J W LAWSON

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 I was born in the mid-sixties within a very close knit family, my early memories are happy ones despite being subjected to the Beatles and the Beach Boys for most of my waking day!

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School was fun!  My first poem was written at the tender age of five and I proudly recited it in assembly. From that moment on I wrote poems both for fun and at school and continued to enjoy writing throughout my education.

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In my thirties, I started to enter a number of poetry competitions. My lovely sons were growing up fast and I therefore had some spare time to write. After winning some competitions and being published in a number of anthologies, I wrote a poetry book then I stopped writing.

 

My enthusiasm for creating a novel was re-kindled a few years ago. Although my day-time job was extremely demanding, I found that writing relaxed me. Every time I sat in front of my laptop and continued with my writing , all of my worries dissipated and I became lost within my world of fiction. Then I read Gone Girl. It hooked me from the beginning to the very end, and I read the entire thriller in eighteen hours! I knew then that like Gillian Flynn, I could write gripping thrillers.  Since that moment, I am plotting new stories and jotting down ideas for many more books, two of which I aim to complete within the next eighteen months.

 

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