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Author Profile
Rod Gordon grew up in Yorkshire but now lives in the Cotswolds with his wife & four children. He runs a market-leading software house but is more defined by his love of his family & sport: he is regularly beaten by his kids at football, tennis, basketball & snowboarding. |
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On Sunday mornings, Rod plays centre midfield for Spartak Stroud, a football team who play in the south-west veterans league. His other passion is going for long walks and mountain bike rides, both around the beautiful valleys of the Cotswolds and along the windswept beach at Trebarwith Strand. |
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I don't know whether to cringe or be proud that I wrote my first book at the age of 11. It was a kind of homage to James Bond with myself as the hero, the sort of story that every young boy makes up. Or was it just me? I like a well-crafted turn of phrase as much as the next person, but what interests me most is a good story that drives along fuelled by lots of dialogue. I want characters that I can identify with or aspire to be, but most of all I have to like them - and I have to care what happens to them. I write books that I want to read myself - and I find it flattering when somebody else wants to read them too. Charles Dickens wrote one chapter a month in a magazine, perhaps I can put a modern twist on this tactic, all websites and ebooks. Buy a story for a couple of quid and if you like it then come back and get another.
Rod Gordon
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I think I like books because my father used to tell me Big Ted & Little Ted stories when I was young. Big Ted is a teddy bear he received on his first birthday - and my father is now in his seventies. Little Ted is a Steiff teddy bear that I was given when I was a baby.
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