![]() Publisher can do almost everything Adobe’s InDesign does, only at a much lower cost. Affinity Publisher has a low one-time purchase fee, not a subscription model like Adobe uses. instead of the very expensive Adobe InDesign program for my final formatting and typesetting. I use Affinity Publisher from Serif Europe Ltd. What tools or companies did you use, and what experience did you have? ![]() However, the upfront costs of self-publishing, assuming you hire a professional editor, etc. As well, the royalties offered by traditional publishers are so very low that I wanted to publish in a manner that was substantially more financially rewarding, per book sale, in the long term. I wanted to retain complete editorial control over the whole publication process. It was so much fun learning all these new things! I had to research so many new things that I had never thought I’d be researching, for example, poisons, Semtex and C-4 explosives, the pathology of body decay, Pegasus spyware, CSIS operatives, police super-computers, and travel through Europe. It turned out to be just that as I had a ball writing my very first work of fiction. And having an innate curiosity and a love of solving problems, I thought that writing a novel would be a fun and exciting new hobby. My career has been in electronics and software engineering and, now in my retirement, I wanted to do something completely different, but fun. As well, recent events reported in the news were an inspiration for some of the story threads. ![]() The chosen site of the fictional murder is a favorite spot for my wife and I to sit and relax and would be the last place on earth you’d ever expect to find a murder victim. Detective Inspector Brian Golding of the Ottawa Police Service soon gets embroiled with poisons, bomb plots, political intrigue and a twisted, vicious serial killer. The story begins with a murder at a local historic site on the shores of the Ottawa River. They say “write what you know” for newbie authors and having lived in the Ottawa, Ontario region for the last 42 years, I wanted to write a novel that featured our fine city. His undying resolve to excel at everything he does and to solve his own mysteries, technical or fictional, has led him to create a fascinating hero character in Detective Inspector Brian Golding of the Ottawa Police Service.ĭavid lives in Ottawa with Sandra, his wife of forty-six years. He has been an avid reader of crime mysteries for the last twenty-five years and loves to watch crime TV series. His career has been in electronic and software engineering but, now retired, David is focusing his energies on his new passion of writing crime mysteries. ![]() David was born and raised in the county of Suffolk, England and emigrated to the Ottawa, Ontario region of Canada in 1980 with his wife, Sandra. David Lorne Harrison is a first-time author, writing as Lorne Kent. ![]()
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