Stephen E Pennykid has been writing since he took early retirement in 2005. His taste is eclectic and his imagination wide, darting from one thing to another with ease. This book is, therefore, a varied compendium of his output to date, comprising his non-fiction MisHits series - four volumes of personal Top 20's of singles that never reached the higher end of the British charts in the 1960's plus all of his short stories. These cover a number of genres including the Chief Inspector Robert Casey detective stories, some tales which could be termed 'women's fiction, two ghostly mysteries, and a couple of children's tales under the pen-name Eddie Penny.
About the Author: Born in 1952, Steve Pennykid grew up on a Leicester council estate built to accommodate new families after the war and the baby boom of the 50's and 60's. Steve was an only child and although he had plenty of friends with whom to play football on the green outside his home, he had time on his hands to develop his love of the written word, and as a child always had something to read whether it be a football annual at Christmas, a thrilling children's story or a Look and Learn comic. Writing though did not come until much later. Steve took early retirement in 2005, which gave him a few years to achieve a number of goals he set himself to do before he was 60. One of these was to write a short story and try to get it published. This was a big ask as he had never written anything before. However, it was achieved in 2010 when a local story-writing competition gave him the opportunity. By then he had written one story - The News from Spain. He began to amend this story to suit the framework required for the competition but it soon became a completely different tale - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. These are both gentle romances but Steve's writing has now become more eclectic with a number of other tales including two detective stories, from his Chief Inspector Robert Casey series, a couple of ghostly mysteries and two children's short stories and a non-fiction title under his belt. Steve also loves music and you will undoubtedly notice a common theme in many of his stories of titles and chapters containing the names of songs, particularly those from the 60's. His passion for music of this era encouraged him to write his own personal favourite, the non-fiction "MisHits of the Sixties" series. Steve lives in Loughborough and is married with two sons, a daughter-in-law and two delightful granddaughters.