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I was born in London during the Blitz.and was a teacher for 48 years - twenty-three of them in Turkey, where I roost - hopeful, if dyspeptic.

I spend my days writing - but having written that's where it stops, at the moment.

Currently I am writing a series of insane fantasies about a group of kids who crash about amongst various different dimensions, and generally put those worlds to rights with the assistance of Aunt Emmie and Uncle Murgatroyd (Murg), who are fairly dotty - but at least take 'Mouse and the Gang' seriously - which makes a change. The first in the series is more or less finished - the second is presenting problems with regard to a satisfactory, and rousing, conclusion!.

I have also written, "The Definitive History of England" - which isn't. Rather, it is an irreverent "post-1066 and all That" which barges its way through the Monarchs of "The Happy Isle"casting aspersions and other rubbish, and gently kicking sacred cows (I'm fond of cows) - until I come face to face with a few of my own - as in heroes or heroines - and the mood changes. Well it has to, doesn't it? The work is eclectic lavatory reading - mood music, if you will.

Several other bits and pieces - a couple of other novels, and a bouquet (posy) or two of short stories, have become subject to my capricious Muse - but how on Earth does one set about getting the brute published?

I'm invariably broke, so 'vanity publishing' is out - don't care for the idea much either! Foisting unsolicited material onto a possibly reluctant, and surely unsuspecting public seems gratuitous........

Somebody has to pronounce the product worthwhile - but who?

I couldn't find any understandable guidelines on the Simon and Schuster website (I've got cataracts), so I signed up for 'Flapjack' in the hope of learning something in my old age..

I was born in London during the Blitz.and was a teacher for 48 years - twenty-three of them in Turkey, where I roost - hopeful, if dyspeptic. I spend my days writing - but having written that's where it stops, at the moment. Currently I am writing a series of insane fantasies about a group of kids who crash about amongst various different dimensions, and generally put those worlds to rights w... More