Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am 64 years of age; I live in Somerset England now with my wife Lesley. I have a son Nicholas and he has a gorgeous partner. I have two beautiful Granddaughters and they live in Birmingham England, where I originally sat and wrote the books I have written. We moved down south this year because we were evicted from our house in Birmingham after a long fight with the mortgage company. I was a self-employed landscape gardener for many years. I enjoyed the freedom and open air. But when the work dropped off in the winter months and the weather was against me, I stayed at home and carried on writing.
The first book I started many years ago. I owned a garage in a small village and when my workforce went home I stayed late and wrote my first story “My Friends Wives and Me” on my first computer, then I, unfortunately, went with an American publisher called “Trafford” and to be honest after a few years had passed and nothing had happened I lost interest in writing. Some years passed and eventually, I wrote the sequel “Many Returns” then, years past again, nothing was sold in America because (as far as I was concerned) it was too expensive for a paperback book. I challenged them but nothing was done. I had the idea of changing the name and the cover and then I put it on Amazon. Nothing has ever happened really but I do love to write. I wrote a children’s book and did nothing about it. Then I had an idea about short stories, so I wrote one, then another and another, eventually I worked my way up to eight turning them into a series which has been published. Then I couldn’t stop. I carried on and now I have written 32 short stories all on the same theme with an idea to carry it on into a full story. All the stories are linked to each other, each tale telling a different story that comes to a dramatic climax.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Hoody and His Gyal” My son is 32 years old and he talks like all the gangsters and hard men from the hood (Not that my son is a gangster or a hard man) but it’s the language he and his mates have grown up with “enit!”
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really, I get a thought in my head and put it on my phone. I write the biggest load of garbage as fast and as much as I can before I forget it all and then when it quiet, I sit and decipher it all with more thoughts and ideas.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
This may sound strange but I don’t think I have ever read a story from beginning to end and I haven’t picked up many books.
What are you working on now?
Nothing at the moment I have had to get a job to try and survive for the time being as we had to move into a static Caravan.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I did all the usual stuff but to be honest I haven’t spent a lot of time on it.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Just keep writing if that’s what you want to do and be inspired by the thought of writing a best seller and the fame?
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I’ve never had any, to be honest. My family and friends like most, don’t believe I will ever make money from it and I’m wasting my time. They haven’t read anything I have written.
What are you reading now?
Nothing except, bills, bills and more bills!
What’s next for you as a writer?
To be honest I don’t know. If I had the time I would finish my short stories, write the third part of the trilogy I started some years back.
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?
Only one, “How to build a boat.”
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