Pauline rowson biography children

I  wrote my first novel at the age of eleven, an adventure story in the style of Enid Blyton, who was my great inspiration.

Pauline rowson books Adventure, mystery and heroes have always fascinated and thrilled Pauline, that and her love of the sea has led her to create her exciting and gripping range of crime novels. Born and raised in the coastal city of Portsmouth in the UK, Pauline Rowson draws her inspiration for her crime novels from the area. When she isn't writing which isn't often she can be found walking the coastal paths on the Isle of Wight and around Langstone and Chichester Harbours looking for a good place to put a body! Pauline is the author of twenty-four crime novels — sixteen featuring the rugged and flawed Portsmouth detective, Inspector Andy Horton; four in the mystery thriller series featuring Art Marvik, the troubled former Royal Marine Commando now an undercover investigator for the UK's National Intelligence Marine Squad NIMS ; two standalone thrillers, the award-winning In Cold Daylight and In For the Kill , and the set mystery series featuring Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Alun Ryga, who makes his debut in Death in the Cove with his second investigation Death in the Harbour. Her crime novels have been highly acclaimed in the UK, USA and Commonwealth and they have been translated into several languages.

It was borrowing an Enid Blyton book from my lovely little local library in Portsmouth that ignited my love of reading and of writing.  From about the age of seven or eight I too wanted to be a writer. I was always writing stories and plays, the latter of which I’d stage with my friends and brothers in the garage at our family  home in Portsmouth.

However, life, marriage, paying the bills and forging a different career took precedence.

I worked for the civil service in the jobcentre and benefit office network, where I met some fascinating people and had some hairy threatening experiences!  I went from there to undertaking an HNC in Business Studies with Marketing at night school and from there a post grad. Diploma in Marketing, again at night school until, after working in sales and marketing for some years, I started my own marketing and PR Consultancy.  This I ran successfully for many years and loved it.

However, that itch to write fiction was still there and I began to put pen to paper (and typewriter) in my spare time.

I began by writing historical sagas.

Pauline rowson biography Author Pauline Rowson loves the sea and it has allowed her to create the unique sub genre called marine mysteries. She also enjoys adventure, heroes, and mystery. Horton is a flawed and rugged man works in Portsmouth and Isle of Wight. She is an acclaimed British author who reinvented the genre of police procedurals by setting them against an ever changing sea. She was raised in a working class house, and she was left to fend for herself, and she would create stories for her friends and then they would act them out behind her house.

They were all rejected, and rightly so, because at that stage I was still an apprentice, learning my craft. Over time I found that a criminal element kept creeping into these sagas, and I also discovered that I preferred to write from the male point of view. It was a while before it dawned on me that I should be writing crime novels with a male protagonist.

It should have been pretty obvious because ever since Enid Blyton I have devoured crime and thriller novels for years.

Pauline rowson biography wikipedia Raised in the city of Portsmouth on the South Coast of England my ambition to become an author was inspired at the age of eight when my best friend's mother took me to a new small library that had opened close to where I lived. There I found a room packed full with wonderful books all free for me to read and I discovered the amazing Enid Blyton. I wrote my first novel aged 11, long since consigned to the bin. It took me another forty years before I achieved my childhood ambition - life got in the way, that and a flourishing career in marketing and PR, running my own business and writing business books before I created the enigmatic Detective Inspector Andy Horton. I never looked back.

But the time spent writing historical sagas wasn't wasted. I learnt a lot along the way. 

It took me eighteen years to get published and even then there have been ups and downs along the way. Now, I am delighted to be published by the largest independent publisher in the UK, Joffe Books, and I am thrilled that I have twenty-seven crime novels published with two more to be published in - Inspector Ryga number five in the series and Detective Inspector Andy Horton number eighteen.  I'm currently writing Art Marvik mystery number five and, God willing and a fair wind, that will take me to the grand total of thirty published crime novels by !

I still love writing and creating new plots for my lovely heroes to solve and hope to continue to do so for a very long time.

My thanks to all my readers and to the great team at Joffe Books for making this possible.