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Interview with Author – Neil Vickers

Interview with Author – Neil Vickers

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.

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Interview with Author – Sara Brooke

Interview with Author – Sara Brooke

Sara Brooke is an international Amazon bestselling author who writes horror and suspense novels.

A lifelong avid reader of all things scary, Sara’s childhood dream was to write books that force readers to sleep with their lights on.

Her first novel, Still Lake was released Spring 2012.

Sara’s influences and favorite authors include Bentley Little and John Saul.

She is presently working on her next novel.

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Interview with Author – James Blakley

Interview with Author – James Blakley

James Blakley was educated at Missouri Western State College and Washburn University. While at MWSC, he was a local and national award-winning columnist and section editor of “The Griffon-News.” Blakley worked 10 1/2 years as a page and as an Assistant Librarian for the River Bluffs Regional Libraries of St. Joseph, MO. He currently lives in Topeka, KS where he worked for The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library; several years in clerical and customer support capacities for international computer companies, such as EDS and HP; and information-gathering and analysis for numerous local, state, and federal agencies.

Blakley prefers reading history, current events, and allegorical fiction, and runs the gamut cinematically. And besides writing in his spare time, he is an avid pro sports fan who enjoys playing men’s fast-pitch softball.

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Interview with Author – Arthur M Wyatt

Interview with Author – Arthur M Wyatt

Arthur M Wyatt is an ex US Navy Seabee, writer, painter and musician. He is the author of the two book Demon Dead Series, “The Demon Dead: Tres Zombies” and “The Demon Dead: Troubled Waters” as well as the Novella “Soul Survivor”. He lives in upstate South Carolina and owns six Guitars featuring an American Fender Stratocaster, is a voracious reader and has a one thousand book personal library and a vast collection of heavy metal, thrash metal, death metal, prog metal, jazz, blues, big band and zydeco music. He is also a whiskey enthusiast with an affection for good Bourbon and Scotch.

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Interview with Author – Rob Shackleford

Interview with Author – Rob Shackleford

An English-born Australian, Rob Shackleford has lived in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and has travelled extensively internationally.
His varied careers have included Customs Officer, SCUBA instructor, college teacher, and management roles in too many places.
With degrees in the Arts and Business, he is mad keen on travel, SCUBA diving, family history, astronomy and playing the djembe and congas.
Rob is father of two and lives with his partner on Queensland’s Gold Coast.

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