More Success for ROT …

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I’m not a sci-fi genre author, but one of the three stories that make up my multi-timeline yet-to-be-published novel, ‘The Rhythm of Time’, is set two centuries in the future. I entered an extract (entitled ‘The Future is Glitchy’) in the Writers of the Future Contest and it received an Honorable Mention 😊

Sadly, it didn’t win any dosh (shame, as it’s much needed to break even on all the contests I enter), but the contest is quite prestigious for hard core sci-fi and speculative fiction, so I guess it is a smidgeon of recognition / validation for those elements of ROT. As I say, I’m never going to be a sci-fi author, but I did enjoy the world building and the science and speculative elements.

In some ways I’m kind-of relieved not to have won because of 1 – the Ron Hubbard connection (the full title of the comp is L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest. He was one of the instigators of the (somewhat dodgy) Scientology cult) and 2 – I would not have been able to travel to LA for the glitzy award ceremony (😉)

Each of my three stories (historical, contemporary and speculative) has now received some success in contests …

Published by Richard Attree

Growing up in London in the 1960s—an exciting time, and place, to be a teenager, my passions were books and music. I always wanted to be a writer, but was diverted into writing music rather than books, and for the next thirty years I composed music for TV. For the next thirty years I composed music for TV and radio, working at the BBC’s renowned Radiophonic Workshop, before going freelance. While at the BBC, I won two Sony Awards for ‘The Most Creative Use of Radio’. In 2007, I retired from the media music business and downshifted to Tenerife to focus on writing (initially, short stories, travel articles for magazines, a column in a local paper etc). Since then I’ve co-authored two novels with my wife and self-published one of my own. I write for love. It’s my passion, and I’m very fortunate to ‘live my dream’ (to use the jargon of reality TV). Stories, characters, ideas and words are my obsession … and my motto is: ‘Keep Scribbling!’ My debut solo novel TOO CLOSE TO THE WIND, a philosophical thriller, was published in 2019. It’s a story of survival, an epic travel adventure, and a celebration of wind, surf, and the human spirit.

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