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about me

Always wanted to be child prodigy,
but now 82, suspect I may be cutting things a bit fine.

Education ceased about aged 10, what with wartime chaos, serial truancy. and evacuation, which lasted 3 days. Didn't do rural. Home in good time for the bombs.

Idle office boy , then inept Army conscript (excused guns in case I shot the wrong side.)

Sometime UK radio & television comedy scriptwriter and satirical columnist.

Appointed, in error, as one of the Open University's earliest staff.

It is 27 years since I last worked. Think I have possibly gone off it.

Been writing another book these last few months, based on personal experience, called 'Double Incontinence'.

It is based in an old folks home, but haven't got past the first sentence.

In case you are interested, I give it in full below:

' He was the anti-christ, but only worked part time.'

Play chess if fine, golf if wet.

Still have original wife and daughter, and in the right order.

My Family's motto: Hide all his tools.





favourite books

Catch 22 , any Waugh, any Wodehouse,any Alan Coren,
The Dice Man, Carl Hiaasen's stuff.

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my websites

http://www.eric777.com    

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my books

Degree of Exposure

Eric Newman

Professionally reviewed as 'Witty novel ,superbly written, reminiscent of Tom Sharpe.'

Brings new hope for the dead. Even they could enjoy it.

Very sexy too.


On impulse Jack joins a creative writing class for something to do.

He is a bit flippant with the tutor, and is told to write 'something funny' for his first homework. The class like it, and as he adds other ideas during the course, he gradually finds it turning into a comic novel.

He fancies Janice, a beautiful classmate, and seeking to ingratiate himself with her he makes her the book's heroine.
Janice is the girl friend of the class tutor, so things get a touch tricky.

Jack's book becomes a savagely satirical and sexy piece of work, peopled with a host of comic characters behaving in an all too human way.....despicably.

It all builds up to a tremendous climax when the whole of Blackpool Illuminations (Northpool in the novel) is laid to waste by a series of clangers that drag the hero into deeper and deeper waters, from which there is seemingly no escape.

Then, with one mighty bound........ well, maybe......maybe not.

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sandy-1 wrote 4 days ago

My pleasure, Ruby 'Will Ryan'

sandy-1 wrote 6 days ago

Hi sodyt, You have a great book, I have just finished reading a few c....

angelwithabullet wrote 8 days ago

Hi there, Just wondered, if you had a few spare minutes on your hand....

Glenn Muller wrote 8 days ago

Always loved Spike's work - especially his series of books on his exp....

Maevesleibhin wrote 18 days ago

Eric, As it turns out I co-host a thread that promotes comic writing....

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I wrote 28 days ago

Hi Cara . Thanks for taking the trouble to give me your detailed comments on Chapter One of my book. The problem is that I write with a certain style and flow. What you say is perfectly valid, but I run the risk of overwriting if I start to polish it to the extent you suggest. As you w... view book

I wrote 33 days ago

Hi Olive. As an 83 year old myself I empathise with Ruth and really enjoyed her reminiscenses. Made me think about writing my own tale down before senility steals up on me and it all disappears. Well starred and will be shelved when i have space.. regards eric view book

I wrote 33 days ago

Hi Anthony. Read your first 5 chapters. I agree with Painted Pony that the jump from chapter 2 to 3 is too abrupt.. Maybe you do explain it later but I felt it deserved some continuity. The main plot does not emerge in these early chapters though the other incidents are well written and the who... view book

I wrote 33 days ago

Hi Benedict. You have set me a real problem here after your really excellent comments on Degree of Exposure. It is a hell of a long time since I was a young adult and I just don't empathise with the genre any more. Not therefore able to comment sensibly on your story. Very well written of c... view book

I wrote 33 days ago

Hi Sara. Not really into fantasy to be honest. But you first few chapters are obvioulsy very well written and paint your landscape in vivid terms. Bets of luck with it. Cheers Eric view book

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