If you have read 'On Writing' you will know Stephen King was hit by a truck and his life pivoted and he became Stephen King, the Writer.’ In his own life a diagnosis of MS, meant Courtney took similar decisions. Embarking upon a full time life as a writer has not provided the royalties he once earned during a 20 year IT career, but... It was his editor, Sophie, who gave him the impetus, - she berated him - to enter a poem in the competition, and his colleagues at the Montpellier Writers' Group in Cheltenham first set him out on the path of self belief. Seven years in the British Army's Intelligence Corps was the open mine from which this poem was hewn. His military poems are clustered in the fourth volume of his anthologies. Find them on gecpresse.co.uk. Green Eye Coeur Presse is an Intelligence Corps pun. He has two novels on kindle, he says, and so on, and so on. ‘Maybe the dark myelin lining of MS has a silver cloud after all’.Two growing sons, Seth and Alf, a large German Shepherd Zen, are the joy of his soul.