Simon Haynes - Biography
Biography
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Simon Haynes was born in England and moved to Spain with his family in the 1970's. After a childhood in the Spanish school system, two years of Australian high school and two university degrees, there came a fateful day when he threw aside a novel he was reading and declared 'Even I can do better than that!'.
His first story published in a paying market - Sleight of Hand - won the Aurealis Award, Australia's premier award for speculative fiction.
In 2004 Simon was writing his fourth novel when Fremantle Press, an Australian trade publisher, offered a contract for his first three books. They were published over a five-year period, and were distributed by Penguin across Australia and New Zealand.
Simon now has ten Hal Spacejock novels, four Harriet Walsh novels, four Hal Junior novels, three Dragon and Chips novels, three Space Opera novels, two Historical ghost novels and a dozen short stories in print, all of them available in print and ebook. Several of his works are available in translation, including German editions of Hal 1 and 2, an Italian edition of Hal Junior, and French editions of Hal Spacejock and Loss Leader.
Simon is also the programmer and software engineer behind Spacejock Software, and is responsible for popular programs like yWriter and yBook.
He's also a lifelong computer gamer, which is why he's only managed to write around thirty novels and around forty different sofware applications.
In his spare time he runs a woodworking business.
