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Experienced, diverse and successful, after twenty five years writing about finance and technology in the City, Graham Wallace is closing the doors on the lucrative world of boardrooms and spin and returning to his first love, storytelling. The journey from the wild forests of British Columbia to the Portland stone and glass towers of the world’s financial capitals started in a gathering of shacks called Midway. They called it Midway because it was midway between nowhere and nothing in the rugged mountains of Western Canada. Graham’s teen years were spent in the new, post war suburbs that spread out around Vancouver but California was the place he always wanted to be. As soon as he was old enough to read a map, he was heading south. By 1966 he was driving for a rock band playing the college circuit around San Francisco. Viet Nam and the draft forced him back to Canada and by 1968 he was writing a weekly column for a small town newspaper. Throughout the 1970s he published hundreds of articles for West Coast magazines and newspapers. The 1500 word new age travel story beaten out on an antique, portable typewriter was his bread and butter and he spent a large part of his time in Latin America and Post Viet Nam South East Asia. In 1976 he published his first fiction, a short story in a ‘men’s’ magazine. In 1981 his debut novel, The Bhudda Stone, was published and he found himself in London, England. He just couldn’t bring himself to leave. Over the next twenty five years, he started a family and developed a career in the City, writing about finance and banking, systems and technology. Now, with his family grown and his mortgage paid, he has the time and resources to return to his true love, the novel. I can be contacted at gray@magichelix.com |
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