Colin Payn

Writing under a pen name while Colin was working gave him experience selling articles to travel magazines, and helped pay for some holidays. But he always felt that he couldn’t be a real writer until he had a novel up on the shelf over his desk, and that happened in 2016 with the publication of Dot’s Legacy, the first of The Park Trilogy. Dot's Surprise followed in 2017, but it wasn't until 2022 that Dot's Secret was published.

A flurry of projects took over Colin's writing life in the intervening years. A book of short stories, Transport of Dreams, about travelling in cars, motorhomes, planes, cycles and even just by armchair, appeared in 2018 followed by articles in magazines and invitations to appear in many anthologies.

A very unusual project took Colin and fellow writer, Dawn Knox through the 2020 Pandemic year. Living ten miles apart Colin and Dawn used every type of communication available to produce a book, The Future Brokers, set in 2050 and looking at the human reaction to global warming and the rise of Artificial Intelligence, Published in 2021 it is not so much Science Fiction, but Climate Fiction. A second book is among the latest projects.