Perry Gamsby

Perhaps since I have already been dead twice I should write more Stephen King type stories but I prefer to write 'Street Lit', real life events, ordinary, everyday people in less than ordinary circumstances. I died in 2009 while undergoing 'experimental' robotic heart surgery - of course they only included the adjective 'experimental' after I came out of an 8 day induced coma and stayed awake for three days straight. Plenty of time to assess one's life and direction.

They killed me again a few days later, had to get my heart rate down to something manageable and after that I knew going back to the 9-5 wasn't worth it. So I packed in the job with 'The Man' and ever since then I feed my family; me, my wife and five daughters, through my writing. I have been writing for decades; first by hand, then typewriter and now word processor. Everything from self defence manuals to self-help guides for expats living in third world countries. Back then, though, there was always the 'day job', the 'real job'. I have been a soldier, a private investigator, bodyguard, salesman, dishwasher, paperboy... all sorts of things. All the time it was merely preparation for my life's purpose: writer. I have gathered so much experience and so many stories simply by living my life and paying attention to the details.

My fiction writing isn't what pays the bills, though. That would be the ghostwriting I do but of course, client confidentiality means I can never point to the books I write for others and say 'I wrote that'. My short stories and novels all explore the theme of choices and consequences, one way or another, some more so than others. We all make choices, every day and these have consequences, often unforeseen, unexpected or even unwarranted. My fiction is written for me and the many readers who share my taste because there are many of you out there. One thing I have realised is that we are all far more 'average' than we might wish to accept. No writer can ever attract every reader but if you have read this far, we may share the same taste in writing and I invite you to check out some of my work, or better yet, all of it.