Location: United Kingdom
Member Since:
Sep. 12, 2014
Tony Whelpton
Biography
I'm an English novelist, and one of the oldest you'll find on Smashwords, although I'm both physically and mentally a lot younger than my Birth Certificate shows! I live in Cheltenham, in the Cotswolds, a beautiful area of the South-West of England, I have a gorgeous wife called Joan, three daughters, two grand-daughters, three grandsons, one great-grand-daughter, one great-grandson and a 19 year old black cat called Fifi.
In an earlier existence which seems to be a lifetime ago I taught French in a university, and if you Google me you will find a whole host of books attributed to me which were designed to help people who were trying to learn French - many of which I published through a company called TD Publications which I founded myself, although I closed that business when I was 75, thinking that it was time for me to retire and lead a quiet life.
But then I started writing fiction and suddenly realised that this is what I should have started doing long ago, and here I am nearly ten years later with six successful novels to my name and still actively writing! The first, Before the Swallow Dares was published in 2012, the second, The Heat of the Kitchen, came out in 2013, and they were followed by Billy's War (2014), its sequel There’s No Pride in Prejudice (2015), A Happy Christmas (2015), and the most recent, A Change of Mind, was launched at a hugely successful event at the Cheltenham Literature Festival (the oldest, largest and most prestigious literary festival in the UK) in October 2017. If you didn't believe what I said above about being younger than my years, six novels in just under six years ought to convince you!
In an earlier existence which seems to be a lifetime ago I taught French in a university, and if you Google me you will find a whole host of books attributed to me which were designed to help people who were trying to learn French - many of which I published through a company called TD Publications which I founded myself, although I closed that business when I was 75, thinking that it was time for me to retire and lead a quiet life.
But then I started writing fiction and suddenly realised that this is what I should have started doing long ago, and here I am nearly ten years later with six successful novels to my name and still actively writing! The first, Before the Swallow Dares was published in 2012, the second, The Heat of the Kitchen, came out in 2013, and they were followed by Billy's War (2014), its sequel There’s No Pride in Prejudice (2015), A Happy Christmas (2015), and the most recent, A Change of Mind, was launched at a hugely successful event at the Cheltenham Literature Festival (the oldest, largest and most prestigious literary festival in the UK) in October 2017. If you didn't believe what I said above about being younger than my years, six novels in just under six years ought to convince you!
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Where to find Tony Whelpton online
Website: http://www.literarylounge.co.uk
Twitter: @TonyWhelpton1
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