Chris Scott: writer
I have written in one form or another almost as long as I can remember. Words have always had a fascination and I have often felt the frustration that these very words that we humans invented would simply not do what I wanted and seemed to have a life and a will of their own.
In my young teens, further back in time than I allow myself to
remember, I wrote the obligatory and nauseating juvenile poetry, full of angst
and self importance. Those simpering odes have, thank God, long since
disappeared! But they gave me a glimpse of the wonder and the wilfulness of words.
Having set my heart on becoming an actor - a dream that did not last, to the benefit of world theatre! - I naturally gravitated to writing for the stage and that is a love that I have retained to this day. For a number of years I ran my own small theatre company and each year I entered and directed an original play into the Kent One Act Play Festival, sadly no longer with us. I was fortunate enough to have four of these plays published and, indeed, they are still in print.
Another long standing interest of mine which has produced various writing ventures is the field of criminology. I have written three books on the subject of the Whitechapel murders - the so called "Jack the Ripper" case - and a second edition of one of those volumes is currently in preparation. In this same area, I am also a contributing editor with a monthly column in the "Ripperologist" magazine.
And so, finally, to the field of speculative fiction, a clumsy title
for what I still prefer to call "fantasy." Many are the worlds I have
visited, thanks to writers of the stature of Tolkien, Lewis, Tanith Lee and
David Eddings. And now I have the audacity to pluck at the hem of their garment
and find my own little space in the sun.
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