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| May 23 1965 |
| Norfolk, England |
| I'm a middle-aged English graduate, avid reader & lifelong writer. Owing to chronic crises of confidence that strike at around 10,000 words, I've never finished anything longer than a novella. My primary goal is to finish writing a novel. My secondary goal is to polish that novel until it's publishable. My tertiary goal is to become published and sell at least 10 copies of my novel to complete strangers. My self-imposed deadline for achieving all of the above is October 2020. |
| I predominantly read novels (literary, historical & crime/thrillers/mysteries) so those are the things I also like to write |
| I write character-driven books re. how crisis impacts normal folk. Lacking a poet's soul, I avoid rich imagery/purple prose |
| Reading prose fiction; visiting Rome; Italian>English translation; European history (especially Iron Age, medieval, WW1/WW2); Northern Soul dancing; 1940s/50s R&B; walking the dog (Norman, the Border Terrier); exploring England's landscape & heritage |
| Classics; contemporary literary fiction; historical fiction; crime/thrillers/mysteries, plus all of the above in Italian. |
| All Jane Austen's novels; Middlemarch; Harry Potter books; A Prayer for Owen Meany; Accordian Crimes; 1984; The Secret History; Matthew Shardlake books; Marcus Didius Falco novels; Cicero trilogy by Robert Harris; anything by Kate Atkinson |
| Dead: Swift; Austen; G. Eliot; A. Bronte; Wilkie Collins; Tolstoy; Dostoevsky; Chekhov; Orwell; R. Rendell Alive: John Irvine; Annie Proulx; CJ Sansom; Robert Harris; JK Rowling; Lindsey Davis; William Boyd; David Mitchell; Neil Gaiman; Kate Atkinson |
| I'm not much of a poetry reader; most of the bits I like stem from those I studied at Uni, namely: Dante; John Donne; TS Eliot; Ted Hughes; Emily Dickinson |
| When we're no longer able to change a situation we're challenged to change ourselves (Frankl) Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances...(Frankl) |
| Early (esp. female) R&B (Etta James/Ruth Brown/LaVern Baker etc); Billie Holiday; Ella Fitzgerald; Big Maybelle; Northern Soul; ska/reggae/rocksteady; Dean Martin; Bob Dylan; Junior Walker; Stevie Wonder; Stax and Philly soul; Motown. |
| The African Queen; Hitchcock movies; The Truman Show; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Toni Servillo movies; Calamity Jane & other classic musicals; films about 'the righteous among the nations (e.g. Schindler's List; In Darkness; Perlasca) |
| UK and European crime dramas; Vera; Shetland; Endeavour; Broadchurch; Scandinavian noir; Poirot; The Walking Dead; The Vikings; Firefly; Rome; Wolf Hall; travel shows and history programmes |
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