Well! Life starts at 73! It's taken me this long to do something that is all my own work (apart from a full working life in electrical engineering). I've just got my first novel published and am looking forward to some feedback on it. Any other first-time authors out there will know how I feel. I am just hoping that a few Christmas stockings might have "The Condor Stone" peeping out of the top. Reminds me - I must tell Father Christmas about it!
Please also see the "Sculptures" page on my website. It's great fun welding odd bits of old iron together after people have long discarded them. I look at the result and think "Now whatever can I call this?" Then I make up a suitable tale about it. They make great table lamps as well. I can always convert one to having a bulb holder if you wish.
The Condor Stone
My first novel, just published
About Me
- Nick
- LLwyngwril, Snowdonia, United Kingdom
- I spent my teenage years in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, where home was a remote tobacco farm. After qualifying as an electrical engineer, I worked amongst many different cultures in India, Colombia, Egypt and Algeria, besides the North Sea and the UK. I retired in 1993 to concentrate on the businesses that Margaret and I had set up in beautiful Southern Snowdonia, offering dinner, bed and breakfast; holiday cottages; an organic market garden and eggs from happy free-range hens. Now we have both retired and I write for a local magazine and have several more novels on the stocks. I also make iron sculptures and table lamps out of scrap metal. I speak French, Spanish and Welsh.
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