Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog

I’m a British author, living in West Sussex. After completing an MPhil in Literature, I became a secondary school English and Drama teacher. Then I was lucky enough to go part-time when our children were born, which also meant I could spend time with my two lovely daughters during those wondrous early years. I’ve always loved writing, and my first small success happened when an adaptation of my thesis was published. This spurred me on to write fiction, which I’ve always wanted to do – as my head is full of strange images from my very over-active imagination.
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I began to write stories and got some success without much financial reward. Eventually a small genre publisher called Eibonvale Press put out a collection of my stories called A Glimpse of the Numinous, which gathered some very good reviews, including the comment “in Gardiner’s fiction we escape to places…
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