User:Alan Place

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Alan Place (AKA Al Place & P A Canella) is a British multi-genre writer and was born on October 18th, 1956in Middlesbrough, Tees Valley at the age of 7, his family moved to Clevedon, Somerset and his mother still lives there. After leaving school, he spent two years at college before joining the Royal Air Force, during his 6 year spell he was posted to RAF Lossiemouth, RAF Laarbruch and finally detached to RAF Aldergrove at the time of the Bobby Sands hunger strikes at the Maze (HM Prison). After spending a year unemployed he joined Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery and at the time of leaving after 14 years, he was one of the last to have worked in all the branches of the museums. He later suffered from depression when his father died of lung cancer. This later lead Alan to spend many months unable to work. A year later after a scary moment at the top of a set of stairs, when he lost the sight of the edges of the steps it was discovered that he had been suffering from escalaphobia (the fear of escalators) for many years. This still affects him to this day as he has to stop at the top and see the stairs mmoving to judge his step. At the moment Alan is involved in writing for charity with two groups one is Indies In Action whose book Angels Cried is giving the monies raised to help the victim's families involved in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the other is for Peacock Writers whose book A Spooky Fall Harvest will send funds to children's charities worldwide. Both groups are planning to be able to help more in the future. He also hopes to be able to help the group FLOW, which sends funds to help people effected by service life.

Other works include :- Pat Canella (Cold case files) Chronicles of Mark Johnson Nerja Holding Richmond (best seller on Amazon) Did we see him?

Works in progress :- Drakanarc Mordhiem to Marienberg Did we see them? Sons of Baal

Category:Ghost story writers Category:British fantasy writers Category:British science fiction writers Category:Anthologies