I love to write. I have been writing for years. Composition was my favourite subject at school where I could use my imagination. I have always loved history and westerns. Growing up in Hay, NSW, I often watched westerns daily. I became fascinated with the Wild West as well as historical war movies. Leaving school, I wrote a series of short stories before focusing on the American Civil War and history as a whole. Following watching a documentary on President Abraham Lincoln's journey to Gettysburg in November, 1863 and a plot to intercept the train, I got the idea of writing a story on it.