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Hi and welcome,

This used to be just a website for a beauty business that I run at Yeppoon in Central Queensland.  It still is, but that's only a miniscule part of the website now - less than 1%.

For past visitors, you'll notice that the website has a completely new look and zillions more pages and links.  For visitors who've come from the Xavier T or Xay Tomsen sites, welcome.  I've shut down those sites and amalgamated them here.

Note: for visitors who have come looking for the release dates of the next Khataria novels, take the blog link in the nav bar up top.

The problem was that I have so many interests and occupations, and each of those aspects of my life required their own website.  I was constantly replicating content all over the place.

And then there was all the explaining.  People place you in a box when you tell them your occupation, and everyone - and I mean everyone - boxes me wrong.

"What do you do?" someone would ask, and I would answer in context to the circumstances.  I'm an artist, I would say to someone looking at my art.  I'm a company director with a chain of beauty salons, I would say when performing a treatment.  Novellist, Web developer, historian, signwriter, marketing consultant, virtual world designer, lyricist, nature photographer, on and on and on.  And somewhere in there, a father of 4.

Every answer leaves me feeling understated, or worse, falsely stated, and I don't want to do it anymore, so here it is all mashed together.

There are some common threads.  Five things govern my passions: the human body, creating, history, nature, and IT.  I also believe in true love, and this fact shines throughout all my works.  You can label that construct cheesy or naive; it doesn't worry me.  Popularity with the masses is not something I particularly crave, and nor is amassing money and pretty things.

 So here at Andrew's Place you will find everything that is me, from art to anatomy to virtual worlds to beauty.  Some of it is business, but the vast majority isn't.  Up top in the nav-bar, I've clustered the links and colour coded them to make sense of this huge and complex site.

Enjoy your visit.

Andrew Thompson/Xavier T/Xay Tomsen
Yeppoon Australia