Roderick Craig Low, the elder son of Scottish parents, was born and brought up in England. On leaving grammar school, he lived in Scotland for about five years before moving south to Yorkshire where he raised a family. It was then that he was able to apply his liking for language to his professional life, trading his role as a computer consultant for that of a technical author providing manuals to support software systems and business processes for many ‘big name’ companies. In 1994, he remarried. His book, ‘Writing User Documentation’, was published by Prentice Hall that same year. Creative writing, however, was the ultimate goal but the pressures of everyday life prevented its realisation. He moved to France in 2003 and, after a few years, found opportunities to devote more time to this activity in addition to the demands of the ‘day job’ and a two-acre garden – not to mention the delights of living in rural France. A first novel, ‘Three Hundred Hours’, was published in 2009. He has also written a number of short stories for conventional and on-line publication.