Meet the Team - Autumn 2018

Over the next few weeks/months, I'll be sharing some new chapters in the lives of characters with links to the Solent Welfare Rights Project, a fictional advice centre based in a south Hampshire town just a little bit like Eastleigh.

If you haven't already met Hilary Carrington, Lyn and Terry Walker, Toby Novak, Catherine Collier, their families, friends and clients, it's never too late to start reading Welfare Rights Lit.  If you aren't sure it's for you, there's always some available to try for free.  The most recent effort in draft form exists on this blog as a series of chapters starting last November.  The first ebook in the series, set eight years ago and entitled Severe Discomfort, is free to download on the first Friday of every month with all the subsequent stories free on dates stated in their blurb. 

Here's the link for Severe Discomfort, which is on free download today. 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00C69HMRM

It wasn't written to make me rich (and it didn't) but to explain what was really happening to people needing benefits to get by under both the New Labour Governments of Blair and Brown and the Tory/Libdem Coalition that followed them.  Things have, without any question, got much worse since and are continuing to deteriorate.  It's a challenge to keep the overall tone of the stories upbeat, cheerful and positive but I choose to do so because it is possible to win appeals, to find love and friendship, to make society better, fairer and kinder.  It is important to let the people suffering at the sharp end know this and to know that others want it to happen for them. 

I don't have the resources for professional proof-readers, designers, marketing campaigns or paperback giveaways.  Reviews (respecting these limitations) are welcome, or at least a 'found this helpful' tick to someone who has already placed a review with which you agree. 

Daphne Randall's 4mph thrillers are the more commercial end of my writing efforts although I do give them away free too, intermittently.  There are little cross-overs between these and the Welfare Rights Lit stories from time to time, including the first episode of the making-it-up-as-we-go-along blog-novel to come which I'll be starting any moment now...