Words are what I play with.
Stories are what I imagine.
Interludes from life are what I illuminate.
I started writing 1n 1971. My first book was a strange sixties conglomeration of narrative, philosophy, poetry, spirituality, photography and cartoons. I thought it was brilliant. Unfortunately nobody else did. That’s probably because it was unreadable. I still feel a nostalgic love of it though.
I then set about writing Sci-fi. I wrote four or five novels without a glimmer of success.
In 1980 I had a re-evaluation. I went and talked to my friend Roy Harper about producing a biography. He was keen. It morphed into a book based around his lyrics. I spent 20 years on that project. It was in 4 parts but never saw the light of day.
In the meantime I was still writing Sci-fi and delivering a course on The History Of Rock Music. So I made that into a 4-part book. A publisher was interested but wanted it cut down from 1200 pages to 200. I wrote him a different book. It was pulled on the day of publication.
Undaunted I continued writing.
I had a job as a teacher and four kids. Every night, after they were in bed I’d write. Whatever took my fancy – Sci-fi novels, weird underground novels, antinovels, environment, antireligion, travel, education, art, poetry and rock music.
Then I discovered self-publishing.
Then sonicbond publishers contracted me for eight books on my rock heroes.
I write my Sci-fi under the name of Ron Forsythe.
115 books later I’m still writing.
Love it as much as reading!
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