Jos was born in the West Midlands and moved north to study. He spent many years in the teaching profession and based himself in West Yorkshire, where he recently retired from fifteen years as head of a large primary school.
Now he spends most of his time writing. Any spare time is devoted to painting landscapes in watercolour, walking and reading.
His first book, a crime mystery set in Bradford, is entitled 'Dark One : The Revenge is Never Silent' and was released in November 2020.
He has always been what he calls a 'greedy reader', not being able to wait to get to the next in the series and it is his passion for history and literature that has given him the drive to write.
Jos maintains that 'There is a story in all of us - its just having the time, the patience and the will to write it down and let it all out.'
I have always been keen on history, art and literature. Inspiration comes from reading great historical fiction such as Cornwell, O'Brien, Mallinson, Forester and more recently, Scarrow. They are all great storytellers with great historical settings which come alive with wonderful character descriptions and dialogue which just puts you on the spot, there and then, at Waterloo, Trafalgar or during the Roman occupation of Britain. You can taste the sea air and gunpowder smoke, feel every cut of the blade and sense every emotion. It's amazing. It just makes him want to write. It all started as a primary school child of ten years old. Even then, my teachers praised my skills of storytelling. It disappeared for decades, except for little bits, but now I have the time, the imagination and the patience.
I want my stories to be believed, to come alive and for readers to be immersed in them, loving to read them as much as I do writing them
I must admit that I prefer historical novels, it matters not which era, particularly if there is a mystery, a crime, someone to love and to hate. Maybe it's the aggressive element (mainly nowadays during sporting involvement to be sure,) but I love a bit of swash and buckle, a good scrap or a battle. Maybe that's also due to my preference in authors, though I think my reading material and my nature have been in collusion when it come to my own writing style.
Most of my characters are based on people I have come into contact with over the years, not purely though my years in education, though many of them are. I'm a natural people watcher and am always picking them out while having a coffee somewhere and throwing them into another era. If they only knew. Makes me laugh anyway.
'Dark One' was my first. It was a challenge. I guess the first is always hardest of all. It's a gamble. Most of the others I have planned are from other eras in history because I love the research of different times and try to plant myself there and live as they did. My second novel, for example is entitled 'Godiva's Ruins' and is based in Coventry during the blitz of the city in November 1940 but then it continues as a historical mystery/crime whodunnit in the 1970's. The 1970's bit was fun because I could involve all the bits and pieces I remember form my own teenage years and, yes, it involves some characters from that time who have been thrown into the story. If only they knew!
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