about me

Have been writing for as long as I can remember (something of an exaggeration, but you know what I mean). Only in the last 5 years have I seriously tried to develop an audience for my stuff and progress has been steady but slow.

Steady Past Your Granny's, the first collection of stories, came about originally as a result of the Daily Mail's ill-conceived "have your own book published" promotion in 2005. Since then I have self-published this book (via a desktop-publishing friend, not the vanity press) and have continued to write similar stories for the local press and Mature Times.

I've tried to come up with a portmanteau word for the stories, combining nostalgia and comedy. The first attempt was 'comalgia' but that sounds like a painful condition, so I've settled on 'nostalgedy'

NOW AVAILABLE AS A KINDLE E-BOOK AT amazon.co.uk and amazon.com. - see website link below.


READING POLICY - YOU NEED TO READ THIS BEFORE BACKING
Ok, so here's the current situation. After an operation earlier this year and convalescent holiday, I found that I had a full watchlist plus an extensive list of further backers who I promised to read. In addition my bookshelf was empty. Because of the amount of time I have been away from work, I now have months of work to catch up on which will preclude any reading, commenting and backing for quite some time. Therefore, for the foreseeable future, I can only really use this site as a social networking tool. If you are kind enough to read the book, comment and/or back same, thank you very much but I do want you to be aware that it is likely to be a very long time indeed before I am able to reciprocate.

favourite books

I'm hopelessly addicted to anything by Terry Pratchett. I'm in the process of collecting the entire works of P.G. Wodehouse. Recently discovered Bill Bryson (I'm a slow learner) and have recently rediscovered "Don't Mr Disraeli" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon

my websites

http://tinyurl.com/5tcckvv     http://www.philwhiteland.blogspot.com