The Team
James Dalby
James Dalby has lived and worked in many places in the world, including Africa - Nigeria and Ghana, France, Scotland, Jamaica, West Indies, United States of America, Ireland and United Kingdom.
James used to fly his own helicopter and was an ardent sailor both chartering and racing yachts. He also had an interest in motor rallying and with others was the winner of an International Motor Rally.
Though an entrepreneur, James has had contact with various security services and was involved with the Central Intelligence Agency in the West Indies and the USA using his experience of those contacts in his stories often using real names heavily disguised.
www.goodnessmepublishing.co.uk
Jim Jackson
Jim Jackson is a local author who is an active member of Appledore Writers Group and supporter of Appledore Library.
www.instagram.com/thenorth_devonwriters
Richard Small
Richard is a former firefighter who teaches Tai chi.
Discovery, body awareness, the chance to share – there is no one important aspect really – one thing is all things, all things are one are the most important aspect for Richard.
www.ghostsandthings.weebly.com/the-book.html
Elizabeth Dawson
Elizabeth is an editor and co-founder of Goodness Me Publishing.
N. Joy
N.Joy is an author and artist living in the inspirational setting of North Devon. The debut novel, Jill, was released on Amazon in October 2017. N.Joy is passionate about literature and giving everybody the opportunity to read.
A cat-loving married mum of two she's had a love of books from a young age and a passion for writing stories .N.Joy’s debut novel, Jill, though self-published, is the first step towards her life long ambition. She’s not stopping there so keep an eye out for other works by N.Joy.
www.nljdesigns.co.uk
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MEMBERS OF NORTH DEVON AUTHORS
Blue Poppy Publishing is a new and very small publisher based in North Devon with, currently, four eight a dozen authors, and more being developed for future publications. Most of those authors are from the local area, although our books have a broad appeal. (One or two are set in Devon but it’s not essential). We are willing to take on the job of preparing personal biographies for private use, e.g. if someone wants only a few copies of their memoir for family members to read, we can prepare the file for printing, and we can arrange to have small numbers printed without the book being in the public domain. This is a private service and not part of the Blue Poppy publishing range. Blue Poppy Publishing is a self publsihing collective, meaning we will help a self publishing author with a number of vital aspects of bringing their book to market, but the author still has control and (although you may not like this bit) still pays for all the production costs. The imprint was set up in 2016 to publish the “Wise Oak” series of Books by Oliver J. Tooley. Then it seemed natural to offer the opportunity to other authors to get their books published under the Blue Poppy imprint in order to benefit from mutual experience and promotional efforts. As a result, in 2017 three new authors joined up. Presently there are at least another four authors interested in publishing their books through the imprint, at various stages of development. Blue Poppy Publishing is not a traditional publisher with a big budget. We can’t pay authors an advance. We can’t even pay for the production costs of your book. However, nor is it a vanity publisher. We won’t put our logo on a badly written book by someone who just wants to see their work in print.
www.bluepoppypublishing.co.uk
Jeff Mills is a retired dentist and facial consultant who has lived in North Devon in the South West of England for over forty years. He is married to Anne, with two children, now grown up. It was when these children were small that he started telling them stories featuring a nine-year-old boy called Hugo and a mysterious, fictitious birdlike animal that had certain magical powers. Many of the authors relations lived long distances away, and so it was to occupy his children and while away the hours driving to and from them that Hugo and his magical friend was born. As the children grew, Hugo faded but never disappeared completely. At the beginning of 2014, the weather was abysmal, and it never seemed to stop raining, and out of boredom, Hugo was suddenly resurrected. The story was never planned and seemed to write itself, as if Hugo himself was writing it. The ending was as much a surprise to the author as it will be to you.
jeffmillsbooks@yahoo.com
