I live in an area of New Zealand called Taranaki, which is built around a huge mountain rising from the middle of a flat plain. Mount Taranaki (2518m) looks a lot like Mount Fuji, and is another almost perfect volcanic cone. I climbed it first when I was thirteen, and I've spent a lot of time on it ever since. We say we live 'under the mountain' if we live in Taranaki.
I had some trouble finding a new pen name for the Kauri Bay romance series. I had already used Eric Thorpe for my popular military thrillers, and another name for my recent science-fiction trilogy, so what to do next? In the end I took the first name from one grandfather and the last name from the other, and tweaked two letters to make the name flow. That's how the name Casey Swan was born. I’m aiming at six books in the Kauri Bay series, and we'll see what happens after that.
As I mentioned in the Author's Note to the first Kauri Bay book (A Bridge Between Hearts), physio yoga over fifty does exist, and I teach it. I have essentially invented this branch of yoga myself, with a lot of help from other yoga teachers, a physio friend and now a chiropractor friend. I did once try to put a few hour-long classes up at YouTube so everyone could benefit, but the cost was too high and there was a large digital hurdle to overcome. I understand something like this is underway in Europe, which is good to hear.
