Background: |
|
Jack McGreed was borned the 18th April, 1972 at home and was an only child. He grow up in Cardiff in Wales with his parents, who never got married. He grow up as an charming young man with a taste for the ironic and sadonic in life. He got a sharp wit, and got a bad habit to talk before thinking. As young he didn't touch a book before he was about 11 years old, where he found a book about a girl who was transported to the future and since then he have been hooked on Sci. Fi. and Fantasy stories and movies. He started to write small stories when he was 13 years old, but had always a problem about keeping his interest on it and never finished any of them. In 1987 he started an education with computer, which was just starting to show it's strength in the moden society. In the summer of 1988 he, who at the time was 16, and some friends visited USA in the summer vacation. There he met Susan Carr, an 18 year old French girl, who lived there as an exchange student. They fell in love and Jack decided to stop his studies in Wales and moved to the United Stats. There he got a job at an newspaper as a newsboy. He and Susan Carr lived together until March, 1991 where an car-accident killed Susan and wounded Jack badly. It took him a long time to get over the accident, both mental and physical. In the time between the accident and his rehabilitate he stopped writing and even reading Sci. Fic., turning it down in the light of reality. In 1993, 2 years after, he started to write again. His stories was still Sci. Fi. and Fantasy, but for most of them now, they always had a cruel or sad ending. Life had sat it marks on him. In 1994 he started working as a free-lance journalist on the Bulletin Times in Manhattan and he travel around the world. In 1996 his mother became very ill and he took an long vacation and returned home to Wales. He stayed there for about 6 months, before returning to the Stats. In the meantime, the newspaper he had worked for, had gone bankrupt and he had to find a new job. He moved to Phoenix and took a job as barkeeper. A couple of weeks later he met a couple of people from a local roleplaying group and they encouraged him to join them for a game. Jack became very interested in this kind of game and formed a new group, who calling themself 'The Panthers' whos first goel was to have a great time. But after some time playing and working with it, they started to make things for RPG and computer which they sold and they established the firm, BlueStar Inc. At that time BlueStar Inc. have an staff of 4 people: In 1997 Jack discovered the wonders of the internet and IRC. In the daily he worked with the others in firm, and in his spare time he and maybe some of the others, surfed around the net getting informations and talked to some of the people around there. He started making the stories about 'Galtian BlueStar' after having visited a IRC channel called #KRYNN and reading the books about the DragonLance. At this time he and his friends is trying to make and generator for CyberPunk, another type of roleplaying. This was the information about this person. Further update might come later. This description is of course all fiction about my alias. ;) |
Go to Previous Author _______________ Return to Author List _______________ Go to Next Author