Making A Living As A Writer: CHEL... SEA.

Sunday, 20 May 2012

Chelsea win the European Cup. Said it all along. Never doubted it, even when we went a goal behind in the 83rd minute, even when we conceded a penalty, even when we went behind in the shoot-out. Didier Drogba is a giant among footballers. The man, the moment, the coolness to deliver the final blow. Give that man a plinth and put a statue of him on it.

PS. Who said the Gemans were invincible at penatlty shoot-outs? Not tonight they weren't. In their own backyard too.

I'm off to bed. May not sleep much

Who is Alan Wilkinson?

I live in Durham, England. I have made a living as a writer since the early 1990s. For twenty years I earned my bread and butter ghosting biographies, writing corporate histories and doing TV work - anything that would pay the bills. But my main literary and historical interests lie in the American West. I have made close to twenty major road trips out there, criss-crossing the region from north to south and east to west. I have lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I studied writing under Chicano author Rudy Anaya, also in Taos. In 2011 I spent six months alone on a cattle ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills, where I wrote The Red House On The Niobrara.

My 1994 bike ride across Nebraska is the subject of 'There Used To Be A Guy... But He Died.'

It was a 5000-mile road-trip from Mexico to Canada and back which gave me the material for Between the Rockies and a Hard Place.

In April 2017 my first novel, Cody, The Medicine Man and Me, was published by Ouen Press - and was acclaimed by Rudy Anaya "A real prize winner. Compelling story characters."

My next western travel book will be about a trip up the Lewis and Clark Trail.

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