1) Welcome to All Book Reviews! In 2020 you were awarded by "Story Monsters". What can you tell us about it? The award from "Story Monsters" for my first published story, "The Adventures of Jimmy Crikey", was one of the greatest, most unexpected accolades I have ever received for my writing. I must have thought, 'I've cracked it!' If only a writer's path to success was that straightforward. Jimmy Crikey's story had been formulated almost forty years earlier. It came about by necessity: to entertain a group of four or five young friends whom my four-year-old son had made during an English seaside holiday, almost fifty years earlier. Caught in a shower, the friends sought shelter in our beach tent, and their boisterous games continued in the crowded confines. I was under pressure from my wife, Pat, to control the noise levels. "How?", I asked. "Tell them a story or something." For the first time ever I made up a stor...
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