Teresa Nixon

 

I was born about two minutes down the road from where I'm currently living ~ in Peverell, Plymouth, England. In between then and now I've scarcely moved more than an hour away: Exeter and Bodmin Moor.

I've never been further than Jersey or Scotland either. So ~ not well-travelled then! Strike one...

I love this neighbourhood and it's a happy accident that I find myself here again. I was educated at the comprehensive school in Callington, Cornwall, where I managed to scrape by with the minimum requirements to work in my current job; Registration Officer for the Plymouth Land Registry. Brain surgery it ain't, but it keeps me off the streets…

I belonged to the church choir between the ages of nine and nineteen, never 'fell in with a bad crowd' or did drugs behind the youth club hall… God, I must have been boring! Strike two...

Later I helped found a motorcycle club here in Plymouth and tried very hard to rectify my hitherto dull life, but sadly for me, I'd be misinformed about bikers and discovered that all the ones I met were the nicest, funniest, most loyal people I could have wished to be with.
I must now face it; I'm destined to be middle-of-the-road Ms Average. Strike three - I'm out!

Ah well...

I'm now thirty seven years old, recently separated, with two sons aged twelve and almost three, and in the little spare time I have left to me I love to write. I'll have a go at everything and anything, but I have found myself leaning more towards what I've called my "ScaryFairy" stories for want of a more original name! I'm fascinated by the thought of such exquisite beauty having the potential for extreme evil…

The book I'm currently working on (working title; The Haunting Of Jonathan Riley) deals with this, as do my most recent shorts, The Guardians, Jacky Greencoat and Songs From The Wood. The aforementioned shorts can be found at BeWrite.

Having co-authored CHILL - a collaboration of short horror and sci-fi - with Peter Lee and Andrew J Müller I can now call myself a published writer, and still get a buzz when I see my name so close to that ISBN number!
You can pick up a copy of CHILL at most usual outlets for POD books online, or direct from the publisher at BeWrite.net.

I don't have any reviews to recommend me, nor do I have an impressive list of published works to show, but you've got to give me full marks for trying!

In the meantime I have a website to showcase my work, it can be found at www.thetalespinner.com and it shares webspace with my devotion to musician/producer/songwriter to the stars: Richard Marx.

My reading tastes are fairly wide, as are most writers', but my favourites include; Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, Tom Sharpe, Tom Holt, Anne Rice (except when she's being kinky!) Stephen Lawhead, Peter James and Jilly (bless her!) Cooper. I'd love to put in some really impressive names here like Tolstoy, Shakespeare and the like, but the simple fact is, I love a cracking good story told with a bit of humour, that doesn't tax my poor, addled brain - I think I'm an honorary blonde…

Please feel free to send me a personal note at my private e-mail address: terri@thetalespinner.com

Teresa Nixon has also written under the name Terri Pine

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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