Nice to meet you all!

[Andrew Carter]

Hello folks,

Nice to join you all on here. I had to think a bit too hard about the verification question so relieved to have got it right!

My name is Andrew Carter, I'm a twenty-nine year old writer from Leeds, England. (Well, I say 'writer,' - it's not my job, I actually work in social services.)

My first book, Bright Lights and White Nights came out in April 2015, published by Proverse, a small publishing house based in Hong Kong. It is comedy / crime fiction about an English guy who moves to Hong Kong and gets into a bit of bother after being arrested for cocaine possession. The book was well-received but hasn't allowed me to give up the day job and whittle away my days on a beach collecting the royalties. Yet.

I'm working on my second book now, a memoir of anecdotal tales etc. I've been putting samples from this, as well as regular blogs on Medium.com, which I'm finding to be a very useful site. If you have a few minutes, please have a browse through.

Andrew Carter — Profile

(I'm not sure what the etiquette is re. posting book and blog links - If this is frowned upon, I apologize!)

Thanks for your time and have a good afternoon.

All the best,

Andrew

 

[Lex Black]

Welcome to the Colony!

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Welcome to the Colony.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Hello

Congratulations and good luck with Bright Lights and White Nights. The spouse, Il Matrimonio, visited Hong Kong in January this year. Leisure, on his way to Singapore, revisiting childhood haunts. He grew up all over the place as an army child and gets wanderlust. He rang one evening...free telephone in the hotel in HK. After a while I heard an odd little click on the line. He didn't hear it, but I think someone was listening in.

If I recall, a book shop manager had recently disappeared, there. Stocking subversive books? Getting into any kind of bother there...whole can of nope.

 

[Robinne Weiss]

Welcome!

 

[Boopadoo]

Hello and welcome!

 

[Nicole Wilson]

Welcome to the Colony! Feel free to post links to your website and social media in this thread if you like.

 

[KG Christopher]

Hi Andrew, welcome to the Colony

 

[Peggy Lou]

Welcome Andrew.
Re. Katie's post, several bookshop owners vanished, if I remember correctly. They are supposed to have been kidnapped and taken to China, reportedly for stocking subversive literature.
An idea for a story-plot there, perhaps.

 

[Patricia D]

Hello and welcome

 

[Sea-shore]

Welcome Andrew!

 

[Geoff]

A very warm welcome to you!

 

[Marc Joan]

Welcome

 

[James Marinero]

Welcome!

 

[K.J. Simmill]

Nice to meet you

 

[Jacqueline Koay]

Welcome, Andrew. I had the verification question wrong too! But managed to get in on the second try. Good luck with the second one.

 

[David Newrick]

Welcome Andrew. Sorry for the slow reply but what with work, re-drafting and life it is taking time to get round everything. I hope you will understand

 

[Les of Edith Weston]

Welcome

 

[Les of Edith Weston]

Welcome