Hello everyone

[Andrew]

Hi everyone,

My name is Andrew Barrett and I live and work in West Yorkshire. I began writing horror 20 years ago, and after a few lousy attempts, managed to get Charlotte's Lodge into the 'reasonable' category.

Not long after this, I landed a job as a Crime Scene Examiner and so I put aside my love of horror for crime stories featuring, wait for it... a crime scene examiner - something quite original back then. A Long Time Dead fell out of my computer sometime around '98 or '99, the follow-up, Stealing Elgar around a year or two later, with the end of the trilogy, No More Tears arriving 2003.

I was very pleased, especially by Elgar, and began what was to become a huge story called The Third Rule. Eighteen months and 200k words later, I dived into scriptwriting with a friend of mine, and late last year returned to The Third Rule and added another 80k or so words. It's with a reader just now, but I have to say I found my voice and am delighted by what has become a series of three books exploring life in England where conveyor-belt justice in the form of capital punishment is handed out to convicted criminals and unfortunate innocents alike.

Then, in 2011, I discovered Kindle.

Thanks for looking,

Andy

[[deleted user]]

Hello Andy, welcome to the group. Thanks for stopping by to introduce yourself, and best of luck with your writing.

[Andrew]

Hi Hayes,
Many thanks, looking forward to meeting everyone.
Andy

[Donna, Co-Moderator]

Welcome Andrew. Glad you found us.

[Andrew]

Hi Donna, yes I'm glad too. There's such a lot to look at GR that it's quite mind-boggling, hehe.