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John Martyn Wilson

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I'm English but I live in the Aude region of southern France with Kate - to whom I have been married since 1971 - and Barney our big blond Labrador.

We moved to France in 2004 after living in London for over 30 years, and we built a house on the edge of a small village, within sight of the Canal du Midi. We have two grown-up children - Matt, who is married to Sam, and Hannah - and two wonderful grandsons, Henry and Charlie.

I've worked all of my life in marketing communications, having started as a publicity assistant with a manufacturer of mechanical-handling equipment. I moved from there to a company making typesetting machines and then to a construction equipment manufacturer. In 1979, I started my own hybrid communications agency which I ...more

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Writing from experience?

I was reading some posts recently in a LinkedIn authors’ group, on the subject of writing from experience. I was surprised (though not sure why) at the number of authors who said that they always started from their own experience, writing about situations and characters that they could describe easily from memory.

It got me thinking about the process that I went through when writing King’s Ransom.