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I seem to have been writing all of my conscious life, although with gaps such as the almost four years I was in the US Navy, although the last year of those produced a play, PHYSICIAN FOR FOOLS, that was staged in the US and Britain (Oldham Rep). The eight years I spent teaching in a couple of universities were also barren, again except for a play written in the last of those years (PAPP), also staged in the US and Britain.
Short fiction has escaped me since I left undergraduate college, as has 'literary' fiction; I've always written genre novels. My favorite is the first, perhaps because it was the first, OUR JO (1972), a comic historical about a 17th-century actor, Jo Haines, that was never, alas, published in the UK. I also wrote some under the pseudonym George Bartram, most not published in the UK except for THE SUNSET GUN and MASTER OF SECRETS. With my son, Christian Cameron (author of THE TYRANT and WASHINGTON AND CAESAR and others) I (we)wrote the Alan Craik novels under the pseudonym Gordon Kent. These military-espionage thrillers used our shared experience in the navy; all were published first in the UK. Of the eight, I prefer the final two for their darker tones (SPOILS OF WAR and THE FALCONER'S TALE).
I've written some non-fiction, and it's a good respite from writing fiction: research keeps one honest. AFRICA ON FILM was a good book, I think, and well received (MLA Award for Independent Scholars). An earlier one, INTO AFRICA: THE STORY OF THE EAST AFRICAN SAFARI, was published only in the UK. (Although Amazon US has it as a travel book, it isn't; it's social history.)
Nowadays, I enjoy writing the Denton mysteries (THE FRIGHTENED MAN, THE BOHEMIAN GIRL, THE SECOND WOMAN, more to come). The mystery novel is a kind of social comedy, a genre that seems to fit me. I suspect it's significant that I, an American, write about an American in London - the advantage (the mask?) of the outsider. The books are placed in the early years of the twentieth century, making me an outsider there, as well; it would perhaps be better to write about my own time, but at the moment I'm happy with things this way.
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