Colin and I lived and worked in Dhahran for nearly 25 years. He worked for Materials Supply and taught scuba diving and I worked at the Kennel Club, in various capacities for some years. We are now retired and living on the South Coast of England, with a lovely view of the English Channel. Colin is keeping very busy as a nature photographer and a member of Sussex Search and Rescue, a land based unit which searches for missing vulnerable people when called out by the police force. We are members of Butterfly Conservation and I am the Membership Secretary for Sussex branch. I am a Jehovah's Witness, so I am busy with door to door preaching and teaching work. "Till they Dropped" is my first venture into fiction. It is a story I wrote many years ago, and sent to Fantastic Books Publishing hoping they would put it in an anthology of short stories they were publishing. However, my publisher decided it was novella length and has published it separately. It originates from a dream I had many years ago - about a little girl lost in a maze of rooms; and a childhood game my sisters and I used to play - hence the toys. When I started it, I had no idea where the girl was, why she was lost, and who was tracking her down. But as I wrote it, all became clear. It is out in Kindle form, and I already have some reviews on Amazon:
The publisher has advised it will be out in paperback also.
I have a novel finished and ready to go to the publisher. It is a dive thriller, based on our many trips to the Maldives with the Aramco Shoal which Colin organised for over 20 years. I have also had poetry published in anthologies, and edited a book of poems, including some of mine, which is available in Kindle and paperwork versions:
The genesis of the story is that during our Saudi years, my sister Penny set up an email writers group for us three sisters. We worked hard at it, and they are both now published authors - writers of thrillers - see their websites below. And I am finally in print myself. So it was a very productive group.