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Location: United Kingdom

Member Since: Dec. 21, 2013

Adrian Lacamp

Biography

   Adrian Lacamp is a retired crime analyst who lives in the south east of Northumberland with his wife, and a few DIY tools. His current hobbies include making firewood out of failed DIY projects, avoiding decorating the home and looking after and sampling single malts.
   Apart from his fourteen years as a crime analyst for one of the country's foremost police forces, he spent a twenty four years serving in Her Majestys’ Armed Forces, where he saw service in Germany (mostly) the UK, (some) and the Falklands Islands (after the ’Event’).
He then became a self taught computer programmer, eventually tutoring, to NVQ level 3, on re-training courses in COBOL and Programme Design, before joining the police as a civilian crime intelligence analyst.
   He has also worked with several software companies, consulting on both commercial and bespoke software, ranging from crime pattern analysis systems to a story mapping sub-system for an authoring application for fiction writers. (This book was written using that same authoring software, WriteItNow 5).
   He now spends a lot of his time being very busy, doing as little as possible… (if his wife lets him get away with it!), or building things from old pallets.

Smashwords Interview

Do you remember the first story you ever read, and the impact it had on you?

I remember that I learned to read quite early in life, but the first book that had any real impact on my choice of genres was Bob Shaw's book, Night Walk. It was probably not the first science fiction book I had read, but it was certainly the one that fired my interest in the genre.

What are your five favorite books, and why?

that question will get you completely different answers every time you ask it. It all depends on what I have been reading lately or what books are on my 'to read' list. Currently I would have to add the Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett in that list, as well as the likes of Elizabeth Moon's Serano series. I would add the Harry Potter books, Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe stories and Robin Hobb's Farseer books. Do you see some trend in that lot, I like a story that develops over a good series of book. don't get me wrong, there are many singleton stories that have grabbed my interest over the years, but in more recent times it's the well plotted, well written series, with a depth of back stories and counter themes etc that interest me. Not that I will be able to match such works, I don't pretend to be that good.

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Books

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