About me

It's not much fun being a pseudonym, people don't really know who I am:
They think I'm Dean Koontz in disguise so I'm dismissed as being a sham
And at least one other writer has hidden behind my name
So that if their writing's rubbish guess who takes the blame.
Well, I've got a birth certificate which says I'm really me
And that I always have been since I was born you see,
So when you pass me in the street you can say, "Oh look, it's him -
"It's the guy who appears on Google, David Axton the pseudonym" *

My work is used in, or is recommended reading in, schools in America and Canada and has been used at international education workshops, a three-night program performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Bristol Arts Festival (2nd place with distinction for a recitation of 2 of my poems - well done, Christine) and at many other smaller UK events.
It is also recommended reading in the practioner's guide for improved reading by the National Research & Development Centre for adult literacy & numeracy, London.

* Unfortunately "David Axton" is one of the pseudonyms used by Dean Koontz, a popular American sci-fi writer, and this has led to some of my work being used in Eastern Europe and attributed to Mr. Koontz (if that is his real name) in error. Oh well, that's life.

To clear things up here's a brief bio:

I was born in London in 1946 and had an exciting business career, rising to the giddy heights of teaboy at a merchant bank until it was taken over by a French company which only drank wine. So in 1998 I was forced into early retirement and started hating the French (I'm a slow learner).

Having dabbled with the written word in my youth (mainly copying naughty stories and selling them to schoolmates at sixpence a time) I decided to try my hand again - after all I couldn't play golf every day. In 2000 I started this website and over the next 38 months added over 100 titles but then discovered the 'quantity to quality ratio' and took some off again. I also had an "Issues in Verse" section on a local community website but forgot my password.

Well-known for my unwitting Victor Meldrew impressions I now live on the North Norfolk coast with my wife Sue and my computer.
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