Aggravation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781494429720)

I, John Hampton, live with my wife of 40 years in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. I began writing in my mid-teens for the sole purpose of jotting down the myriad of thoughts that popped into my head with monotonous regularity, without any thought whatsoever of becoming a writer. And a writer I did not become for near on 45 years later. At that time I had a sudden impulse to resurrect the pile of jottings that had been gathering dust almost forgotten just to see what I had, and what I had was mostly gobbledegook. There were however some words, sentences, and paragraphs that made sense and demanded I extrapolate, and extrapolate I did, resulting in five years ago with my first novel Simple Things, followed with Just Another Day, Saturday's and Iced Vo Vo's, then Aggravation, my first self-published novel. With Aggravation done and dusted I wrote Henry Talbot's Book of Yesterdays, uploading to Amazon Kindle November of this year 2013, that was quickly followed with Saturday's and Iced Vo Vo's. One of these days I'll get around to rewriting Simple Things and tidying up Just Another Day, but before then my sixth novel Here Be Demons is demanding to be finished. 85,000 words and still a long way to go. Then there is my seventh The Bird Bath, 3,000 words it is only in its infancy, but the words are there to take it to the level of a major work sometime in the not to distant future, all things being equal, that is. When I'm not writing I tinker and toy with, creating metal sculptures, a little woodwork, and when the urge presents I sit before a camera putting my views out there or making another episode of Aggravation then and now - a monologue, all of which are uploaded to YouTube and my Facebook author page - http;/www.facebook.com/JHNOVELS. I also have a website - http;/www.johnsbooksasp.com.au - there you will find an e-mail prompt should you so desire to contact me. I am very much an outdoors person, isolating myself in the Australian bush once year for a couple of months, hunting a little but fishing mostly, but always enjoying the peace and quiet and solitude. Simple things, friend readers. But above all I love sitting before a campfire and losing myself to the flames. To me life doesn't get any better than that.