David King

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An old git on a boat

 

I was an accountant once; in fact I’m still a fellow of a certain UK chartered body but that doesn’t mean I’m not a nice person.

After accountancy, I almost became a horticulturist. I completed a two-year RHS Diploma course but it was a misguided period in my life. Fighting bindweed and wet clay consumes too much energy, which I’d rather reserve for writing and pleasurable, leisurable things like sailing boats.

I’ve indulged in creative fiction almost from the time I was first able to write. Of course I didn’t know it was called that then but I still have stories I wrote as a small child. I was first published (a snippet of non-fiction) in a UK national magazine when I was around fourteen. Through my late teens and early twenties I wrote appalling thrillers then graduated to serious historical material culminating in a full-length study of a historic townscape. I dabbled in journalism too: cycle-racing reports and gardening articles for various UK newspapers and magazines until I returned to writing fiction in 1997.

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