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It looks like I've spent my life re-inventing myself. After too many years of office work in London local government I studied theology and became a parish priest in the Southampton area from 1983.
I then moved into health care chaplaincy in a busy south London acute hospital trust.
In between times, I've also sung semi-professionally in London and Spain, and have had short stories published in the UK and Spain.
Now I have two books published - "Ribbons" (2020) and "Finding Mercy" (2021).
And my interests? Reading, cricket, travel, interesting food, most music, and anything that might take my fancy.
I mostly read crime and thrillers, but I like autobiographies and history too.
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David Ward Thanks for your question Ross. Sorry for my delay answering, I'm just getting my next book out.
I write away, and do a first edit as I go. But I do sev…more
Thanks for your question Ross. Sorry for my delay answering, I'm just getting my next book out.
I write away, and do a first edit as I go. But I do several more when the book's completed. By the end, I guess I've been through eight times in total. But I try to edit in such a way that the energy of the original draft doesn't get lost along the way. I go for grammatical correctness, but not if it detracts from the passion I wanted the story to convey.
Does that help? Hope so.(less)
David Ward I think I'd just like to slip into any community that loves and accepts people for what they are. That's one reason I love Suzie Carr's books - I'd be…moreI think I'd just like to slip into any community that loves and accepts people for what they are. That's one reason I love Suzie Carr's books - I'd be happy living with any of her main characters.(less)
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Hi,

I love blogging here, but there's more.

Check out my "David Ward, Author" Facebook page. There I share news about my own books and short stories, come up with some quotes that relate to reading and writing, add in some book and author recommendations - anything in fact that just might be fun and relate to our love of reading.

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More of David's books…
Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde

Suzie Carr
“where there is love, there is life.”
Suzie Carr, The Pet Boutique

Helen Keller
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
Helen Keller

Julian of Norwich
“And in this he showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazel nut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed. And it was as round as any ball. I looked upon it with the eye of my understanding, and thought, ‘What may this be?’ And it was answered generally thus, ‘It is all that is made.’ I marveled how it might last, for I thought it might suddenly have fallen to nothing for littleness. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasts and ever shall, for God loves it. And so have all things their beginning by the love of God.

In this little thing I saw three properties. The first is that God made it. The second that God loves it. And the third, that God keeps it.”
Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love

Suzanne Collins
“Stupid people are dangerous.”
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

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