Location: United Kingdom
Member Since: Dec. 14, 2014

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Ted Farrar

Biography

Ted Farrar was born in Leeds, Yorkshire in 1956 but grew up in South Africa. He has travelled widely in Europe, the Middle East and particularly in Africa where his other passion – frogs – often takes him. So far he has discovered and named 16 new species of frogs, and written a number of papers, articles and a book on the subject.
Ted’s curiosity for the paranormal stems from a number of supra-natural first-hand experiences including an out-of-body experience, a miraculous healing, and several encounters with UFOs, ‘angels’ and ‘demons’. He is a committed Christian, but you won’t find him in a church as he is an avowed nonconformist. He has a wide range of interests including travel, politics, religion, the paranormal, history and natural history. He has two grown-up daughters and married his partner of 19 years in December 2013.

Smashwords Interview

What inspires you to get out of bed each day?
Generally I can't wait to get out of bed, and I'm always reluctant to get into it! To me, sleeping is wasted time when there are so many other things I could be doing. If I were to place a time value on everything I'd like to do it would occupy the next 150 years. Sadly, going without sleep for too long is frustrating, because when you're tired you can't do anything constructive either.
When you're not writing, how do you prefer to spend your time?
I love being alone, ideally out in the country surrounded by nature, with no people or traffic. I suppose I'm slightly xenophobic. When I was young and in a strange town or city I'd always head for the outskirts, for the nearest countryside. But there's a balance: having beauty all around you and no-one to share it with is very, very lonely. If there's one person on earth I'm willing to share this solitude with it's my wife. Nature has order and consistency; people haven't. I have a thing for orderliness. Everything has to have its place. Everything has to be ordered and cross-referenced, and I'm forever working on my databases and spreadsheets - to some people that's very anal. After a stressful day there's nothing more settling for me than to watch my computer hard drive defragment.
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Books

Dreamers by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 164,570. Language: British English. Published: December 14, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Ghost, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
Wilson Cole’s problems start when his nightmare follows him back to the real world, and his humdrum life becomes infinitely more precarious. Stalked by Greenspite and hunted by the police, ‘Dreamers’ is a heart-stopping ride with a drunk driver behind the wheel.

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british    demon    fantasy    horror    manhunt    murder    neogothic    police    thriller    yorkshire ripper   

Smashwords book reviews by Ted Farrar

  • Long Pig on Feb. 21, 2015

    REVIEW OF ‘LONG PIG’ by Gloria Piper I loved this little novella. Not sure what genre I’d place it in – it’s not really horror as such. Neither is it a thriller or a mystery. Of course I knew what ‘Long Pig’ was before I read the book, so I sort-of thought I knew how the story would play out. But I played right into the author’s hands. She knew I knew, and she managed to throw a different ending into the mix. I’m glad she did, because anything else would have been a disappointment. I don’t want to spoil the read for anyone else so I won’t say any more. Gloria is an accomplished writer and her style is confident and effortless, so it’s a joy to read. This is an honest assessment of a free review copy of ‘Long Pig’.