PnPAuthors Book Club Spotlight Paul~

PnPAuthors Book Club is honored to spotlight Paul England

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It’s time to meet another debut Author,  Paul England, and  his book; Voyage of a Lifetime.


 


 


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Paul was born and educated in England, and during the 40s and 50s, he served in Royal Navy. He worked as an electronics engineer in America, Uk, Europe and Australia. In 1974 he transferred to Australia with his family.

Paul is now retired, and lives on the south coast of NSW.

Since his retirement Paul has been quite busy writing books, short stories and articles. Many of his short stories have been published in national magazines and local newspapers.

Over the last few years, he has written six books, ‘Zoom One’, ‘Commando’ and ‘Frogger’- the first three books in the children’s series “Knights of Bonalla’, ‘Voyage of a Lifetime’  - The true story of a truck driver and his family who sailed out from England, bound for Australia in an old fishing boat, ‘Tunguska’, a general Sci Fi based on actual incidents, and ‘The Punishment’, an anthology of short stories.

Paul says writing his first book was relatively easy, however, he added, the hard part was the editing. After a while he stated that the pages swam before his eyes and lines blurred into each other. He went on to say it was difficult, and strict discipline was necessary, It took him a full six months, and still he was not satisfied that it was correct and error free. Eventually he told a friend of his the difficulty he was having, and being a good and true friend, he offered to do the final edit for Paul! Paul said he had never actually met him. He explained by saying they started corresponding on the Internet many years ago.

Paul is presently working on his life story; from age 3 years until he joined the Royal Navy at 17 years old.

Paul confessed to PnPAuthor that he is a member of Maurice Tudor’s BookShelf and Coop.  Maurice has a number of initiatives that give really good support to Authors.

Paul said he was recommended to PnP Author by Maurice Tudor as being a friend to Authors and providing help in promoting my work and meeting other authors

Paul told PnPAuthors Book Club thath started to write his first book by accident. He continued by saying  when he first arrived in Australia, he had the job of setting up service centres around the country. On his first trip to Western Australia his wife asked him to look in on a friend of hers if he had time. Paul knew the friend, but not well, although he had read of his adventure in national newspapers, so he was keen to visit the friend, Don Caisley, his wife and two sons - the family that had made the voyage from England to Australia in an old fishing boat. Don and Lena told Paul all about their adventure and he was completely rapt by their story. He asked if they had thought about writing the story and trying to get it published. They told Paul that a local author had asked to write a book, but wanted to treat the voyage as a comedy.That immediately upset Don, and later on, when he discovered Paul wrote the odd short story, he asked him if he would write a true account of the voyage. Paul agreed to do it, but warned it may take a while as he was very busy with work. Two years later, the writing was finished, then started the soul destroying task of finding a publisher. He says that is another and very long story so we hope to hear about this story when we spotlight Paul again soon.

 

 

 

Voyage of a Lifetime is the true story of a truck driver with an indomitable spirit, who decided to emigrate to Australia in his own way. He bought an old fishing boat; even though he had no knowledge of boats, sailing or navigation, and spent a year making it seaworthy and liveable. Then he sold his truck, home and business and put his wife and two young boys on board the boat that now had an old bus engine for power and a telegraph pole for a mast, and sailed away from England on a voyage that was to take the family one year!

Don Caisley is a man who believes that whatever you set your mind to do is possible if you want it enough. But he could not have achieved his goal without his wife, Lena. Lena was the cohesive force that held family and the various crew members they picked up, together, throughout the year long voyage. 

Voyage of a Lifetime is a book of adventure, family togetherness, fun and even danger at times. A book for the whole family.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1925023915

 Note from Paul: My latest book, Tunguska is a venture into Science Fiction.

I have always been fascinated by the inexplicable, especially when Governments give the official explanations for mysterious events that fly in the face of reason. Of the many mysteries that defy explanations, the Bermuda Triangle, UFOs and the cataclysmic explosion that occurred in Russia in 1908 are the most notable.

Tunguska is written around the latter, but shows tenuous links to all three!

Early on a June morning in 1908 a tremendous explosion rocked an area in Siberia around Tunguska. The peasants within 50 miles of the blast saw a multi-coloured, mushroom shaped cloud slowly rising high into the sky. Later there were accounts of animals and those brave humans who ventured into the area of the explosion being struck down with a strange sickness.

Scientists said that the explosion that caused shock waves to circle the Earth several times was the result of a meteor. But meteors strike the Earth and leave a crater. This blast was at least a mile above the surface, and there was no crater - just a million trees flattened and laid out in lines radiating from the centre of the explosion.

Another perplexing fact that cast doubt on the 'meteor' theory was that the object slowed down and changed direction before it exploded, according to eyewitnesses.

Scientists believe it was a meteor, and completely discount any other explanation, even though eye-witness evidence points to some sort of control!

Tunguska is pure Sci Fi by necessity, and a tongue in cheek scenario incorporating the inexplicable events mentioned. Read to enjoy or criticize if you feel the need.

EBook: https://www.createspace.com/4431055
Paperback: https://tsw.createspace.com/title/4431055