Neil Vickers Author Bio:
Born in the late fifties, went to school in Derby England, mainly midstream education. It was a lack of concentration that made me lose my place at the top grammar school, the exams went disastrously wrong. It was never a good thing asking me to concentrate, my mind would always be somewhere else, thinking all the time about other things. Being at school was a secondary chore in place of a primary, although I was always marked good for turning in every day. I had little absences from school but juggled time between school and play. I was a bit arty and crafts at school was a subject I enjoyed, my teacher more or less begged me to go to art school as he said I was his best student in years but the lure of a city and guilds apprenticeship in plumbing and heating with wages outweighed the other of five years at art school with no incentive beyond that.
Nature was what I enjoyed when I was younger and all the books I read would have been linked to birds or animals. My early days would be spent walking in the countryside with my friends to see nature thriving around us. I still enjoy going out and getting as close to nature as I can.
I was busy after my apprenticeship finished whilst I tried to start my own business as a self-employed plumber installing central heating systems. I eventually moved into building work, a fairly natural progression into property and creating a portfolio of property rentals.
I started to write manuscripts on different subjects without publishing any of the unfinished work due to my workload that I had created, and time was not a luxury I could afford. I had not read novels as I was more interested in nature and I was fascinated by nature and its diversity. I would watch programs on animals, the ocean and its inhabitants, birds of all kinds from the biggest hawks and vultures down to the smallest hummingbirds. Reptiles were always something that I enjoyed reading about and the environments they lived in.
I spent the last thirty years building new houses and large care homes for the elderly and running the day-to-day administration of caring for the elderly residents. I started writing books again with a view to publishing them after the pandemic (Covid), it had given me a new lease of life to start writing again but this time not to just write a manuscript but to write it and publish it.
I seem to have been born with a gift of a creative mind and photographic memory, the books I write just seem to flow out my head as I am writing them. I seem to be able to write in any genre including fiction of course. I consider myself lucky as I have never read any fiction books. I find I do not affiliate my writing with any other author and do not mimic the style of any. I do my best to make a book exciting to read and entertaining for the reader.
I have two books currently in the worldwide market True Love Unlimited and True Love Unlimited The Conclusion. The latest book True Love Unlimited The Conclusion has won the gold prize for its genre Romance, Action, Thriller and I thank Chick Lit Café for giving me the first prize for my book.
I have just completed my new sci-fi book The Sixth Dimension Defined and will be published. We aim to release the new book for sale early July 2024.
What inspires you to write?
I just fancied writing an Action, Romance Thriller.
Tell us about your writing process.
I write long hand, I was bought up with long hand and I do not use a computer. My long hand is then typed up in the office into a typed manuscript.
For Fiction Writers: Do you listen (or talk to) to your characters?
No, the characters are already in my head so what they have to say just pops into my head.
Who are your favorite authors?
I do not have one, the books I have read were mostly at university. All my experience with writing comes from within myself and I am not influenced by any other writing.
What genres do you write?
Romance, Action, Thriller and Sci-Fi
How did you choose the genre(s) you write?
I did just fancy writing an action romance and space has always fascinated me and I always wanted to write a Sci-Fi and define whats in space without having to visit it.
What three things are on your writing desk at any given moment?
Book
Paper and a pen
What hobbies do you have when you need a break from writing?
I have other businesses and if I get the time I like to go on holidays, go on days out and for meals out along with walking in the countryside getting close to nature.
What formats are your books in?
eBook, Print
Website(s)
Home Page Link
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