Roy Harris is a retired British rubber Manufacturer who now lives among the rubber plantations of Thailand's eastern seaboard. His other business interests included a Travel Agency specialising in cruise holidays and a Fashion Boutique both based in Sacramento, California. He also had part ownership of a Computer maintenance company who both assembled and serviced computers, with offices based in England and Ireland. He visited Sacramento every other month, and after attending to business would often drive over the Sierra Nevada Mountains to Lake Tahoe and Reno for relaxation, before continuing on to the Far East. Keeping in contact with his customers and raw material suppliers kept him in the air for usually, about 175,000 miles each year, visiting over 60 countries. His early hobby of long distance bicycle racing developed into compering in motor cars rallys. His next step was to join the British Motor Racing Marshalls Club, were he became treasurer of their southern region. The Marshalls Club assisted private car clubs to hold motor race meetings for their members and guests, This enabled him to visit various race circuits in Britain and Europe. s his business interests put pressure on his time his motor racing pastime took a back seat as he needed more time attending to business matters. He always considered flying to be two periods of terror, take-off and landing, separated by a period of complete boredom. So from an aircraft seat he started writing. Mainly short stories, written for pleasure not money, although many have been published in regional and trade magazines

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