TJ Clark works as a NGO consultant and tour guide. He's previously worked as a freelance writer, and studies history at James Cook University.He has published several journal articles on the benefits of creative recovery from severe mental illness in Australasian Psychiatry and is currently studying a Bachelor of Arts (History) in Far North Queensland, Australia. By using poetry and prose, he has found an alternative way to cope and manage with his mental health condition.TJ Clark has worked a plethora of jobs, including taxi driver, steel and timber mill worker, truck driver and tour guide. He shares his fictional characters' stories to entertain. His first novel Crack Falling - a suspense fiction - aims to illustrate severe mental illness, and how domestic violence, drug abuse and abuse of power are interrelated and contribute to these conditions, which often are left undiagnosed. In addition, the power of the individual human condition to overcome obstacles is pivotal to his writing style, which is light and dark - a contrast leading to whimsical, entertaining reading.
I loved this book! It's refreshingly different to most mainstream
crime/thriller fiction as it steers well clear of stereotypes and
predictable commercial formula most crime novels follow. It had
plenty of action and genuine characters, and it takes a good hard
look at real life for those on the edge of modern Australian
society. (Angela, Brisbane)
Crack Falling gave me an insight into the daily struggle of someone
whose already fragile grip on life has tipped him over the edge by
dire circumstances and messing with drugs. The fictional story of
Flint and his nemeses, Hughie and Ivan; and his love for Gwennie,
felt very real. (Helga B, Cairns)
I went on the ride with you . . . it blew my hair back made me
laugh and cringe and worry and sigh and laugh again. Like riding a
wild brumby through the scrub on bareback . . . hair-raising and
uncomfortable - but thrilling. (Sam B, Cairns)
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