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First, my official 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 Longer less formal Version
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. This process got me into the world of Apple Mac and I have not looked back since.
I usually managed to get two weeks off before starting the process 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 one dull evening. 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. I sat down at my laptop and started typing. It quite quickly took on a life of its own and less than four months later I had over 77000 words!
Just to keep myself from being bored I keep bees, tropical fish, go motorcycling and power boating.
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.publishingoptions.info
By the way if you ever visit Scotland and decide on including the Isle of Arran then you should stay at the Brae Cottage B&B. I recommend it!
www.braecottagearran.co.uk
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First, my official 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 Longer less formal Version
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. This process got me into the world of Apple Mac and I have not looked back since.
I usually managed to get two weeks off before starting the process 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 one dull evening. 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. I sat down at my laptop and started typing. It quite quickly took on a life of its own and less than four months later I had over 77000 words!
Just to keep myself from being bored I keep bees, tropical fish, go motorcycling and power boating.
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.publishingoptions.info
By the way if you ever visit Scotland and decide on including the Isle of Arran then you should stay at the Brae Cottage B&B. I recommend it!
www.braecottagearran.co.uk
I have just found a useful useful woodworking and tool review website you should pay a visit especial if you are into woodworking
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