Interview with Terence Goodchild

Published 2016-02-09.
What is the greatest joy of writing for you?
I Love to tell a story, and have written 17 novels of fiction and had four published, they are based around my life, my travels and the many people I have met and also known throughout my life, one book is name Jacob Foley which I will put into smashword's shortly it is the story of two brothers put in and orphanage when they mother could not cope, it is based on my brother and I being put in an orphanage by our father when our mother was sick
What do your fans mean to you?
Fans I suppose mean everything to everyone who is, an author, footballer, singer I just hope all my fans like what I write and lose themselves in my stories, and it takes them of their lives and into some other world
What are you working on next?
Fifteen minutes of fame, it is a story of a publishers clerk who is hired by a famous English rugby player, and what he finds out by taping friends and players about the man and what he is hiding
Who are your favorite authors?
Frank Yearby the first black American best seller.
Jeffery Archer
What inspires you to get out of bed each day?
I Am a farmer who owns horses, and a dog they get me out of bed each day my wife and I are great believers in you are committed to your animals, and I am never short of work to do, and we live in a beautiful valley so why stay in bed
Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
when I was growing up in the UK we had a farm not very far from where I lived and we used to spend many happy days helping the farmer hay make, it was called Dam Head farm, so I wrote a story but had a twist and said he was an ex convict growing dope, and then I wrote a second book called Dam Head Farm the Return, and put us as children into the story
What is your writing process?
I have a gift I never get writers block and can write three stories at once, I just stop and start whenever I feel like it, I have no idea where it comes from but travelling a lot probably helps
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