Dave Newman

Born: Yes: 1952

Married: Yes

Children: Yes

How many: 3

What type: All boys! (a web author/editor for a scientific website, a consultant haematologist and a commercial pilot)

Occupation: Teacher (now retired)

Previous jobs: Welder's mate

Sales assistant in a Victorian iron mongers shop

Bookshop Manager (for 10 years)

Salesman for laboratory testing equipment

Lab technician in ceramics

Warehouse operative and

Dustman

Literary background: None, apart from poems published in the magazine of my Grammar school, and a

report on Lord of the Rings theatre production on website of local paper

Hobbies: Writing and recording music (have performed in the Albert Hall)

Running (London Marathon [twice!]. I beat Frank Bruno!)

Qualifications: BA (science from OU); Dip Th (Lond Un); PGCE (Leic Un); One day familiarisation

certificate for a Lansing Bagnall forklift truck

Blight of the Pink Maggots was my first skirmish into the world of authorship. The inspiration has come from my own children and from those I have had contact with in my teaching career.

The characters lend themselves to a follow on book which I am now trying to write. (This is the hard bit!)

Ten Top Tips for the TURPS Procedure: Not a medical report but my own (hopefully humorous) experience of this male procedure which might help someone decide whether to have the procedure or not.

My latest book is my first adult fiction mystery/thriller; 'Project Eaglestar', set on mainland Antarctica. It merges politics, scientific research, geography and military intervention.