Location: United Kingdom
Member Since: July 31, 2015

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PJ Skinner

Biography

The author has spent 30 years working as an exploration geologist managing remote sites and doing due diligence of projects in more than thirty countries. During this time she has been collecting tall tales and real-life experiences which inspired her to write the Sam Harris Series chronicling the adventures of a female geologist as a pioneer in a hitherto exclusively male world. PJ has worked in various countries in South America and Africa in remote, strange and often dangerous places and loved every minute of it despite encountering her fair share of misogyny and other perils. She is now writing these fact-based adventure books from the relative safety of London but still travels all over the world collecting data for her writing.

The Sam Harris Adventure Series is composed of seven books which follow the misadventures of a female geologist in the 1980s and 1990s as she struggles with new cultures and old prejudices.

The author is also working on two other new books, one of which, Rebel Green, is based on her childhood in Ireland.

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Smashwords Interview

Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I was born in England and brought up in Ireland during the troubles. Being brought up in a country with a culture so heavily influenced by the Catholic religion had a strong effect on me. I was brought up in the era of women's liberation and I thought it was obvious to everyone that women were equal to men but I quickly learned that there weren't too many men who agreed at that time, especially in Ireland. I didn't want the traditional women's role expected of me. It made me long to get away and prove myself which is why I ended up going to such remote and dangerous places. This all had an influence on what I wanted to write about. Sam Harris is a heroine. She is my alter-ego and I use her to explore the experiences I have had in my life in the Sam Harris Series.
When did you first start writing?
I started writing at about eight years old and then stopped until my forties when I needed an outlet for all the material swirling around in my head.
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Where to find PJ Skinner online

Website: http://pjskinner.com
Twitter: @pjskinnerauthor
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Where to buy in print

https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B01ABVE7J2

Books

This member has not published any books.

Smashwords book reviews by PJ Skinner

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