Location: United Kingdom
Member Since: Nov. 25, 2015

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PJ Davitt

Biography

Paddy Davitt is an award-winning chief football correspondent with extensive knowledge of the game built up from working closely with managers, players and owners in the English Premier League and the Championship. He has also covered professional football in the USA, Italy, Austria and France.
His childhood passion for writing was sparked by reading the fictional football stories of authors such as Brian Glanville and Michael Hardcastle.
Paddy grew up in the Midlands, England, and is a lifelong Coventry City fan. He works as a Group Football Editor for the regional publishing group Archant, where he covers Norwich City FC.
‘One Shot at Glory’ is the first in a series of novels featuring a young footballer’s quest to follow his boyhood dream and make it big at his hometown club.
Paddy is currently working on the second book in the series.

Smashwords Interview

When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?
What a great question. I must say this is a strange experience for me as I spend my life asking others questions in my day job as a football journalist!
Well, I see boys and girls like me when I was in my teens; people who share a passion for football and reading, perhaps young adults who might not view themselves as voracious readers but love football and would engage with this story. I wasn’t interested in sci-fi or escapism or wizards and goblins (apologies to those who are!), I wanted to read about something that connected with me. A story from the real world I could relate to. I think that’s what we all want from a good yarn.
What inspired you to write One Shot at Glory?
I honestly feel I became a football journalist because that seed was planted from an early age through reading any fictional book I could lay my hands on. From the age of about 10 or 11 if I wasn’t playing football I would be in the library reading books by sports writers like Michael Hardcastle and Brian Glanville. I re-discovered my love of reading again about six years ago and that was the trigger to sit down and write something myself. I was always going to pen a novel in this genre, it was just the practicalities and logistics of devoting the time. I researched it and really couldn’t see anything that was a modern version of the books I used to read in my teens and given my inside knowledge of the game I felt I could really offer readers an insight into a world they never see.
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Where to find PJ Davitt online

Website: http://www.pjdavittbooks.co.uk/
Twitter: @paddyjdavitt
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/paddy-davitt-77801724
Blog: http://pjdavittbooks.co.uk/in-the-press-box/

Videos

PJ Davitt talks about 'One Shot at Glory'
PJ Davitt, author of 'One Shot at Glory' the first book in the Dave Shaw series of fictional soccer stories, interviewed on UK regional television station, Mustard TV.

Series

Dave Shaw: A soccer prodigy by
Dave Shaw is a young man with a big dream. Come with him on his journey inside the secretive world of professional soccer as he tries to battle against the odds to make it the top.
One Shot at Glory
Price: Free!

Books

One Shot at Glory by
Series: Dave Shaw: A soccer prodigy. Price: Free! Words: 42,510. Language: English. Published: November 25, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Thriller & Suspense, Fiction » Inspirational
Dave Shaw is a young man with a big dream. Come with him on his journey inside the secretive world of professional soccer as he tries to make it at his hometown club.

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arsenal    fiction about sports    football dream scholarship team club england    premier league    soccer    teen    young adult