About Paul

Paul has had an interesting and varied career. He went to sea aged 16 where he developed an interest in travel photography. His writing career began in the early 1980s having illustrated articles published in magazines after completing a course in photo-journalism.

Coming ashore in 1988 he lived in Gibraltar for a year managing a gymnasium, then moved to Greece for eighteen months mostly with travel photography. In Corfu he had an extra role in the Niko Mastorakis film Hired to Kill.

Returning to England in 1992 he furthered his education studying the BTEC National Diploma in Photography which put the polish on what he had taught himself and received the Licentiate Distinction from The Royal Photographic Society followed by a year in Media Studies specialising in video production, being further involved in editorial photography, commercial projects and a couple of photo exhibitions.

On completion of his studies in 1994 he returned to sea including a year in Australia and travelled more. He has always had a passion for history so this time at sea gave him the opportunity to read and write and study online for a PhD in Sports Psychology.

Since he retired in 2014 he has written four Sports Psychology Books published by Dream Engine Media and he has written The Sword of Calais a novella about the executioner of Anne Boleyn published by Austin Macauley, Belleau Wood a World War One drama also published by Dream Engine Publishing and is completing his third novel The Siren's Song set during the Greek War of Independence with further writing projects planned.

He has written screenplay adaptations for all three novels along with several other screenplays, Lamia a horror film and Desert Gold a Western screenplay and two shorts, New Broom and Silent Pay Back. Port Visit has won Best Comedy Script at Liverpool Indie Awards; Izzat, an Indian adaptation of Belleau Wood has won several awards - Best Feature Screenplay at the Birsamunda International Film Awards, MEI International Film Festival, Rameshwaram International Film Festival and The Cuckoo International Film Awards. The Queen's Swordsman, the screen adaptation for the novella The Sword of Calais has won The London Script Awards Best Historical Screenplay, Lamia a horror has won Best Screenwriting at MEI and RIFF.

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