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.