I’ve been writing (or believing I could be a writer) since my 20s. I remember showing my Mum one of my first short stories. She was worried that writing might distract me from the important business of making a living. She said something like “You can do that after you retire, can’t you?” And here I am, at 65, publishing my first novel…

After earning a living as a builder’s lad; car mechanic; junior advertising executive; English teacher; pathologist’s assistant, and copy editor – not all at once – I found a niche in the world of museums and have been working in the sector ever since. I’ve been a freelance consultant since 2015 https://petebrbrown.co.uk/.

My museum work has involved a lot of writing – object labels, graphic panels, guidebooks, etc. but I’ve also written poetry, short stories, children’s fiction and drama. In the 1990s, I co-wrote and self-published English can be Murder! (a course book with audio tapes for adult learners of English as a Foreign Language). English can be Murder! was serialised in BBC English Magazine and broadcast on the World Service. In 2019, my radio play, A Wing and a Prayer, was produced by Shoestring Radio Theater in San Francisco and broadcast on public radio stations and online.