John Gillard is a writer, designer, and economic and social history graduate who lives and works in Brighton, England. He has a love of general knowledge and the history of espionage, which he likes to combine with his past experience of using the Japanese process-improvement tools and techniques of Kaizen and Six Sigma to solve problems in the world of business. He is the author of the Creative Writer's Notebook, Just Draw One Thing Today, and The Very Short Story Starter: 101 Flash Fiction Prompts.