I have always been interested in writing stories, but the more I looked into the usual way of Publishing the more I realized it is very hard to get recognition from the many Publishing Houses. Add to this it costs a small fortune
to get ones book made into a hard cover, and quite often they only Publish a small amount and rely on Supply and demand. Self Publishing on line is not as hard as one would think, as long as the font is correct, and the paragraphing is correct, and you possibly have someone to peruse your Manuscript before submitting it, well I have found things go rather smoothly.

I cannot claim any success as yet, I don't expect to ever become a best selling Author, I enjoy writing and always see the funny side of things.
Smashwords has been very helpful to me with it's ease of use.

The greatest joy for me is seeing the story that has been floating around in my head for ages actually coming to life in the form of the written word.
I love to laugh and my life has been so full of natural disasters that it seems natural to me to put pen to paper so to speak.

My fans, all the many millions of them, oops hang on I have just woken up, it is too early in my writing career to address this question.
Oh excuse me Oprahs on the phone, sorry was a wrong number, someone called Ellen DeGeneres.

I am seriously thinking around the Title of book number three being called, "A tale of us". This would be a true though silly story of my wife Lynnie and I, from when we met to the present day.

My favourite Authors would be Wilbur Smith, Ludlum, Tolkien, and I love Autobiographies by anyone.

The fact that I am still breathing helps, my children and Grandchildren, Bubble the Boxer dog, Sunshine,
My music singing and playing the guitar, and the fact I love this beautiful planet that we seem so intent on destroying.

I love to study music and learn new songs, I love getting together with friends and partaking in my absolute favourite pastime laughing.

I get notifications via email on various publications, or I just go to one of the on-line sites and see what is headlining.

The first ever story I fully wrote was called Our Road Trip, it was based back in the late 1970's and tells the story of a road trip that I made from Melbourne Australia to Perth in Western Australia, the characters in the story was my wife Lynnie my son Troy who was just 6 months old at the time, My dearly departed parents Andrew and Annie. It tells the story of us towing a 20 foot caravan right across the continent with no previous experience. The trip was a laugh a minute.

The first two books I have written are based on our life story, so it involved jotting things down in the correct order. I have tried to include actual photo's where possible, but in some instances I have resorted to line drawings which I do myself.

Well I don't remember the first story I ever read but one that stands out is The Lord Of The Rings. Everything that I pictured in my head from this story, the people that later made the film seemed to have read my mind.
From the character of Gollum and Gandalf to the Hobbits the characters where exactly as I imagined them, this story had me spellbound from start to finish.

I try to think of something that adequately depicts what the story is about. In my first book A Tail Of Our Doggies I settled on a rather beautiful picture of four of the dogs featured in my book. On my second book A Tail Of Our Horses I wanted to depict my idea of owning a horse. To me a horse represents Direct Debit, I wanted to show a picture of a horse eating paper money, whilst poo-ing out the back end Dollar signs, I tried various means of approaching this and finally my daughter came up with a Cartoon depiction of this, and I love it.