The Troublemaker

About the author: Maxwell (Max, if you value your life) Stuart Sims was born in Mount Gambier. He went to the Helen Street Infant School, the Wehl Street primary school, the Penola Area School and Mount Gambier High. He studied electronics at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and worked in that field for more than a decade before switching to journalism, both newspaper and freelance. Then he joined Crawford Productions as a staff writer on the Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police series. Three years later saw him as PR/publications manager with the Victorian Health Commission and later a projects officer with the Victoria Police. He played baseball for Caulfield and Malvern, was an A-grade pistol shooter, flirted with skydiving (retired scared) and was a captain in the Army Reserve. He lives in Melbourne with wife Vanessa and their children Todd and Stuart.