Author Profiles

Here is an introduction to the RoseTintedSpecs Imprint authors whose books will be published during the next year.

Rose MacFarlane	[Information soon]
Neil W. Murphy	Neil is a Sheffield lad. Born in Charlotte Road he has lived all his life in this part of Yorkshire. Except for the four years he was an evacuee to County Cork between 1939 and 1943 and while getting his wings at Cranwell in the 1950s. He left the RAF to follow a family tradition of steel-making. His grandfather was a forgemaster for Cammell Laird who made his reputation with big stuff, including navy gun barrels. Neil also spent several years with the Probabation Service before becoming a practicing hypnotherapist. His book, Neil's War, was written soon after his retirement. For something to do probably and also, as he says, to find answers to questions that had been bothering him for a while. He is working on a second book, which we can't wait to see. There can't be many people coming up to eighty taking up writing as another career, though it is of course, the new sixty.
David Gordon Rose	David's first professional career was as a trumpet player. He is a 1965 founder member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Great Britain (NYJO) at the age of sixteen and was lead trumpet for its first three years. Early experience includes recording with The Nice and working with PJ Proby. He lived in Brussels from 1968 to 1970, touring Europe with an eight-piece soul band. He studied music at Reading University and spent the rest of the 1970s in the music business, involved (unfortunately, he says) with Punk Rock. During the 80s and 90s he wrote and travelled extensively. His first major publication would have been a Reverse Dictionary in 1989 but the Cambridge University Press/ Chambers co-publishing deal fell through. And then there was a recession. Three years in field marketing is the only time he has not been self-employed as author, photographer or musician. A professional photographer since 2003 he has turned his attention once again to writing (and publishing) and travelling. He is currently living in the mountains of the northern Vosges in eastern France.