Tim Waters

I'm in the "middle" of life and looking to find out what else I can do in this world. (No I'm not going through a mid-life crisis - I did that in my twenties). I have worked in I.T. and Education for many years but now really enjoy working for myself. One of the best things about life is having a family to look after.

I love the slapstick in life, Laurel and Hardy being for me the most wonderful comedians of all time. I love the way that the two of them thought of so many different situations where they could surprise their audience with a laugh. This background, along with my childhood's favourite author, Roald Dahl, has given me a desire in my writing to create stories that don't stick to convention. I'll try and weave a dry wit throughout my writing and will seek to find ways of delivering the profound through the ridiculous. This is what I've done with my first book "The Waterworks of Clearwash City".

My book is a mixture of the thoughtful and reflective amongst the daft and ludicrous. The idea for the story is based on a children's summer club drama script that I wrote in the year 2000. Each year my wife and I wrote and hosted a children's club that lasted a week. It had lots of "flying custard" and silly games. Laughter was the main item on the menu and we had loads of fun.

The children so loved the drama story that year that I decided to turn it into a book. Now in 2014 it is finally finished... yes it took a long time to write but I'm a perfectionist and believe that when people read your work it should be very, very good.

I believe that writing should touch your spirit and soul to leave you changed at the end. You should be able to meet me in the pages of my book and find out what sort of person I am.

Apart from writing I love the creation of music, going to the cinema, eating pizza, drawing when I have the time, playing golf on my Wii, starting fires in my back garden to roast marshmallows over, creating websites, going for walks with my wife and family, eating donuts without licking your lips till the very end, having water fights when I should be watering the garden, snoozing on a Sunday afternoon, eating more pizza, getting up very early in the morning to pray and welcome the day, listening to Hancock's Half Hour, video editing when I've got a subject of interest, eating yet more pizza, irritating and annoying my family till they tell me to shut up (at that point I know that they've not forgotten me and they know that I love them very much), eating more and more pizza, seeing how many grapes I can stick in my mouth at the same time and still eat them without choking and finally, making people laugh.