: About Me

I have been a writer for most of my life, and entered the publishing industry directly after leaving technical school in 1967. Over the next twenty years or so, I worked as a technical author on various projects for blue-chip companies. These included military publications for the UK army and navy, aerospace projects including Concorde, and manuals for complex industrial production equipment.

In 1990 I formed my own technical publications company, and over the next fourteen years developed that into a small multi-national group with offices both here in the UK, and in the USA. As well as producing content, my company also developed Interactive Electronic Technical Publications for viewing on screen.

Although the majority of my work has been produced to a client brief, the first book I had published in my own right was called "The Porsche Catalogue" detailing the history of Porsche using illustrations and photographs from their brochures over the years. In 2004 I decided to take early retirement from the commerce side of the business, and return to writing.  As well as producing articles and short stories for publishing on-line, I am about three-quarters through writing my first novel. 

I am a Trustee on the board that looks after an historic building in my home town of Bath, and I recently published a history of the building, which is available from all good bookshops and on-line sites like Amazon.

My passion is ...

Music

I know too much about ...

Trivia

My parents always told me ...

Never to give up

My childhood ambition ...

To run my own business

My first job ...

Paper Boy

My best moment ...

Waking-up in the morning

My inspiration ...

My Wife

Politics, News & Issues > Soccer News & Opinion English Premier League preview for September 11-12

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Despite the elevation of the glorious Hoops to their rightful elite place once more, I have had little interest in the English Premier League throughout the summer. In fact, the news this morning (13th August 2011) that it all kicked off today (other than in Tottenham, where it all kicked-off the previous Saturday instead) came as a bit of a shock.  Why has this crept up on me? Well a little thing known as the cricket season has, quite rightly, somewhat occupied my thoughts these last few months; for those unfamiliar with the name, it is the true National Spor...

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