Sylvie Nickels

 

My childhood was dominated by World War Two, my adolescence and young adulthood by post-war austerity.  I was always going ‘to be a writer’ and after several secretarial jobs joined a magazine called Go (since  gone).  After 35 years of freelance travel writing, including 14 for The Financial Times and several travel guides, I returned to my first love, fiction.  Sheer stubborness (and hopefully some talent) led to modest success in the women’s magazine markets.  I am married to an indefatigable adventurer (George Spenceley), who somehow persuaded me that canoeing the Mississippi was a Good Idea.  This resulted in my first self-published book, The Big Muddy (recently reprinted).  With the advent of Print on Demand I decided to stop banging my head against the brick wall of mainstream publishing and self-published my first novel 'Another Kind of Loving' in 2005.  This has turned into the first of a trilogy. The second novel, 'Beyond the Broken Gate', came out in November 2007.

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