My name is Raymond Walker and you have been reading little snippets of some of my stories and novels to get to this point , I hope that you have enjoyed them. If you have had the time you may also have read the couple of short stories that I have added to the site, if you have then I hope that you have enjoyed them. If not but have enjoyed the snippets then they are there for you to read at your leisure. I intend to add many more as the days pass into winter.
If you have liked them and then wondered; what kind of person is he who writes tales such as these? And so found yourself here, well then I am going to answer your questions as best I can without hearing them. I was raised in Scotland, in a small, west coast, fishing and farming town. I went to school there, played there, grew there until the age of fifteen when I moved to Edinburgh to attend college. Many of my stories and novels take place in western Argyll as the area made such an impression on me in my formative years. When we First moved to the area we lived on a farm that was rather remote and it was there that my love of reading began. There was so much to do in the spring and summer with calving, The lambs, planting and onto harvesting but in the winter you stayed in a cold old house and i filled that time with reading.
I Enjoyed all types and genres of books but I found I had a particular love of the Ghost story, A tale of the unexpected and as the years passed Horror. When someone mentioned Dickens, my first thought was of "A Haunted House" or "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" when others were talking of "Great Expectations" or "A Tale of Two Cities" I was reading M.R. James, Poe, Lovecraft and many others that wrote of the dark places in our souls. I was reading of empty moorland and wailing Banshee's , Black magic, mountains of madness, misplaced spirits and the shivering veil that hung between the living and the dead.
I wrote of them, albeit badly, but imaginatively. Later when my two kids were beginning to grow into the adults that they have become I started writing again and found that I could come up with the ideas just as easily as I had as a youngster but I had years of life and experience in me now and so the formation of the stories became easier, their content darker. My first novel "Nut Brown Eyes" was published Eleven years ago. I have produced another Eight novels since then and a couple of compendiums of short stories and a rather ill advised book of poetry.
I still stay in the west of Scotland despite forays here and there in the known world. I have just released a novel "The Miscast Fate", which is a romantic thriller. Ah but do not worry my next novel is well on the way to being complete and it is a ghost story. I have given it the provisional title; "And the sea shall give up its dead" but that will probably change before it hits the shelves.
I think that i have told you most of what you want to know if i have not mail me just go to the contact me page.
If you have liked them and then wondered; what kind of person is he who writes tales such as these? And so found yourself here, well then I am going to answer your questions as best I can without hearing them. I was raised in Scotland, in a small, west coast, fishing and farming town. I went to school there, played there, grew there until the age of fifteen when I moved to Edinburgh to attend college. Many of my stories and novels take place in western Argyll as the area made such an impression on me in my formative years. When we First moved to the area we lived on a farm that was rather remote and it was there that my love of reading began. There was so much to do in the spring and summer with calving, The lambs, planting and onto harvesting but in the winter you stayed in a cold old house and i filled that time with reading.
I Enjoyed all types and genres of books but I found I had a particular love of the Ghost story, A tale of the unexpected and as the years passed Horror. When someone mentioned Dickens, my first thought was of "A Haunted House" or "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" when others were talking of "Great Expectations" or "A Tale of Two Cities" I was reading M.R. James, Poe, Lovecraft and many others that wrote of the dark places in our souls. I was reading of empty moorland and wailing Banshee's , Black magic, mountains of madness, misplaced spirits and the shivering veil that hung between the living and the dead.
I wrote of them, albeit badly, but imaginatively. Later when my two kids were beginning to grow into the adults that they have become I started writing again and found that I could come up with the ideas just as easily as I had as a youngster but I had years of life and experience in me now and so the formation of the stories became easier, their content darker. My first novel "Nut Brown Eyes" was published Eleven years ago. I have produced another Eight novels since then and a couple of compendiums of short stories and a rather ill advised book of poetry.
I still stay in the west of Scotland despite forays here and there in the known world. I have just released a novel "The Miscast Fate", which is a romantic thriller. Ah but do not worry my next novel is well on the way to being complete and it is a ghost story. I have given it the provisional title; "And the sea shall give up its dead" but that will probably change before it hits the shelves.
I think that i have told you most of what you want to know if i have not mail me just go to the contact me page.