British by birth and an avid young reader, Ian Copsey had early aspirations as an author but realised the need to support a family. He has spent 27 years living in Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan, where he now lives) gaining understanding of cultures and how, at a basic level, we are all similar at our core. Finally, Ian found time to write his first novel, The Game Master, formulated by his interests in how children learn to perceive the world around them. What makes us so different? Why do we think differently? How or what, when we are growing up from being a baby to an adult, shapes our ideas, thoughts and ways of doing things? There are many reasons. Some are positive and some are not. I am a closet psychologist and enjoy observing how apparent different cultures are really much the same, their beliefs coming from a similar source but expressed in a different "language." The Game Master explores just some of these issues within its storyline and my next book will delve more deeply into perceptions that the human animal that can be so cruel but sometimes so pure...