How I intend to help the Refugees.

Local Stroud Refugee Cafe - Rasmachaz

I am serious about re-orienting my life towards helping others, and I am not alone. I have met so many amazing people trying to do 'something' to make a difference. I left my job to do this. 

There are so many other people doing everything they can to help those in need, particularly refugees fleeing war and persecution. 'Rasmachaz' is a local cafe in Stroud High Street which sells  clothes and other things to support the refugees in the local area. GARAS ('Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers) is a similar venture. 

I aim to raise funds for both of these organisations as well as for international charities such as UNICEF.

I will do this by selling e-books and other things. I aim to use a 'Pay what the reader considers the book is worth' basis and will donate at least 20% of whatever profits I make from each of the books. I need to take some very basic living expenses out but if I make more money then I will donate a higher percentage. 

My first e-book (A science fiction novella called 'The Ascension of Saints') is out in the new year.

This image shows the sort of things that your donations will buy. I am sure the other charities have similar lists. It does make a real difference to peoples lives. I love writing and I am good at it, but really this is about helping people in dire need. It is not about me. I hope you can support me, and more importantly support the refugees.

A Purpose for Science Fiction.

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I have believed that the future will be better than the past. From an early age I have been interested in stories and narratives that paint pictures of how things will be. Perhaps I am naive but I just do not accept that 'what

we have now is the best that things can be'

Science Fiction is about answering the question 'What if things were different?' I used to love Star Trek for it utopia vision. Gene Roddenberry's creation inspired my own ideas. I watched other shows when I was a child too, such as Doctor Who and Blake 7 and many, many more. I wrote stories of my own. The first one when I was aged about six I think. I never really gave up and here I am aged forty two and still writing.

But the world will actually live in is far from perfect. 'The Hunger Games' is perhaps more representative of where we heading.

I left my job to help others prevent this future, or ones like it from becoming reality. I am writer by inclination and now by trade. I intend to use my own SF series 'The Eternity Sequence' to raise funds to help repair the damage others have done. I will do the best job I can. I have other series in the making too. I won't give up.

But we all need to weave a different narrative to the one that pervades our media saturated lives. We have to keep dreaming of better ways of living, of being and 'of becoming'. We must find he solutions to our societies challenges. We need to look inside 'inner space' as much, if not more, that going out into the universe beyond. 

Above all we must keep asking the question "What if things were different?" Because I firmly believe that what we have now is not the best that things can be.