Michael Parker

I have been writing thrillers for many years and have experienced the highs and lows of being a writer. My first novel was published in 1980. I was married to Patricia for sixty years before she succumbed to cancer in 2020. We moved to West Sussex in 2014. We have four sons, ten grandchildren and three great grandsons. My hobby is writing, of course, and to date I have had fifteen novels published. You can see my list in Author Central. My other hobbies are snooker, speedway, football and music. I play snooker, watch football and speedway, and used to play the keyboard (not too well). I am a born again Christian and played keyboard in my fellowship for several years in Spain. I worked as a maintenance technician most of my adult life, serving sixteen years in the Royal Air Force, and about seventeen years with a food manufacturer. I retired in 1996 (I was fifty five years old) and moved out to Spain a year later. Pat and I lived on the Costa Blanca for seventeen years and moved back to the UK towards the end of 2014. Other jobs I have done include Merchant Seaman, Office boy, and general maintenance for a chicken farmer! I stopped writing in 2018 to nurse my wife. After she died, I found it extremely difficult to contemplate writing again. It took almost three years before I was able to complete a thriller, which I published at the end of 2020. In January the following year, I decided to write contemporary Romance under the pen name, Emma Carney. I published three of those within six months. Once again, these are available on line. My current project at the time of writing is research into a work of fiction set in Occupied Paris in 1940.