One of our officers from Birmingham Police who juggles his day-job with life as a part-time author has penned a children’s book for a local charity. PC Colin Evans has been writing as a hobby for the last 12 years but only began taking it up more seriously after taking a creative writing diploma in 2009. ‘Reginald Growl: Bodyguard Bear’ is the latest piece of fiction from the 50-year-old, who spends most of his time as an investigation officer based at Stechford police station. But his first work, published earlier this year, was a far cry from life on the thin blue line and was aimed at a more grown-up audience. Whimsical Passions was a partly-biographical and self-deprecating novel based on his own personal experiences of life in the 1970s and the twists and turns of a turbulent marriage. It became an eight part series, which Colin decided to self-publish online. He then set about typing up, illustrating and marketing his first piece of children’s fiction, inspired by his own grandkids Riley and Lexi. Read more: west-midlands.police.uk/latest-news/news.aspx?id=1695
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:24:38 +0000
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