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Carl Lee (Author)
Carl Lee was born in the United Kingdom in 1975. With his parents in the Royal Air Force he grew up in many different places, from Germany to Yorkshire and has since lived in many more, from Spain and Cyprus to Blackpool. He currently resides near Blackpool where he writes mainly because it is too windy to go outside.

“I wanted to be an author since I can remember. I wrote my first story when I was five. It was rubbish, but hopefully I've improved since then.”

He wrote his first full length novel in the late 1990's but failed to get it published. After many rewrites over subsequent years, he shelved the project indefinitely and returned to writing in 2008 with 'Trouser's Edge'.

Following the relative independent success of that, he decided to follow it up with the sequel 'Once Upon A Hell'.

“It is immensely difficult to find agents and mainstream publishers, more so now than maybe ever before. Competing with other entertainment media, such as DVDs and computer gaming, lierary entertainment seems to have almost taken a back seat. Being independently published however, doesn't diminish the pride you feel when you first see your work in print and although you have to do a lot of the leg work yourself, e.g promotion and sales, it only heightens the sense of achievement when things go well. The onset of the Kindle revolution is also a great way to keep costs down and still allow an author to reach an audience.”

With many other projects in the works, he hopes to continue to write and have his audience grow with every book.