Alan Skinner

Let me introduce myself. I'm Alan Skinner, novelist and playwright - and part-time blogger at www.bookmasque.com.

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Alan Skinner hase been many things in his life but to him, they were all just slices of time layered on the one foundation - a writer. He believes that sometimes, a person forgets what they are and fall into the trap of thinking "I'll get around to that when all these rainy days are over." So, he warns caution: "There's more rainy days than you think there will be when you're young." Now all Alan Skinner does is write - and spend more time than he ever thought he would letting people know about the books he writes. It seems to come with the job these days. On the relationship between his writing and his life, he says, "Some people ask if I use all the things I've been in my writing. I don't think I've written enough yet to have used even a small part of what's happened in my life. I've been fortunate to live in wonderful places: Boston, Melbourne, London, Zurich. Great things have happened in all those places." Alan Skinner is the author of Blue Fire and Ice and Furnaces of Forge, books 1 & 2 of the Land's Tale series, and of Brimstone, the first book in the Earth, Air, Fire and Water series. He also co-wrote the play, Daisy Chain, which had its premiere in 2010. You can visit his author site, Bookmasque.

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