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Introduction

KEN BLOWERS

A Queensland Senior Writer

Ken Blowers is a Queensland 'Senior' writer of short stories and one-act plays. He was born in 1934, the youngest of seven children in the small fishing port of Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. His father died in 1939 when he was only 5. As a 6 year old he suffered the trauma of enforced evacuation from a coastal area threatened by enemy invasion. The returning home a year later to face the rigors of heavy enemy bombing. On leaving school at the age of 15 in 1949, Ken became an apprentice coachbuilder - at that time a woodworking trade! He was made redundant on completion of his apprenticeship at the age of 21. Thereafter he engaged in a variety of employment spheres to support his young wife and two children: fitter, car salesman, electrical salesman, postman, insurance agent, factory assistant manager, shopkeeper, and barman. Feeling a bit disallusioned with his employment prospectss and looking for a new start he applied, through Australia House in London, for enlistment in the Royal Austrlian Air Force. He signed up on a Wednesday afternoon, flew out on the Thursday morning, and arrived in Australia on the Saturday (27 November 1965) which, he has been known to say, demonstrates how desperately Australia needed him!

Having enlisted as an Air Force clerk he quickly taught himself to type (mainly so he could quickly reclassify to a higher pay level!). Having no formal education qualifications at all, he enrolled in the Victorian Correspondence School and after attaining matriculation standard, he eventually achieved his aim to become a commissioned officer.

In 1985, at the age of 51 and after 20 years Air Force service, he retired (with the rank of Squadron Leader). Ken and his wife Jean lived on a 28 acre property, where he bought and built a steel-framed home, over looking the valley. In 1992 the author and his wife moved from NSW to Queensland to be closer to their two daughters and their three grandchildren.

Interestlingly, it was their happy experiences together in their local U3A play-reading classes that encouraged him to take up the pen! He has since become a prolific writer of 1,000 daily quotations, 48 short stories, and 40 one-act plays.

He lives in Mitchelton, a north-west suburb of Brisbane, Queensland,Australia. And he recently retired from writing a total of 30,000 postings in Ken’s Corner, in his UK, Suffolk, home town website lowestoftonline over a a period of eleven years or so..
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After seeing for myself the high quality of books here on authonomy, I set out to re-read and re-edit ALL my twelve books – and what a gigantic task that was!

And I’m so pleased to say I have finished the task at last!

I have also reset the books in the following more logical order to make your perusal much easier, and more enjoyable, than before, as follows:

QUOTE ME: Vol 1.
A book of 1,000 quotations.

SHORT STORIES: Vol 1. Vol 2. Vol 3. Vol 4. Vol 5. Vol 6.
(A total 48 stories)

ONE ACT PLAYS: Vol 1. Vol 2. Vol 3. Vol 4. Vol 5
(A total: 40 one-act plays)

A big problem for authors with multiple books, is the fact that support can be weakened when it gets spread across all the books. The only answer to that problem that I can think of is to ask my supporters if they would kindly concentrate support on my leading book, which in my case is Book Number One - QUOTE ME.

Thank you.
KEN

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