Member: Roy Cecil
I joined the then Slough Writers Group in 1996. I had recently retired from the oil industry where for most of 30 years I was involved in the lubricating oil business (BP/Duckhams/Castrol). My short story writing started around 1994 as entertainment both for my daughter - newly at university- and colleagues, who would take pieces to read on business trips (on their flights, you understand, not during negotiations or meetings).
You may read some of my more recent work on my website: www.essforby.com,
but in due course I hope to include some of my earlier stuff (if I can find it).
Successes
Co-author with my wife of Fighting the Silent Killer by , 1999.
Short story To stand and Stare published in Story Cellar magazine.
Three Letters to the Editor printed in The Times.
Slough Writers competition winning entries
Short Stories
Neighbours
A Small Patch of Sunlight
Wish You Were Here
Poems
Ultra-becalmed
Legacy – a Space Odyssey
Birthday Images
Articles
Fine Mind, Shame About the Body
Review of The Blind Assassin by Margaret Attwood
- Isms and Schisms
Other
Film Treatment based on my own short story Cull.
Please note all of the above will be reproduced in full on my website in due course.
Interests
Collecting antique silver
Collecting 19th/early 20th century watercolours
Growing vegetables for consumption
Reading
SuDokus
Crosswords
Expertise
Antique silver - English and Scandinavian
The oil industry