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First, my short author bio then me in a bit more detail ;-)
Clive Osborne Rapley grew up in Sussex and while working in the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office obtained a Degree in Telecommunications. He subsequently moved into the IT Industry where he worked for the last twenty five years.
He started his writing career producing technical manuals and he edited a specialist magazine for which he also wrote several articles.
He started his first science fiction novel Guardian after leaving full time work in 2008. His second novel in the series Guardian Generations is due to be published in the summer of 2010.
He now lives in a small Hampshire village and enjoys long country walks both there and in the Scottish Highlands.
His other hobbies are motorcycling and power boating. He welcomes feedback and comments so please visit his book website: www.guardianscifi.com.
Now The Long Version
The three most important people in my life are my daughter and two sons. You can see a picture of them on the left.
My daughter has a PHD in Mathematics has published several papers and pops up in Google all over the place.
My eldest son has a BSc in Mathematics and Finance. He is now in the final stages of becoming an accountant.
My youngest son was awarded Top Student at his college last year and has a diploma in horticulture so as you can imagine I am very proud of them all.
I have just finished writing my second science fiction book which, I have called Guardian Generations. Please visit Guardian Website and tell me what you think. I would be interested to know if you would be tempted after reading the first chapter to read the whole book. Of course if you were not tempted then please tell me why not. All constructive criticism is gratefully received. (that of course goes for book one Guardian as well). You can now purchase a signed copy exclusively from here. When you do, 5% of the net proceeds will go to Cancer Research UK, after all without them there would be no book!!
What made me decide to write a book in the first place? Well I started writing when I was made Quality Manager of the service company I was working for. I had to write the quality manual and all the procedures to conform to ISO 9001. When I had finished the quality system consisted of two large books, one the Manual and the other all the procedures.
On the strength of the manual and procedures I had written the BSI certified the company as ISO9001 compliant. As a reward for the work I had done on the companies behalf I was awarded the Presidents Circle for outstanding achievement and got a two week all expenses trip to Puerto Rico and the USA.
My second writing adventure was as the editor for the Trident and Rocket Three Owners Club (TR3OC) this was totally voluntary and I held the post for over two years.
The magazine Triple Echo was professionally printed with a colour cover and an average 60 pages. They were sent out to the club membership worldwide every two months. I used all the letters, pictures and articles I received from the membership to build up the magazine. If I had an issue that was short of submissions (which was quite often) I wrote something, myself to ‘make up the numbers’. The last thing I would do was write the editorial. I then compiled the magazine in Quark Express so it was ready for the reprographic companies computers. I saved everything to disk and then spent an evening at the reprographics company ensuring everything was set up correctly for the print run.
I usually managed to get two weeks off before starting the cycle all over again.
After two years I gave it up. I had sold my Triumph Trident and due to a new job I no longer had the considerable amount of time needed. I have to say I did enjoy my time as editor and I learnt a lot with regard to publishing and printing. One thing always stuck in my mind. The page numbers always had to be a multiple of four!
Fast-forward six years. I was sitting in a Hotel room last May. I had eaten dinner, drank the mandatory two pints and was bored. I suddenly thought why not write a book? I had always wanted to and never got round to it. Now there was no excuse, I had time on my hands and several more evenings in this hotel so I sat down at my laptop and started. It quite quickly took on a life of its own and less than three months later I had over 77000 words!
Visit my book website for more information and regular updates.
www.guardianscifi.com
I also run a website which discusses the various methods of publishing and details partnership publishing in particular.
www.partnership-publishing.com
About Me Page 2
First, my short author bio then me in a bit more detail ;-)
Clive Osborne Rapley grew up in Sussex and while working in the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office obtained a Degree in Telecommunications. He subsequently moved into the IT Industry where he worked for the last twenty five years.
He started his writing career producing technical manuals and he edited a specialist magazine for which he also wrote several articles.
He started his first science fiction novel Guardian after leaving full time work in 2008. His second novel in the series Guardian Generations is due to be published in the summer of 2010.
He now lives in a small Hampshire village and enjoys long country walks both there and in the Scottish Highlands.
His other hobbies are motorcycling and power boating. He welcomes feedback and comments so please visit his book website: www.guardianscifi.com.
Now The Long Version
The three most important people in my life are my daughter and two sons. You can see a picture of them on the left.
My daughter has a PHD in Mathematics has published several papers and pops up in Google all over the place.
My eldest son has a BSc in Mathematics and Finance. He is now in the final stages of becoming an accountant.
My youngest son was awarded Top Student at his college last year and has a diploma in horticulture so as you can imagine I am very proud of them all.
I have just finished writing my second science fiction book which, I have called Guardian Generations. Please visit Guardian Website and tell me what you think. I would be interested to know if you would be tempted after reading the first chapter to read the whole book. Of course if you were not tempted then please tell me why not. All constructive criticism is gratefully received. (that of course goes for book one Guardian as well). You can now purchase a signed copy exclusively from here. When you do, 5% of the net proceeds will go to Cancer Research UK, after all without them there would be no book!!
What made me decide to write a book in the first place? Well I started writing when I was made Quality Manager of the service company I was working for. I had to write the quality manual and all the procedures to conform to ISO 9001. When I had finished the quality system consisted of two large books, one the Manual and the other all the procedures.
On the strength of the manual and procedures I had written the BSI certified the company as ISO9001 compliant. As a reward for the work I had done on the companies behalf I was awarded the Presidents Circle for outstanding achievement and got a two week all expenses trip to Puerto Rico and the USA.
My second writing adventure was as the editor for the Trident and Rocket Three Owners Club (TR3OC) this was totally voluntary and I held the post for over two years.
The magazine Triple Echo was professionally printed with a colour cover and an average 60 pages. They were sent out to the club membership worldwide every two months. I used all the letters, pictures and articles I received from the membership to build up the magazine. If I had an issue that was short of submissions (which was quite often) I wrote something, myself to ‘make up the numbers’. The last thing I would do was write the editorial. I then compiled the magazine in Quark Express so it was ready for the reprographic companies computers. I saved everything to disk and then spent an evening at the reprographics company ensuring everything was set up correctly for the print run.
I usually managed to get two weeks off before starting the cycle all over again.
After two years I gave it up. I had sold my Triumph Trident and due to a new job I no longer had the considerable amount of time needed. I have to say I did enjoy my time as editor and I learnt a lot with regard to publishing and printing. One thing always stuck in my mind. The page numbers always had to be a multiple of four!
Fast-forward six years. I was sitting in a Hotel room last May. I had eaten dinner, drank the mandatory two pints and was bored. I suddenly thought why not write a book? I had always wanted to and never got round to it. Now there was no excuse, I had time on my hands and several more evenings in this hotel so I sat down at my laptop and started. It quite quickly took on a life of its own and less than three months later I had over 77000 words!
Visit my book website for more information and regular updates.
www.guardianscifi.com
I also run a website which discusses the various methods of publishing and details partnership publishing in particular.
www.partnership-publishing.com
About Me Page 2
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