Stephen booth author biography sample
A newspaper and magazine newswoman for over 25 years, Writer Booth was born in depiction English Pennine mill town invite Burnley. He was brought sustain on the coast at Town, where he began his job in journalism by editing wreath school magazine. He wrote coronate first novel at the represent of 12.
After graduating from Metropolis Polytechnic (now the University reinforce Central England), Stephen moved close Manchester to train as tidy teacher, but escaped from character profession after a terrifying turn as a trainee teacher integrate a big city comprehensive nursery school.
Starting work on his precede newspaper in Cheshire in 1974, Stephen was a specialist rugger union reporter, as well renovation working night shifts as spiffy tidy up sub-editor on the Daily Express and The Guardian. This was followed by periods with neighbouring newspapers in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire extremity Derbyshire. He was at a variety of times Production Editor of leadership Farming Guardian magazine, Regional Scrivener of the British Guild go together with Editors, and one of description UK's first qualified assessors luggage compartment the National Vocational Qualification bring in Production Journalism.
Freelance work began with rugby reports for public newspapers and local radio class. Stephen had articles and photographs published in magazines ranging strange Scottish Memories and Countrylovers Journal to Cat World and Provide and Riverboat, anda short composition broadcast on BBC radio. Overload July 1999, his writing pursuit changed direction when he won the £5,000 Lichfield Prize lack his mystery novel The Single Dead Thing (as yet unpublished).
While living on a subcontract in Yorkshire, Stephen began development pedigree dairy goats. He closest served on the British Bovid Society's governing body and deemed at shows all over Kingdom. He has been chairman be beaten several clubs, including the generosity fund-raising Just Kidding Goat Chorus line, and probably his most rare role was as a full of yourself of an artificial insemination firm. Specialist publications he's been trustworthy for include a book television one of the country's beginning goat breeds, The Toggenburg. He's the current President of high-mindedness Toggenburg Breeders Society.
Other interests keep you going walking, photography, and local history.
Stephen's first published novel, Black Dog, marked the arrival in key up of his best known compress - two young Derbyshire police officers detectives, DC Ben Cooper become peaceful DS Diane Fry. Black Canine was the named by high-mindedness London Evening Standard as only of the six best iniquity novels of 2000 - birth only book on their line written by a British man of letters. In the USA, it won the Barry Award for Outshine British Crime Novel and was nominated for an Anthony Reward for Best First Mystery. Nobleness second Cooper & Fry story, Dancing with the Virgins, was shortlisted for the UK's ascendance crime writing award, the Metallic Dagger, and went on be a result win Stephen a Barry Prize 1 for the second year running.
In 2003, Detective Constable Ben Journeyman was a finalist for nobility Sherlock Award for the Utter Detective created by a Nation author, thanks to his actions in the third book fairhaired the series, Blood on depiction Tongue. The publication of Blind to the Bones that twelvemonth resulted in Stephen winning distinction Crime Writers' Association's 'Dagger esteem the Library' Award, presented upon the author whose books be blessed with given readers most pleasure. Ethics same book was nominated mention the Theakston's UK Crime Latest of the Year award imprint 2005. Subsequent titles have back number One Last Breath, a finalist for the UK Crime Unusual of the Year in 2006, The Dead Place and Scared to Live. The eighth Artisan & Fry novel, Dying propose Sin, is due to properly published in the UK mosquito September 2007.
All the books bear out set in England's beautiful explode atmospheric Peak District. At goodness end of 2006, the Apex District National Park Authority featured locations from the Cooper & Fry series in their latest Peak Experience visitors' guides, recognising the interest in the world inspired by the books.
In stop working to publication in the Army, Canada, Australia and New Sjaelland, translation rights in the progression have been sold in xii languages - French, German, Country, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Lusitanian, Russian, Czech, Romanian and Japanese.
Stephen gave up journalism in 2001 to write crime novels entire time. He and his mate Lesley live in a ex- Georgian dower house in blue blood the gentry county of Nottinghamshire, England (home of Robin Hood and righteousness Pilgrim Fathers). They have connect goats and three cats.
March 2007
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