Peter Lee

It all started on 30th June, 1971, when I was born - a Wednesday child, typically "full of woe"! I was an only child, therefore spoiled rotten, and I had a happy childhood, if a rather quiet one, as there were no other kids living on the street. My prime interests at the time were digging holes in the garden, playing with Lego, and fancying the pants off the singer Toyah.
      I loved school and never missed a day of it, save for those when teachers were on strike. These days it seems strange, but when I left school with eight O' levels, English language was not amongst them. What makes this even more bizarre is that I passed English literature, French and German with flying colours, but my own mother tongue failed me. I had to add a re-take of my English O' level to my A' level studies, eventually passing it easily after a few weeks of study, then completing the set with three A' levels two months later.
      My love of writing started whilst I was studying at college. I had written two short stories in my spare time, thinking little of them, but then I discovered I had a flair for writing scripts which reduced my friends to hysterics. Over the months that followed I wrote dozens of plays and sketches, all of which went down a storm, and I loved writing them. To date, of my 360+ pieces of writing, around two thirds of them must fall into this category and I still love making people laugh in this way. As time passed, however, I also found that I liked to write stories, many of which could be classed as horror, and these proved to have a wider appeal, the silly stuff being more of an "in-joke" genre.
      After I left college I joined the Royal Bank of Scotland where I spent five years working in branches, doing everything from putting statements in envelopes to deputising for the manager in his absence. Things changed, however, and when their focus shifted from customer service to sales I moved on, joining the bank's internal management consultancy department as a business consultant. Whilst working in this role I spent much of my time in Edinburgh, which helped me to develop a love for the city, but when the department closed I moved on again, becoming a network administrator in another part of the bank, looking after hundreds of people and countless things with plugs and flashing lights.
      In 1996 I met Louise, the love of my life, at the gym we were both members of. Two years later I left the bank and joined an IT training company as a technical training instructor, a job I still do to this day, running courses in the likes of Lotus Notes and Domino, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft CRM, and Windows 2000. Louise and I now live together, having left home in 2000, and we're blissfully happy.
      So how did I find BeWrite? Well, BeWrite found me actually. One day I decided to build a website on which I could show off my writing. For many years I had attached the sentence "A Nasal Hair Production" to the end of most of my work, and so I decided to launch Nasal Hair Productions One evening, I received a strange e-mail from a man called Alex Marr who lived in Prague, asking if he could tell his dad about my site. I thought this was a strange question, so I replied to Alex, saying that if he felt his dad would like it then of course he could. Alex's response of "probably - he's a publisher" almost made me pass out. Soon after this I heard from Neil Marr, we became friends, and I joined BeWrite as their first author. It's almost like a fairytale I suppose, and the publication of "Chill" back in 2002 was the happy ending!
      So whose work do I enjoy reading? Well my favourite authors are probably Christopher Fowler, J G Ballard, Dan Rhodes, WIll Self, Glen Duncan, Roddy Doyle, Jonathan Coe, Mark Z Danielewski and James Ellroy. I'll always have a soft spot for James Herbert though, because his novel "The Fog" was the first "adult" book I ever read, and is probably to blame for bringing out the ghoul in me.

Visit Peter's site: Nasal Hair Productions

Contact Peter: peterlee@bewrite.net

Chill
	Never before has such a coven of devilish scribes stirred a witches’ brew of horror like this.These are not stories set in some far-off fantasy world and peopled by unlikely hags, banshees, warlocks and dragons.    They are tales that open at your local bus stop, with a casual conversation in the pub, on a weekend break, at a hospital reception desk, a country road, the local supermarket, a simple bedsit, the park, in the sunlight brightening a suburban kitchen, even at a village jumble sale.    The victims include a watchman in a mine, a secretary, a bookworm, a dowdy tax inspector, a woman with a liking for mail order catalogues.    Scenes open with an hour off from the office, a disappointing dinner party, a browse through the Sunday paper classified ads.    Ordinary people, in ordinary places, in ordinary situations.    In fact, people just like you ... and all on the very threshold of hell!    The chill sets in when you come to understand this basic truth … any of the terrors in these pages could be your own. The nightmares could become reality for you … just where you are … and at just this moment!    Terri Pine, Peter Lee, Andrew J. Müller and their fiendish friends have delivered ice-cold fear where we least expect it … on our own doorsteps!Are you sure you are ready for bed?    If so, let’s begin the Dance Macabre. Paperback ISBN 1-904224-08-3 £9.80 eBook ISBN 1-904224-03-2 £1.00 CD-rom ISBN 1-904224-11-3 £7.50
Kaleidoscope - A Spectrum of Short Stories
	Talented authors around the world were challenged to visualise a kaleidoscope image … and to craft stories around whichever colour struck them most strongly. The result is this exclusive collection of thirty-one short tales of between a few hundred and several thousand words. Each story is inspired by a colour. But the work covers a full spectrum of genres from romance and humour to horror and violence. Just twist the Kaleidoscope and experience a striking and unique new image every time. Stories by: Roy Barton, Mike Broemmel, Sarah Crabtree, Matthew Gaunt, Joanne Hanrahan, Chris Hunt, Barry Ireland, KJ Kofsuske, RD Larson, Peter Lee, Jay Mandal, Marion Moon, Andrew J Müller, Teresa Nixon, Johnny Nys, Carmen Ruggero and Troy L Smith. All royalties from sales of Kaleidoscope are being donated to The Myasthenia Gravis Assocaition, thanks to the generosity of the contributing authors. Paperback ISBN 1-904492-14-5 £9.80 eBook ISBN 1-904492-12-6 £1.00
The Creature in the Rose
	Every rose carries its sting. Don't look for warmed-over tales of love's sweet harmony in these stories. They speak of the dark side of love, where an anti-Cupid aims poisoned arrows and where love songs are jarringly out of tune. Yet this is much more than a book of tears. We clearly see that, where human frailty might prevail for a petal of time, true love quietly abides. You will find your own story in this anthology - whether told in terms of stark tragedy, chilling terror, blinding mystery, or black comedy - and you will be warned, next time, to look before you love … or allow someone to love you. If there is a next time! Here, masters of the short story art remind us that often we dance through panic to the end of love … because there is a creature in the rose. Contributing twenty-two exclusive new tales to this book are twenty-one masters of the short story art from continental USA, Hawaii, Canada, UK, continental Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Your authors are: Jos Bhuiyan, Teresa Nixon, Geordie Robertson, John Sales, Bryan Hemming, Kathleen McGurl, Nicholas Lage, David Hough, Luisa Capelo, Peter Lee, Les Crawford, Mike Broemmel, Jacques Preiss, Andrea Gardner, L Roger Quilter, William Starr Moake, Barry Ireland, Sally Quilford, Sarah Higgins, Karen Noble, RD Larson. Paperback: ISBN 1-904492-13-4 £9.80 eBook: ISBN 1-904492-31-2 £1.00

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