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Darran F. Summerfield

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Darran Summerfield lives in semi-rural Yorkshire with his wife Jenny and two children Abbie and Joel. He likes mountains because they are big, stars because they are distant and skiing because it scares the hell out of him.

From software engineer to self-employed plasterer, weekend squaddie and warehouseman, he’s had a varied employment history but has always felt he should be doing something creative with his time.

He took up writing as a serious hobby soon after the turn of the millennium, concentrating on fantasy, his favourite literature. But his muse turned out to be a trickster, when she had him hooked and entirely dependant she switched to supplying far darker material. These days she keeps him chained to his rusty old typewriter weari
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So, what’s next?

[image error]2017 turned out to be a very peculiar year. To cut a long story short, I got cancer; I got rid of cancer, now I’m recovering from the cure.


In terms of writing the whole year has almost been a write-off, but I’m not dead so I’m not complaining.


Amid the crippling fatigue, insomnia, nausea, inability to concentrate and confusion (scratch that last one, that’s nothing new) I have managed

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