David McKay is not my real name it's always been my writer's pen name. I loved writing ever since I was a kid, wrote over 1000 pages plus for what started as a Social Studies project just turned into one very long one. That was in the mid-80s with no computers about, so I had to use paper. Still love writing on paper sometimes. When I had pocket money I either brought a lot of pads and pens, and then Doctor Who books and famous five. I wanted to be a writer, especially in science fiction or just fiction.
I always wrote David McKay as my main character. I wanted to be him growing up. My alter ego so to speak. I wanted to be a sports star like I wrote him as, either Rugby, League, Cricketer. Or a hero of my stories.
And 1974 is the year I was born, so I used that as well.