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Graham J. Wood

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Graham Wood was born in Manchester in 1967, third youngest child to Allen and Joan Wood. In his early years he struggled forming words and then developed a speech impediment that led him to read more than usual: when reading a book his speech problems disappeared. By ten years old he had amassed over 500 books he had read. Now over his initially speech problems he excelled at Ashton-On-Mersey School in Sale and joined Barclays Bank PLC aged 16. He spent 24 successful years there, rising from a cashier to globetrotting outsourcing contract negotiator. He joined Halifax Bank of Scotland in 2007 and then Lloyds Bank in 2009. It was in 2009 that he finally left the banking industry to become a freelance Procurement Consultant, working predomina Graham Wood was born in Manchester in 1967, third youngest child to Allen and Joan Wood. In his early years he struggled forming words and then developed a speech impediment that led him to read more than usual: when reading a book his speech problems disappeared. By ten years old he had amassed over 500 books he had read. Now over his initially speech problems he excelled at Ashton-On-Mersey School in Sale and joined Barclays Bank PLC aged 16. He spent 24 successful years there, rising from a cashier to globetrotting outsourcing contract negotiator. He joined Halifax Bank of Scotland in 2007 and then Lloyds Bank in 2009. It was in 2009 that he finally left the banking industry to become a freelance Procurement Consultant, working predominately with a specialised procurement consultancy, Efficio, in London. Over this time he has negotiated over £2.7bn contracts around the world.
Through all this time he wanted to be an author, however a busy work life always stood in his way. At home life was also demanding, after marrying Rachel in 1993, he had his son, Joe in 1994 and his daughter, Rebecca in 1998.
It was his relationship with his daughter that eventually inspired him to write his debut novel, Zein The Prophecy, when in 2012 during a biology class, Becky's friend struggled to find her pulse in her left hand side. A trip to the doctors turned, within six months, into open heart surgery. Further investigations proved that Becky's vascular system is extremely different to others, with multiple capillary blood vessels growing in her body, including the brain to ensure that blood continued to flow round her body, against medical convention.
It was during Becky's convalescence in the intensive care unit in Alder Hey, Liverpool and later in the children's ward that a troubled and emotional father began to sketch out Zein the Prophecy to take his mind of the chaos and also create a book that his daughter would want to read.
The story stems from his many business flights, when he noticed outside, how different a world it is up there above the clouds. He sat down in January 2013 and within 4 months had completed his first novel which then went through the normal editing process. Zein The Prophecy is Book 1 of the first of three trilogies, all self-contained stories in their own right but with the common theme of there link to Zein. ...more

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	Zein: The Prophecy 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Been accepted onto the monthly deal for Zein and wow the ratings have just shot up from over 600k to 30k...on the deal all month so please take advantage of the low price of £1.39 or $2.11...

Would be great to get into the top 100...

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A Model Murder (Alicia Allen Investigates Trilogy #1)

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Aug 24, 2014 09:29AM

Graham, thanks for being friends on Goodreads. Here's to your continued success writing. Hope you'll add my Prohibition-era mystery, The Yankee club to your to read list. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

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