Author · Developer · Creator
A storyteller who builds and a builder who tells stories. Writer of the Lord of Water trilogy, founder of Turquoise Era, and restorer of an estuary on the NSW North Coast. This is the journey.
Follow the waterThe Journey
Not a career path — a waterline. Each bend fed the next. Curve the water, don't drain it straight.
The Escape
COVID closed one life and opened another. A new operating base: four acres, an airport up the road, the world within reach — and land held by six-generation farming families alongside 40,000 years of Yaygal ancestry. The right place. The right people started arriving.
The Build
A development designed like a garden — because it is one. Gardens complete, ideas still growing. Proof that building and restoring aren't opposites.
The Ecosystem
The name that holds it all — publishing, projects, and the philosophy underneath them. Everything I make ships under a turquoise flag.
The Story
A spiritual sci-fi trilogy written through pure discovery — draw boats, dorsal pilots, and a purpose that spans lifetimes: protect the water planets. Books I and II live on Amazon; Book III on the way. Read Chapter 1 free at lordofwater.com.
The Tools
Software for the thing I actually do: naming a dream, breaking it into moves, and building it in the open. Made for dreamers who act.
On the Horizon
[Placeholder — give me the one-liner, Mike, and this becomes real.]
On the Horizon
[Placeholder — the Angel story in your words goes here.]
On the Horizon
[Placeholder — what Bionian is becoming.]
Curve the water. Don't drain it straight.
Through our land runs an easement that once did what easements do — hurry the rain away. We're reshaping it into an estuary: curves and ponds that hold water long enough to build life. A rainforest in the making. A food forest for whoever comes after. A nature strip for the life of this planet.
It's the same idea as the Lord of Water trilogy, at one property's scale — Mike King's part and happy contribution. Leave the water better than you found it — because you're the one inheriting it.
Projects at Hand
Trilogy
The Blue-3 lifetime, told in full. Written, in edit, headed for publication — completing the trilogy before Christmas.
lordofwater.com →Publishing
Independent publishing done properly — ISBNs, wide distribution, audiobooks with human narration on the way.
tqera.com →Land
Restoring an easement into a living water system — documented as it grows, from first curve to first fruit.
Follow the blog →Software
The dream-to-done tool, built in the open as part of the Building Dreams journey.
mydreams.app →Development
The development-as-garden on the North Coast — including a certain Beer Bus, co-piloted with my son Liam.
pacificwoodsestate.com.au →Words & Video
The real editorial conversations behind the trilogy, published as a blog series — feeding a YouTube lore channel to come.
Read the letters →Readers, builders, gardeners, dreamers who act — the right people keep finding their way here. Join them.
mike@tqera.com