Charlie Britten... About Me

I don't often get a chance to write about me...  I'm not interesting.   That's what my writing's for.

So what do I write?  Fiction almost always.  I used to think of myself just as a novelist, and that's still what I enjoy doing most.  Like most hopeful novelists I have loads of dusty, and pretty awful, manuscripts stuffed in obscure drawers of unused cupboards, growing more yellow and more dog-eared with each year, floppy discs too.  More later works (recent enough to be stored on memory stick) include a novel about growing up in middle-England in the 1970s.  My current novel, 'And the Wall Came Tumbling Down' (which has been in progressed for far too long and still nowhere near finished) has a Cold War theme.

One of the reasons 'The Wall' has been so slow is that common sense prevailed and I started writing shorts as well.  (How was I going to have any cred with a book publisher if I had no backline in short stories?)  I particularly enjoy flash fiction, making a point or someone laugh in 200 or 300 words or less.  Although I have had mainstream work accepted, I seem to have most success with humorous fiction, and all my work has a funny vein, even when I'm writing something deadly serious.

I've had work published on Fictionatwork, The Short Humour Site, The Linnet's Wings, Delivered (print magazine), Hobo Pancakes and Mslexia.

I belong to two writing groups:  Chapter 79 and Writers Dock.  The members of these groups, and of Great Writing and the old More Writing site, have taught me a lot.

In the real world, I'm an IT tutor at a college of further education in England.  I live with my husband, son and cat, and my daughter lives with her husband to be on the south coast.  Other interests are all a bit random: web design, cats, travelling in eastern Europe.

What else do you need to know?  Not a lot.  Read my work instead.