I've written sf and fantasy for publication since 1975...but I've written a lot longer than that. I have a background in Mediterranean archaeology, Latin, Greek, that sort of thing; my hobbies are travel, photography, planetary geology, physics, pond-building for koi...I run a marine tank, can plumb most anything, and I figure-skate.

I believe in the future: I'm an optimist for good reason---I've studied a lot of history, in which, yes, there is climate change, and our species has been through it. We've never faced it fully armed with what we now know, and if we play our cards right, we'll use it as a technological springboard and carry on in very interesting ways.

I also believe a writer owes a reader a book that has more than general despair to spread about: I write about clever, determined people who don't put up with situations, not for long, anyway: people who find solutions inspire me.

My personal websites and blog: http://www.cherryh.com

http://www.cherryh.com/WaveWithoutAShore

http://www.closed-circle.net

Jorge moved to the UK at age seven from Chile, where he was born. He is tri-lingual, having lived in the UK and Mozambique, speaking fluent English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Jorge came up through the ranks in various high street retail stores until he became a Security Manager for a leading high street book seller and then various roles as a Senior Retail Loss Prevention Investigator at a national level.

In April 2006, after seventeen years in retail fraud investigations, he started his own private investigator agency, Allied Detectives (UK) and Salgado Investigations (Chile) specialising in corporate investigations, surveillance, process serving and tracing.

Jorge is a founder member of e-Legal Gathering, an online discussion forum for private investigators. He has an Edexcel BTEC Advanced Private Investigation Level 3 Diploma and a BTEC award in Investigative Interviewing. He has served on WAPI's Governing Council and is a Fellow, after having served as General Secretary for a year.

Jorge is also penning his debut Science Fiction novel, "The Smoke In Death's Eye." Available for pre-order from Amazon. The novel features a Private Investigator in a futuristic (2118 AD) London setting :- "In a dystopian future of nanotechnology and ubiquitous CCTV, a Private Investigator, tortured by the disappearance of his wife, investigates a series of brutal slayings".

Future books planned are The Zen of Shoplifting and The Zen of Sleuthing, available for pre-order from Amazon.

He also enjoys writing poetry (his works can be found in the poetry section of his writing forum) and is an amateur photographer.

His twitter page is @J_SalgadoReyes.