In truth, Wayne has been imagining science fiction most of his life, where he first started writing while at school, and his passion was only ever going to grow and flourish over time.
Earth Day, a post-apocalytpic adventure, was Wayne’s first serious foray into science fiction, as a self-published author, combining his natural talent for storytelling with his desire to ground his ideas, tethering them to what is known, while shaping them around people as much as science and technology; past, present and beyond.
What made the implausible seem plausible, and believable Wayne imagined, was seeing — in this case, reading — how someone else experienced incredible things, often regular people swept up by and along with irregular circumstances.
Since the debut of Earth Day, he’s published Remembrance, Lucidity, and A Darkening of Fortune.
Wayne is the Managing Director and founder of Octane Interactive Limited, where he’s been building precision workflows for small and mid-sized businesses since the late nineties, and has written a white paper: “How the Hidden Costs of Inefficient Workflows Drain SME Profits — and How to Fix Them”
Wayne’s clients see him more as a partner than a supplier, which says everything about the kind of service he provides.
I love what I do. It’s as simple as that. That pleasure in what I do is key to the quality of the service my clients get from me.
Wayne is also the founder of Under Cloud, a personal knowledge management web app with the goal of making great research unforgettable.
It’s been a journey that’s involved writing a literature review (using Under Cloud), touching on: berrypicking by Bates, M. J. (1989); information encountering by Erdelez, S. (1999); and the work of psychologist Gloria Mark, who’s spent decades studying people studying.
What’s interesting is the science behind these problems, and I stumbled on some of it by accident, while building the best product I could.
I have grand plans for Under Cloud, and everything it’s doing at the moment is the foundation to everything else in the future.
