Hello, I'm Victoria David. I self-published my first novel 'Dolman' in June 2008. Because the story is very topical I took the view that it would take too long to find a traditional publisher, volumes of work making this a very lengthy process. So in order that it was not 'dated' before it saw the light of day I used a small company called Diadem Books run by editor Charles Muller. Dr Muller is not normally a lover of editing fiction, so I was delighted when he liked Dolman and agreed to read the manuscript. The book was published in June using American publishers iUniverse. The whole process was a huge learning curve, but very rewarding.

Inspired by many and varied news items concerning human/animal experiments and warnings surrounding climate change, 'Dolman' is a sci-fi fantasy which weaves the two concepts together to form a plot which may be closer to what could happen than we might care to believe. Sebastian James is an obsessive scientist charged with creating a 'new human' capable of withstanding the onslaught of a future hostile environment. Dolman spans thirty-six years, moving from Portsmouth to the waters of the Mediterranean via the beauty of Scottish Highland lochs, following the lives of the people touched by the Phoenix Project, the fate of the hybrids and the effect they have on their human contacts.