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I've been writing since I can remember, firstly horse stories during summer holidays spent avoiding my annoying brother. I'd return with aching wrist and the car half a ton heavier with all the filled up notepads!
I had wanted to be a journalist when I finished school and whilst still a teenager did a distance learning course. For reasons that will be for my follow up book should a publisher wish to show interest.... I left the Provence and returned to Jersey where I made it as far as the newsroom of a TV station but as the Production Assistant. In charge of timings and working with the editor to put the programme out live daily it was enormous fun and I did continue to learn from the reporters that worked theer. My biggest fountain of knowledge was the editor himself who was both intelligent and talented.
Children and work stalled my development of more than just jottings until I had a chance to break from work and think of something I could actually get to grips with.
'Think of what you know and something no one else has written about' all the great tippers say. So I did.
Now I have a couple of projects on the go and am also writing travel articles following a course through the London School of Journalism. It helped me understand the magazine and paper markets better and focus on key targets.
I'm married, three children, two horses, two dogs, cat and two budgies. I also paint if I have spare time, oil and watercolour. I like to take a favourite picture from a holiday and find it very therapeutic. I'm not too bad at oil, useless at watercolour but it's the enjoyment factor that keeps me trying. I'm learning not to be scared of putting on too much paint to canvas with oil, it seems to give more depth to the picture.
My actual salaried job now is in health and safety, it does all make sense when you understand it, it isn't the bad apple it's made out to be. The people I work with do all have a sense of humour and care about others.
I take a lot of my strength in who I am and what I do from my parents, who were amazing people. My dad always had a project on the go, it kept his brain active and he was busy writing his own memoirs when he died aged 86. Mum was the painter with real talent, we tried to lock her away in her studio as often as we could and I used to love watching her as a child working with her oils.
I believe in living life rather than sitting and watch it go by, though I do always wish there were just a few more extra hours in each day.
I enjoy having all my children home, they're the biggest achievement of my life. I'm so proud of them all, each unique in character but all so capable.
Birth Place: Nottingham, UK
Accomplishments: Taking the plunge and doing it myself. Much harder work but rewards are high when I check and find another book missing from the bookstore in town. Though it would be quite nice to take a back seat occasionally!
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