Hello, and thank you for visiting my site. I hope that you'll return often and always find something of interest about my world and what inspires me to pick up a pen. (This is a figure of speech, unfortunately. My handwriting is terrible!) Here's what I've been up to recently...

A double-page spread!

I couldn’t have been happier when Laura Coventry contacted me about writing the above feature for The People’s Friend. For one thing, it gave me the opportunity to share photographs that I had been unable, for cost reasons, to include in the book. For another, of course, it spread the word to a much wider audience that I could have reached on my own.

The interview was conducted on the telephone, which explains why a couple of anomalies have crept in. United States law WOULD have allowed me to buy a gun, had I so wished, although alcohol was a definite no no. It also occurred to me when I read the piece that our Greyhound bus tickets would have cost under $100 rather than under £100. The difference isn’t anything like as great now as it was back then, when a pound was worth about $2.40.

However, I’m very pleased with the presentation and hope that it will strike a chord with all who read it and maybe, just maybe, inspire them to purchase a copy. Hope springs eternal, as they say!

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