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David Andrews

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The son of an itinerant worker I attended fourteen different primary schools before we settled for my secondary education and engineering apprenticeship. This was followed by a working lifetime involved in seafaring, as Chief Engineer, Engineering Superintendent, Classification Surveyor, and University Lecturer.
I sailed on paddle steamers, fishing boats, dredges, dry cargo ships, oil tankers, bulk carriers, passenger ships, supply boats and oil rigs.
My writing began as a form of stress relief from the 24/7 pressures of the offshore oil industry. For an hour each day I retreated into the world of my imagination and wrote fiction.
By the time I retired I'd accumulated a fair body of writing, but didn't know if any of it was publishable.
Sixteen
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A Sense of Arrival

Sixteen years ago I stopped being an engineer and became a writer; a big step after a working lifetime at sea.
To learn my new craft I wrote romance and my first publisher insisted on a female pseudonym so I took my wife's middle and maiden names and became Amy Gallow.
Amy won two national competitions here in Australia and published nineteen stories before I deemed myself competent to write as Davi Read more of this blog post »
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Published on November 13, 2013 17:18 Tags: books, writing
Average rating: 4.48 · 27 ratings · 19 reviews · 4 distinct works
The Sapphire Sea

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Coasting

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The First Born

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The Alliance

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