Look and Listen

Biography

The Kindle edition of Patches of Grey is now available for only 99 cents - http://lineaday.blogspot.com/2011/03/sale-of-century.html ~~~~~~~~~~ XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXX Roy Pickering was born on the idyllic island of St. Thomas and currently lives in a quaint New Jersey town. His novel “Patches of Grey” was published in January of 2009 by M.U.D. House Books and has been lauded with stellar reviews. It is available for purchase at Amazon, Mahogany Books, and The Book Journal. Roy's novella “Feeding the Squirrels” can be purchased in a variety of electronic formats from SynergEbooks. While promoting these books he is hard at work on a second novel as well as a series of children’s books inspired by his daughter and being illustrated by his wife. Short stories by Roy have appeared in several anthologies to date, including Proverbs for the People (Kensington Books), Role Call (Third World Press), The Game: Short Stories About the Life (Triple Crown Publications), Prose to be Read Aloud: Volume One, and one of his tales appears in the anthology – Ménage à 20 - which can be dowloaded for free at http://www.menage-a-20.com/ or purchased in print format from Lulu. To enter giveaway contest at GoodReads.com for the chance to win a copy of Patches of Grey, go here: http://tinyurl.com/yfvyjmg Three winners will be selected on March 23rd.

Inspiration

I decided to be a teller of tales as a boy after reading books by Jules Verne. It was amazing that he was able to transport me to other worlds through the gift of words, and I hoped one day to take readers on journeys of my own creation. Rather than around the world on entering the center the earth, my literary trips tend to be into the heart. What I explore through fiction is the human condition.