Welcome to my Website under construction. I have been in the entertainment industry most of my life as a pianist/entertainer, writer and even, on one occasion, a horse riding stuntman for the movies.
I had an eight-year stint as a writer/producer/director in the Variety Department of the SABC. Whilst there, I wrote, produced and broadcast more than a hundred South African TV shows, one of which, the twenty-six weekly Money or the Box Show, became the most popular local TV show ever.
At that time, I wrote my first ‘how to’ book entitled Television through the Front Door, published by McGraw-Hill, now out of print.
Since then, I have published Justice of the Wild, a young adult action/adventure novel about ‘canned lion hunting’, that takes the reader deep into the African bush and exposes this trophy hunting scourge. Justice of the Wild is available on Amazon/Kindle in paperback, e-book and audio-book versions.
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I then wrote, ‘Forty-five Babies’, a true story, available on Amazon/Kindle in paperback and e-book versions, set in modern-day Johannesburg, that uncovers the tragic plight of unwanted, and discarded newly born babies, and the compassion of Lenise Hamilton, a brave woman who loved, nourished, and fostered these forty-five helpless infants until they were adopted permanently by caring couples. (Since this book, Lenise has fostered a further twenty-five.)
My next book, ‘Teach Yourself Basic Music Literacy’ is a ‘how to’ book, available on Amazon, that teaches the music enthusiast all the basics of music. This book contains useful ‘pull-out’ charts and other practical tools.
Finally, the Tafara Series, a three-book, middle-grade, family saga, series in the magic-realism genre.
Synopsis
Tafara, The Beginning. 40,000 words. This the first of a three-book middle-grade, family saga, series, in the magic-realism genre.
When Tafara, a deeply spiritual, eight-and-a-half-year-old, adopted boy, encounters Khozi, a giant prehistoric eagle, who teaches him how to communicate with animals and plants via thoughts and lovewaves, his life changes. They further develop their mutual mental powers into virtual video imaging. This eagle happily flies Tafara and his African friend, Joe around. Honor, always on hand with good advice, is Tafara’s quirky guardian angel, and these four friends become a daring bunch of crazy young detectives, solving mysteries.
Joe’s father, Alfred, a Traditional healer, and part-time barman at the Tropicale Hotel in Sabie, features strongly in Tafara’s life as a newly born baby boy.
This family saga series, unpacks the growing-up years of Tafara with his adoptive mother Maureen Finch and offensive stepfather, Donald, on their dairy farm adjoining the Kruger National Park. The Goldman twins, Tammy and Beth of the same age, and friends of the boys, live on a farm close by. These and a few other local kids are homeschooled by Maureen Finch.
Interwoven, and crucial to the plot, are several back-stories from the past, that depict Tarafa's origins, and his real father Franklin T Riley, who clash with their rivals, the unruly Elliot Twins, Duncan and Henry, and their mother Angela.
I'm currently seeking an Agency to find a suitable publisher for this three-book series.
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