About me

Born in Ottawa, I spent the first nine years of my life in Ontario and Quebec; but my father had the wanderlust, a holdover from his days in the Royal Navy and Merchant Marine during WW II, and we departed Canada for Pakistan in '68. My father was an electrical engineer involved in the completion stages of the thermal power plant in Sukkur (which had been built a few years earlier under Canadian supervision). For several months we lived in the WAPDA colony in Sukkur, but with only one other Canadian family resident there we soon ended up moving to Khaipur, about forty kilometers away, where there were six or seven other expat families on a British-owned compound. We spent a little more than two years in Pakistan, traveled the country extensively, and in many respects enjoyed the experience immensely. From Pakistan we moved to Iran and lived in the city of Isfahan for nearly two years, with occasional visits to Tehran. This was during the time of the Shah, and the country was a far different place from what it is now.

We returned to Canada after our sojourn in Iran and remained home for about a year, then it was off to Tanzania. This was probably the most beautiful of the countries we lived in or visited while overseas -- especially since we were in Moshi, close to Kilimanjaro (in fact, for a month or so after we first arrived we lived in Marangu, which is the primary jumping off point for most expeditions up the mountain). Tanzania was a place of gorgeous vistas and extremely friendly people. The sort of place that evokes all manner of romantic visions, but I'm not sure I fully appreciated it at the time.

After Tanzania we spent another brief period in Canada, then headed back to Pakistan, this time living in Lahore. Living in this northern city was a studied contrast to the time we'd spend in Khaipur, but it's not a time I regret. I think you learn a lot more about yourself when you live immersed in wholly different cultures from your own. Sadly, towards the end of our stay there troubles began to brew and riots broke out. The military coup that would bring down Bhutto (the father) occurred shortly after we left.

Over the years since then I've done lots of things to keep employed, always with the desire to become a full-time published author. I took a step towards the latter when my first novel was published in 2007. Recently I've also completed the follow-up novel as well as a YA fantasy trilogy I hope to get published in the near future.

You can learn more about me and view some of my work at www.freewebs.com/lindsaybrambles

Interests

Road bicycling, mountain biking, cross-country-skiing, reading, movies, motion picture soundtracks, Tintin, comics, animation, science fiction, science, technology, gadgets, painting, interior decorating, home renovation, space, Mars

About my collections

Mostly science fiction, fantasy, and animation in my movie collection (Star Wars, the Matrix, films, superhero movies, Zathura, Contact, Jaws, Mission to Mars, Red Planet, Lost in Space, When Worlds Collide, The Time Machine, Ice Station Zebra, Jurassic Park, War Games, Conan, ET, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Abyss, Serenity, the Harry Potter movies, Hellboy, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Underworld, Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider I & II, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Chronicles of Riddick, Pirates of the Caribbean, Galaxy Quest, Goonies, Fantastic Voyage, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

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