In fact, on my recent world tour to India, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore to promote Only Time Will Tell, an Australian lady in Sydney asked me if I'd already written all five books. When I handed the finished manuscript in to the publisher nine months later, the first question they asked me was, 'What's going to happen to Harry in volume two?' to which I had to reply, 'I have absolutely no idea, but I'm praying that I will have come up with something by this time next year.' When I sat down to write the opening paragraph of volume one, Only Time Will Tell, I knew little more than the tale would follow the life of Harry Clifton, a lad born to a family of dockers in the back streets of Bristol, who would, at the age of seven, discover he had a remarkable talent that would change his whole life.īy the end of the first book, in 1938, Harry would have won a place at Oxford, but then he has to decide if he should continue his studies, or sign up to fight in World War II. When I decided to write The Clifton Chronicles, a five-book family saga that would span a century, from 1920 to 2020, I had no idea what a daunting task I was taking on. However, let me share with you the biggest problem I'm facing at the moment.

The truth is, the ideas never stop flowing. I only wish I knew, because if I did, I'd write a book on how to be a storyteller. The question I'm most asked by readers is, 'Where do you get your ideas?' If you treat writing a novel as a hobby, that's exactly what it will end up being

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