About the author

Clive Gilson

<p>Clive Gilson was born in 1962 into a predominantly sporting household &ndash; his father was a good footballer, playing senior amateur and lower league professional football in England, as well as running a series of private businesses in partnership with Clive&rsquo;s mother, herself an accomplished and medal winning dancer.<br /> <br /> Clive obtained a degree in History from Leeds University before wandering rather haphazardly into the emerging world of business computing in the late nineteen-eighties.<br /> <br /> A little like his sporting father, Clive followed a succession of amateur writing paths, including working as a freelance journalist and book reviewer, his one claim to fame being a by-line in a national newspaper in the UK, The Sunday People.<br /> <br /> Clive&rsquo;s first novel, Songs of Bliss, appeared in 2011, with three subsequent volumes of short stories appearing in print between then and 2017. Clive&rsquo;s stories and poetry have appeared regularly in anthologies in the UK, and his work has been shortlisted in competition by the likes of Ragged Raven, bluechrome, and Leaf Books.<br /> <br /> Over the last twenty years or so, Clive has collected nearly 10,000 copies and versions of folk and fairy tales from around the world, both for research and as a hobby. Loving stories and their telling as he does, Clive is now adapting these stories and producing well put together free eBooks by country and region - a labour of love that will take years to complete (if ever - there are always new stories to discover).<br /> <br /> Clive combines his love of story-telling with a passion for information technology, and he is currently a Director with a major UK FinTech company.</p>