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Family and Personal life
Bradley George Wayne Patterson was born in Pietermaritzburg, on 01 September 1980. in the Old Grays hospital. The family moved to Empangeni in 1985, when his father, George (a mechanic) took a job on a farm nearby.

The Crusader and the Dreamer
Patterson displayed a creative flair at a young age, often entertaining his friends with his comical peronality. But it was only in his teens that he discovered his ability to tell stories, which would often become the focus of his highschool English esays. In 1995 he came into possession of and old computer, and immediately set about writing short exerpts of stories. The most promising of which would become The Crusader and the Dreamer. A tale about a man who through his dreams became connected with a world on another plane of existence, and soon finds himself sucked into it. He finds himself an unwitting beacon of hope to the oppressed people of that world and their heroine. The work would sadly never see the light of day, since in 2001, after years of work, the computer it was written on succumbed to its age and crashed.

The Burden of Jonah Blondel
It would be years until Patterson revisited his passion. In 2009, he wrote a 30 page draft of what would become The Burden of Jonah Blondel. A tale about a man who has lived for millenia as the last survivor of an ancient race pre-existing man. Blondel finds himself wandering the world bored and lonely, until he meets a young woman who possesses an incredible and extremely dangerous power that she should not be able to possess. Jonah finds himself tasked with protecting her from elements who would use her power to complete a millenia old attack on mankind. The story would remain unfinished until 2015 when it was finally finished and prepared for publication. The Burden of Jonah Blondel will be published on Amazon Kindle on 5 October 2015.

The Last Watch and Other Such Tales
To pass time between working on The Burden of Jonah Blondel, Patterson often freewrites short essays, written as though taken from a larger work. One such essay called The Last Watch will appear in 2016 in a compilation of essays titled The Last Watch and Other Such Tales.