Author Profiles

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An imprint of Purple Unicorn Media


Below you can find the biographies of some of our authors, published over the last few years.


The blurbs below are just summaries, and full information, as well as links to all their books, can be found on their individual author pages. These also link to any external websites or blogs, where the locations have been provided for us.


All authors published by Scimitar Edge have the right to a biography page, with photographs, life and work history, sales links, and any social media they wish to share.



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Brad Bass

Brad Bass

Brad is married, has three children and has worked for the state of Oregon for over 25 years. When hes not writing, he plays violin and sings. You can find Brad on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn under his name. Reality is in the mind of the beholder and is only what it seems. If reality isn't here maybe its in your dreams... follow your dreams.



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Gary Beck

Gary Beck

Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn't earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and his published books include 39 poetry collections, 14 novels, 4 short story collections, 2 collection of essays and 8 books of plays. Gary lives in New York City.

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Jon N Davies, history and one-place studies

Jon N Davies

Jon specialises both in the history of the Goughs of Ynyscedwyn and Saint Briavels, and in One-Place Studies, of which he has three in hand - the recently published Touching Paradise about his paternal grandparents' Spanish villa, Childhood Home which records the first 18 years of the house he spent most of his childhood in, and 14 Victoria, his maternal grandparents terraced house.

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Jonathan Doering, author of Earworms

Jonathan Doering

Jonathan Doering has been a Quaker for nearly twenty years, and has worked mainly in sixth form and further education and community development, with a special focus on racial equality and integration. He holds an MA in Creative Writing and has published fiction, poetry and journalism in various newspapers and magazines. His SF e-novella, Earworms, is available on Amazon.

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Ralph Greco, Jr.

Ralph Greco

Ralph Greco, Jr. is a professional writer living in the wilds of suburban New Jersey on the east coast of the United States. Ralph writes SEO web copy, blogs, articles, columns, press releases, interviews, and reviews, for clients worldwide. Ralph's one-act plays have been produced across the U.S., while his short stories and poetry have been published in single-author collections, magazines, online, and in anthologies in eight countries. Ralph is also an ASCAP licensed professional musician/songwriter, and can be found here: www.ralphgrecomusic.com

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John Kennedy, author

John Kennedy

American entrepreneur, unabashed capitalist, ex-alcoholic, son of 'the greatest generation,' 2x-cancer survivor, dad, husband and grandfather many times over, and devout Catholic...yes John Kennedy's story is a whirlwind of the self-made man making it through to his mid-80s, and still going strong.





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Simone Lloyd-Davies, author of Stepping Out Into Showbusiness

Simone Lloyd-Davies

At the age of 95 Simone published the story of her life. After joining the A.T.S. in the war, she became part of the concert party entertaining the troops, eventually joining the Windmill Theatre, rubbing shoulders with aspiring stars who became big names in showbusiness. She married an eccentric but charming man 24 years her senior and they bought a rural idyll in the form of a large and haunted mansion in West Wales. She returned to television roles late in life. Simone sadly passed away in June 2020.

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Michael J Lowis

Michael J. Lowis

Michael J. Lowis' interest in writing was born from the many assignments and articles he penned during his studies. The first of his twelve books to date (one being co-authored) was based on an academic dissertation, and four more non-fiction works followed. After a memoir about his time overseas, he embarked on three collections of short stories and two historical novels. However, much of Mike's pleasure comes from carrying out the research that underpins his narratives.


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J.R. Massey

J.R. Massey

A veteran of the Falkland War, Jack would revisit the islands twice before creating his book of photography and after the battle commentary.

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Gillian Mawson, author of Rhymes and Remembrance

Gillian Mawson

Gillian has interviewed over 700 British people about their experiences during the Second World War. Formerly of Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire, she has since moved to pastures new.

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Larry Parker

L.G. Parker

A retired Naval Surface Warfare Officer and High School teacher with a lifelong interest in History and Science Fiction, L. G. Parker shares his fascination with both fields in his writings, notably Slender Threads, which looks at happenstance, causality, and white might have been, and Better Men, a science fiction epic based on the idea of religious imperium.

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Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas is a writer and artist from St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He lives with Margo (wife), Smokey Robinson (Nebelung) and Gibson (Banjo). He is a retired teacher, rowing and wrestling coach, and ex-member of Canada's national rowing team.

Check out his website: flamingdogshit.com

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Grey Wolf, author

Grey Wolf

Grey Wolf's published novels tend to blur the boundaries between alternate history, steampunk, dystopian fiction, and science fiction. Time of The Darkness starts off a pure alternate history but with a span of centuries man starts to explore the stars and come into contact with alien races. Stand-out alone is The Shifting Sands, and its sequels, which are pure alternate history set after a World War in a world which diverged from our own in Stuart times.

As well as his novels, Grey Wolf also edits magazines - the defunct Innovate and AHF Magazine, and the currently thriving Infinity Wanderers magazine, published quarterly and focused both on alt-hist, sci-fi and fantasy, and on genealogy, real history, and travel.

Grey Wolf has lived in his ancestral home of South Wales for the past 15 years. His website can be found at www.greywolfauthor.com

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Sue Woolley

Sue Woolley

Sue Woolley is a writer and Unitarian minister living in Northamptonshire with her husband and cat. An avid reader, her first book, published in 2016, was Gems for the Journey, about the books which have inspired her spiritual journey, which was followed by another non-fiction title, Unitarians: Together in Diversity. Her first novel, One Foot in Front of the Other, was published by the Headline Group in 2020.

The Goldstones and the Way is the first volume of her fantasy trilogy, The Stones of Veylindré. The other two, The Prophet and the Wayzenmoot and The Bloodstone of Talamu will follow soon...

To learn more about Sue Woolley, please visit www.forloveofwords.com



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