John Holland

John Holland was born in Yorkshire, in 1966, the son of an RAF nurse and an Intelligence officer. After a somewhat eratic education, John left school at 15 before embarking on a number of careers including commercial art, theatre design and worked for a period in Television and film. He has always been interested in writing and was first published in Pentacle magazine, after submitting articles dealing with Metaphysics, his principal interest laying in the correlations between Science and 'Magic'. He has also studied Political Philosophy as well as having an interest in psychology and the Paranormal and has written many essays on these subjects over the years. John's first attempt at publishing came in 2013 with a children's book called An Impossible King - his own take on the Arthurian tale, told through the character of a young Merlin. Later he decided to develop some of his earlier 'Supernatural Science-Fiction' short stories, featuring Paranormal Investigator 'Jaysmith'. Inspired by writers such as John Wyndham and Nigel Kneale, creator of Quatermass, the first of these, The God Machine, sets the Jaysmith Biography series in motion.