Hi. I’m Oliver Lugg. I’m 24 and live in Hampshire, southern UK (when I’m not at university in Bath, also southern UK). I write books and make music.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a passion for writing. This worrying habit gave the world several poorly thought out early attempts at novels, with subjects ranging from cabbage-based secret agencies to derivative time travel epics oft-maligned for featuring impossible tree toboggans and misspellings of mosquito. Next time will be different, of course.
Music arrived in my life much later, when I started teaching myself piano at about 11 years old. I soon extended this to composition. At first this didn’t go well either, but owing mostly to the fact that a piece of music can be completed far more quickly than a novel, I’ve improved to become the head of music and sound for the Thrive project, where I’ve busied myself writing musical cues for different parts of the game. I still write music outside of it too, but this doesn’t tend to garner as much attention.
I have several other interests besides my main occupations. Art, for instance — the header image is an oil pastel drawing, and every other image on this site is my handiwork. I’m also studying mathematics at university. While perhaps not my first choice for a career, let’s face it, I’m more likely to actually get a job this way.