Hello everyone,
This is my first day here so take it easy on me :-)
I'm a novelist with six published works so far, and another due out in a few weeks. One of my books, Flank Street, is currently free. You can grab your free copy here:- http://a-fwd.to/3FxHVEh
I've always written, as far back as I can recall anyway. Until 2011, that writing was just for me, or as rambling letters to friends, and travelogues to family. I never thought about why, or if others did similarly, and the thought of publishing never entered my head.
Since I left England in 1979, I've travelled widely, collecting experiences, people, and places as I did so. From the blood-soaked streets of Kampala, the polluted dust bowls of the Sahara, or the pristine ice floes of the Antarctic, I've gathered and filed them away. Some have recently squeezed through the bars of insecurity and are now at large in the pages of my first novels. If you recognise yourself in one of my books, you only have yourself to blame.
Although I grew up in Norfolk, UK, I never felt truly at home until I lived in Australia, and that is no doubt the reason my first four published novels are set there. All of my books this far have some element of fact in them. I guess it's hard for any writer not to include events from their life. Our experiences shape our thoughts and the words and actions of our characters.
I sometimes wish I'd become a novelist earlier in life, but then if I had, I wouldn't have the range of characters and events that I do now.
I now live quietly in a forest house in Germany with five French hens, two Mexican dogs, two Irish cob, and a mermaid who I found on a deserted beach in Bequia.
You can find out more about my books here http://www.ajsendall.com