Kathleen Adkins
Writer of articles and features on local history, fitness, food and cosmetics. Kathleen
has had twenty-two poems published and nineteen short stories. She has won several
competition prizes in both poetry and short stories, including winning a Writing Magazine
poetry competition, and several short-listed poems and stories.
Alison Beck
Alison has been writing for as long as she can remember but, for many years, work
and family commitments got in the way. Since she retired, she has been able to devote
more time to her writing. In 2007, her piece about her eccentric Aunt Dorothy was
runner up in the ‘Ian MacMillan’s Writing Lab’ memoir competition on Radio Three.
Seven of her short stories have reached the final judging stage for Writing Magazine
and Writers News, and her short story ‘Calling Bill‘ won and was published in Writers
News in March 2010. She has also had a short story published in ‘Scribble’ magazine.
She has completed several creative writing courses, and is now the proud possessor
of a Diploma in Creative Writing from the Open University. She has, for the moment,
abandoned thoughts of a novel, and is concentrating on short stories, competitions
and magazine articles. Alison has had an article published in the Chiltern Society Magazine,
and has submitted another now that she 'has a foot in the door'.
Catherine Jones
Catherine has written 4 books for Little Black Dress - The Chalet Girl, published in 2007,
The Trophy Girl, The Movie Girl, and The Love Boat which was published in October 2009.
She has had six previous novels published - A Regimental Affair and A Question of
Loyalty to name but two. Because of her background, she was also employed as series military consultant for the
TV drama series Bombshell. She has also appeared on University Challenge – The Professionals
with a team of romantic novelists, who reached the final. She is currently Chairman of the Romantic Novelists’
Association. She has two websites to showcase her work:
www.catherine-jones.co.uk and
www.katelace.co.uk.
Pauline Halford 1947-2009
Our former Chair Pauline wrote mainly non-fiction books and magazine articles. Her
first book, Storm Warning – The Origins Of The Weather Forecast was published in
2004 and her second, on which she was a co-author, I Remember Me, part one of Frank
Ifield’s autobiography, was published in 2005. She was also a regular contributor
to Caravan magazine and has had several other articles published in music, general
history and family history magazines.
Hywela Lyn
A member of the Romance Novelists Association, Hywela Lyn writes under her first two names, but is
usually known just by her second name, Lyn. Originally from rural Wales she moved to England when she
married. She writes mainly romantic futuristic and science fantasy, although occasionally she
dabbles in western historical short stories, one of which was published in The Lady magazine.
She has been shortlisted in 'Writers News' and was featured in the Members’ News section when
her first novel 'Starquest' was published by the American Publisher 'The Wild Rose Press' in August
2008. The sequel, 'Children Of The Mist' followed and she is now working on the third book in the
series . She recently e-published her fantasy romance novella 'Dancing With Fate' which was originally
published by TWRP as part of a commissioned anthology.
All her books are available either in paperback or as e-books from the publisher, Amazon and other
online stores, or from her own website.
Website: www.hywelalyn.co.uk
Blog: www.hywelalyn.blogspot.com
Tony Rossiter
In November 2007 Tony’s second book was published - The Greatest Retirement Tips
In The World. His previous book, a humorous skit on village cricket entitled Only
a Bloody Game, came out in 2002. He has also written for magazines such as The Countryman,
The Cricketer, Country Walking and The Oldie.
Dave Sivers
Dave is a freelance journalist and fiction writer whose crime fantasy novel, A Sorcerer Slain is
available as an e-book for purchase to Kindle devices and Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch,
PC, Mac, Blackberry, and Android-based devices. He has written articles for a wide range of
publications, including a recent series on True Crime in Buckinghamshire for
The Four Shires magazine, and he has regular columns in two newspapers, The Bucks Herald
and The Leighton Buzzard Observer. His successes also include magazine fiction and short story
competitions. He co-wrote a sitcom pilot, Mann’s World, which made the latter stages of the
BBC Fresh Talent competition, as well as two comedy plays, also in collaboration - Recipe for Disaster
and Dancing on the Forecourt. He additionally runs creative writing workshops and courses.
You can visit Dave’s website at www.davesivers.co.uk.
Sandra Smith
Sandra Smith is a freelance writer with a passion for humour. She currently writes blogs for three
magazines. Under the pseudonym Lady Margaret Gosworthy-Pringle she contributes fortnightly
Journal Jottings to Hampshire Life; A Write Life! features on Hertfordshire
Life’s website and My Islington Friend has been running on
www.london.greatbritishlife.co.uk
since 2010. Sandra also blogs on her own website. Under the pseudonyms Villette de Lingua and
Alex Smythe-Smith she is a regular contributor to The Chap. On a more serious side,
Sandra has had articles, interviews and reviews published in a wide variety of magazines including
Country Living, Writing Magazine, The Oldie, Dance Review, Tring and Berkhamsted Gazette and The
Four Shires. Her features have appeared in several Archant publications: Buckinghamshire Life,
Berkshire Life, Worcestershire Life and Warwickshire Life. Sandra dabbles in copywriting and, as a
creative writing tutor runs courses, workshops and a Regular Writing group. She has been interviewed
on BBC Radio Oxford, is a reluctant twitter (@TheCurrentMrsS) and an enthusiastic Lady Ambassador for
The Lady magazine. Sandra will be running workshops at this year’s Chipping Norton Festival and Thame
Arts and Literature Festival. Oh, and she is the current Chair of Chiltern Writers.
http://www.TheCurrentMrsSmith.co.uk
Christine Williams
Christine has published short stories in women's magazines, articles on management
training and distance learning material. Hodder and Stoughton published her 'Teach
Yourself - Planning a Wedding' and she has self-published a novel, 'Charity Begins'.
The Bucks Herald has recently accepted a short series of articles grouped under the
title of 'A Secret Life of a B&B', from which a novel is in planning as well as a
sequel to 'Charity Begins'.
Andy Wood
A writer of sagas and dramas, Andy has self-published two books, with
another on the way. He is now writing his fourth novel, a series featuring a private
investigator called Lee Prince. Information on his novels, including the first chapter and
information on how to purchase them, can be found on his website
www.andrewwoodwriting.com.
Debbie Clarke
Debbie has been writing seriously for fifteen years. She started by attending courses
and writing short stories, and is now working on two novels. She completed NaNoWriMo
2009 and feels this has made an enormous difference to her attitude to writing. Bolstered
by her new confidence in writing speedily, she now intends to complete her two novels
and get to work on the three cookbooks she’s been planning.
|