K J Parker is Tom Holt...

After exhaustive research, that being the quick poll with 4 votes, reading one post on a forum and a interview, I'm outing Mr Holt. That or dribbling shite.

Here's my evidence:

1. Someone mentioned on the sffworld.com forums years ago that K J Parker may be Tom Holt.
2. Parker's bio say he/she/it are married to a solicitor. Tom Holt was a lawyer.
3. The quick poll. 50% for K J Parker being Tom Holt sways me even if I was one of those two votes;)
4. Tom Holt interviewed Parker for Subpress...
5. This Holt interview. The following quotes are pretty telling.

Which Internet sites do you list as your Favourites? Apart from the dazzling plethora of Tom Holt fan sites, you mean? A couple of engineering discussion forums

Hello The Engineer Trilogy.

Old technology - a water-wheel or a longbow or a scythe or a blacksmith's anvil - has beauty and grace, and more often than not is a masterpiece of ergonomic design, refined by centuries of evolution. Modern stuff is just grey boxes.

 Longbow, blacksmith's anvil sound familiar?

Now I could be way off base and just dribbling shite like I said but my main point here is to say that I find it very annoying that who ever K J Parker is, she/he/it has chosen to be so mysterious about there sex and who they really are. WTF is up with that? Do readers really care what sex the author is or what other books said author has written?

Clearly I do but only as far as I like to know who the freaking author actually is!

End rant