In 1988 I successfully self-published Refrigerated Transportation, a second edition of which was published by Witherby & Sons in 1999. My history of military transport, Arteries of War, was published by Airlife Publishing Ltd in 1992, the same year that I self-published the first edition of An ABC of NLP and established the Authors Self-Publishing Enterprise with the acronym ASPEN.
My writing career was put on temporary hold when the Finnish shipping line Containerships Ltd Oy, with which I had been associated for almost thirty years, persuaded me to establish a UK organisation for them based in north-east England. The one-year I offered them became five years (as a consequence of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the decision of the shipping line to start calling at St. Petersburg, thereby having grabbed a "tiger by the tail") before I was allowed to take another retirement, although I am still a non-executive director of the line.
Now I am once more devoting the major part of my time to writing and publishing. In addition to the revised edition of An ABC of NLP, Peace of Mind is a Piece of Cake, written in collaboration with Michael Mallows, was published by Crown House Publishing in December 1998. My first novel The Torturous Scheme was published in Spring 2001. 2001 has also seen publication in electronic and hard copy form of my Mini Guide to Self-Publishing, full details of which are available on my companion ASPEN website, and a powerful novel by Abigail Freeman entitled The Chrysalid Years.
My collaboration with Michael Mallows was expanded in 2002 with the introduction of the magazine Nurturing Potential of which I was Managing Editor and Michael a consulting editor. From 2002 through 2006 this magazine was critically acclaimed both in it paper and its online forms. Ultimately the paper version was discontinued as most subscribers preferred to enjoy the no-cost online version.
In 2006 I became seriously unwell and, despite persevering with publication, ultimately this expired with Issue No. 20.
In 2009 I published Did I Really Say That? This was a miscellany of much of my writing over several decades and included poetry written as early as the 1940s as well as several articles written for Nurturing Potential and several other journals.
Now, with health apparently restored via a vast package of daily drugs, I have re-launched Nurturing Potential preceded by New, as a quarterly online magazine. This is being supplemented and complemented by Potential Unleashed during the intermediate months.
[My books will be found on my companion site - ASPEN]