about me

I am a writer and a film technician - script supervisor and re-write hack... in London where I live, and the U.S., as well as many far-flung jungles with some of the finest Directors and greatest actors ever to grace the screen.

(Main - i.e. *major* Screen credits on US.ImdB) In returning to my first love of books, (fed up with and semi-retired from the film industry...), I have completed 2 novels, and several short stories (one published as below) -

*The Ragged Yellow Ribbon* - Complete at 126,000 words. An excerpt of 18 chapters is showcased here.

It's a story about my ancestors, as I imagined their lives. They did go on the Klondike Gold Rush, struck it big and lived through it, though the gold, sadly, is gone..The answer as to who stole it, lies here........

The book, recently re-titled, has been on-site for a long time... BUT, after nearly reaching the fabled Desk, I had to leave, and while Awol for 18-20 months or so in the jungle, so to speak, it sank. I returned complete with rewrites to face this new system... It's taken a while... Just saying.
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"RANCHO HOLLYWOODLAND" - complete at c.120,000 words - (Not yet uploaded here)..... A contemporary novel that follows the fortunes of Annacara's great-granddaughter, and the gold... It is a tale of Hollywood chicanery versus Washington racketeering, both brought to their knees by the power of the Press.

There's a lot of personal experience in this one.

BUT, apart from an old print-out, this masterpiece, inc. a year's worth of un-printed/un-saved to pen or disk edits, is currently locked inside an old, crashed computer - the jungle being not great for such things. If anyone knows anything about missing vmm files (for Windows), and how to restore a system without wiping everything, please let me know... Thank you xx.
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A short story - A NUGGET OF GOLD - is published in a U.S. Anthology titled *WORDS TO MUSIC* - with Mayor Biggie and a host of Authonomites. All proceeds are going to U.S. Charities inc Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang Camp.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1456532081

Also to be available on Kindle in June 2011 - tba.
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I have also researched, drafted and begun a thriller - "The Sleeping Indian" - a conspiracy theory brought frighteningly to life. There are, too,.outlines of quite a few other novels and screenplays, including two more thrillers, tales of my American pioneering ancestors of 1630-1800s, and more stories from the Klondike and Hollywood. Ah, and some animal tales, furred, finned, and feathered.
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ALL material is under the author's legally represented COPYRIGHT. (Scary Hollywood lawyer... It helps knowing people.)

favourite books

Classics - e.g. Nostromo (after the first 15 pages or so...); Ramona - and my heroine carries the book as her one friend in the world...
Works set in exotic places, preferably, with characters who make me give a damn about the plot.

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