I’m the ‘decipherer, editor, and translator’ of The Earthy Language Cycle, a series of ‘novels’ (in the original sense of the word) set in our past, present, and future and based upon the trunkful of yellowed documents ‘acquired’ by my paternal-great-grandfather, George William Scarcliff, a humble postal clerk in nineteenth-century Nottingham, England.
That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
I read widely, but I’m especially drawn to works that help us elude the confines of our own particular culture: alt-history, cross-cultural adventure, fantasy, magical realism, science fiction, speculative fiction, and the like.
I owe any success I’ve had in my endeavors to my wife, Joy Acosta y Salvador. She’s a joyous Filipino-American, and I’m a bemused Anglo-American, and our union has been a cross-cultural adventure in its own right, producing, amongst our many other small triumphs, our three most excellent sons.