I thought of calling this page How much I love Myself, and for a moment even thought of calling it Despicable Me, but that would be stealing wouldn't it. Also, having done some research on author bio's I'm told they should be written in the third person.
Ashley Pollard was born in Malaysia, as her father served during the Malaya Emergency. She's had a number of part time jobs, before finally training to be a mental health nurse, and cognitive behavioural psychotherapist before retiring from the NHS.
She has written for Miniature Wargames, Games Master International, and Battlegames, and was a freelancer for FASA Corps BattleTech game on their 3055 Technical Read Out. She also wrote and designed OHMU War Machine.
Ashley has never separated her love of books from enjoying science fiction in film and television, because being of a certain age means Gerry Anderson is a thing.
Since then she has never looked back.
Addendum
Like most authors she enjoys reading, and has lost count of the number of books she's read over the years.
The first time she became aware that
there was such a thing as a science fiction fan was after reading
Robert A. Heinlein’s, Red Planet and Farmer in the Sky, which she
devoured and immediately bought more of his stories. Other favourite authors from her childhood was Clifford D. Simak's
Cosmic Engineers, and of course A.E. van Vogt's Voyage of the Space
Beagle.
She's never separated her love of books from enjoying science fiction in film and television, especially Forbidden Planet when she first saw it on TV.
She, unashamedly, remains a starry eyed dreamer.
