My name is Paul Jones and I am a full time writer. I have been published by several magazines over the years, I have a completed novel (available from Lulu.com http://www.lulu.com/content/1069774 ) that I am currently trying to market as well as a second one under way and a third that I am in the process of plotting out.

I am origionally from Wales, UK, but I have lived in the US for the past ten years and I currently live outside of Las Vegas.

I can be contacted at Theoneisis2@sbcglobal.net

My passion is ...

my writing

I know too much about ...

you can never know "too much"

My parents always told me ...

when your dead, life just ain't worth living (thanks Dad)

My childhood ambition ...

to be a writer

My favorite memory ...

a walk along the river with my dog and a good friend/ the first day I saw my wife

Why I write ...

it is a drive within that becomes extremely annoyed when I don't listen to what it has to say.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

the A.R.C. of F. Paul Wilson's latest novel "Bloodline"

My first job ...

as an assistant to the local milkman when I was about twelve

My best moment ...

having my first article published in a very big magazine :)

My inspiration ...

I had to think about this one but I guess it will have to be J.K. Rowling. I have never read any of her books but she is an author who is driven and has never let any thing get in her way.

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My father

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The day before my Dad died, I got to tell him a few things I probably should have said more than the one time.

I was living in Los Angeles with my wife. Dad was back home in Wales with the rest of my family, suffering from terminal lung cancer. In the five years since I had moved to the U.S., whenever I called to say hello, it would always be him who picked up the phone. Invariably, after a few short words of greeting, he would say the same thing: "You want to talk to your mother?" "Sure", I would say, "put her on."

The call from my sister didn't exactly come as a surprise, she had ju...

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