Calvin

I was born and brought up in Earlsdon, Coventry.  Falling in the middle of a large family, I have six brothers and four sisters.  Always having had poor eyesight, I was registered blind in 1983 and lost all vision in 1997.  A graduate of Warwick University, I studied History and Politics.  When aged thirty-eight, I relocated to County Durham in 2000, where I worked for the local authority, running a resource centre for visually impaired people.  My first marriage of twenty-one years ended in divorce in 2008, and I returned to the West Midlands in June 2011 to marry Denise that September.

I’ve been Interested in creative writing for some years, and throughout that time I’ve been a member of one writers’ group or another.  Over the years I managed to win several local short story competitions.  While at university I had a small publishing success with an academic article on the Hundred Years’ War, printed in Herald of Europe, a historical magazine.  My first love is fiction, however, and I had a short story published in the award-winning Coventry Tales anthology. 

I am about to release my first novel, Turning-Point, in e-book formats, and I intend to try traditional publishing houses too.  I am currently working on The Escort, my second novel, Penumbra, a book of short stories, and a basic punctuation guide (title not yet decided).  I read widely (audio books/rtf files), and my darkest literary secret is an intoxicating desire for English grammar/punctuation books, the dustier and dryer the better.

Calvin Hedley