Simon Trick
It has been a long road leading up to the publishing of Simon Trick’s first book – ‘Yesterday Never, Ever Dies’.
His first love from childhood, was action-adventure drama on TV. This had a huge effect on his interest in stories, which developed in later childhood when he grew interested in art through US comics and began drawing his own, short, comic-strip stories. He has continued to draw throughout his life.
As a teenager, he also became passionate about athletics, drama and massage: the first influenced his art work; the second increased his desire to tell stories in a dramatic style; the last one became a career, later in life.
Simon became a primary teacher in 1985 initially working all over Haringey, then five years in Hayes and 11 years in Slough as a Deputy and an Acting Head Teacher.
In the 1990s, he was Assistant Director of the Baha’i National Choir - in which he sang and often conducted – performing all over the UK. Later he was involved with Hayes and Arlington Operatic Society taking principal roles in ‘Chicago’ and ‘Sweet Charity’. In 2007, he joined Spotlight Musical Theatre Company. In June 2017, he will be Lieutenant Brannigan in ‘Guys and Dolls’.
In 2011, after 26 years of teaching, Simon became a part-time teacher, so he could become a Sports Massage Therapist.
After completing his training in 2012, he began his business in Woking. To date, he has successfully treated over a hundred and twenty clients for a wide range of injuries and ailments.
In his 'spare' time, Simon is a Surrey Police Chaplain and has been fortunate enough to go on patrols with his Woking police colleagues, for whom he has tremendous respect.
He also works for Woking People of Faith, a voluntary organisation which helps improve understanding and build friendships between different faiths and cultures; this is a principle that inspires him in all areas of his life, including his writing.
As a teacher, Simon began to write short suspense stories for schoolchildren, using movie-making techniques to create scenes in words. He was fascinated by how the writer, like a film-director, could reveal or hide as much as he wished, to keep the audience enthralled. But several years ago, he finally decided to challenge himself by writing a novel that could appeal to a wider age-range.
His love of people, science, sport, art and especially movies, motivated Simon to make his first novel, 'Yesterday Never, Ever Dies' as exciting and humorous as possible, but always based in reality:
“I wanted all the characters to be believable, whether young or old, even if they were only in the book for a few moments – every one of them has their own life, although we might only get the smallest glimpse of it.”
Simon’s book – for which he also drew the front cover - called ‘Yesterday Never, Ever Dies’, is set in a typical, Surrey suburb, where thirteen-year-old Rebecca Roberts’ world is torn apart by the arrival of strange new neighbours, irritating cousins coming to stay, a local child’s disappearance and a close friend’s dark secret. These events rapidly lead her into a highly dangerous investigation, with the help of a very unexpected ally.
