Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve been a science teacher, BBC web producer, doorman, photographer & builder’s labourer. I have a Zoology degree from Cardiff University in south Wales and have travelled the world looking for wildlife.
I’m an award-winning writer and poet who has been widely published all over the world. I’m also the founder of the international Welsh Poetry Competition. I work full time as a book publisher and writer. I’ve written a crime thriller trilogy where I hope to give readers the same thrills and excitement that you get from reading Lee Child and James Patterson.
If you enjoy crime thrillers, action, adventure, murder mystery, black comedy, technothrillers with bouts of juicy sex you can visit my writing website – www.david-lewis.co.uk.
For book publishing help visit – www.publishandprint.co.uk.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Going Off Grid, a new poetry collection.
This contemporary collection by one of Wales’ most prolific poets focuses on digital capitalism, the negative influence of big tech and our addiction to data. Lewis is deeply concerned with the negative direction mankind is taking and cares passionately about helping to steer us all back to a far simpler, happier place in the far more important offline world. Death and depression, as well as love and nature, are also ever-present themes and the whole package is tightly woven together with some subtle, yet haunting, photographs. “An epic tour de force of modern poetry. The opening poem, (Diet), is reminiscent of T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ and this author’s ‘Roadkill‘, but this time focuses on digital capitalism. Lewis is primarily concerned with the madness and addiction pervading our online worlds while we neglect the more important offline. The title is a hope rather than a statement.
“The book includes a handful of vignettes and reflections of the author’s immediate locale edited in the style of Julia Margaret Cameron that provide an added texture and insight to the text. Another piece of top drawer writing by one of Wales’s best poets.” – Andrew Davies
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Nope.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Gary Snyder, Frederick Forsyth, Charles Bukowski, Wilbur Smith, Ann Sexton, John Evans
What are you working on now?
A second haiku collection.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
No idea, I just write. I’m quite well known in Wales but haven’t got around to promoting my stuff elsewhere really. I should do…
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Read.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Show don’t tell.
What are you reading now?
The Tomb of the Inflatable Pig (about Paraguay).
What’s next for you as a writer?
A gritty novel based in south Wales.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
“How to survive on a desert island” and “How to get off a desert island”
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