Hi there! My name is

Terry Melia

Liverpool, United_kingdom

Tales from the Greenhills – Tommy Dywer 2 weeks in the summer of ’76

by Terry Melia

6m Read Time

This Story's Blockbuster Potential Score

94%

Synopsis

During the sizzling hot summer of 76 in Liverpool, teenager Tommy Dwyer is rapidly approaching adulthood and dealing with the usual coming of age issues: temptation, gang violence, murder and helping to prevent the flooding of the streets with illegal drugs…

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Tales from the Greenhills – Tommy Dwyer 2 weeks in the summer of ’76

by Terry Melia

6m Read Time

This Story's Blockbuster Potential Score

61%

Synopsis

Read sample chapter

About Me

Devotee of fiction from all genres – reading at least one novel per week for the past 30 years…

Favorite Things

	Charity	Claire House children's hospice - Liverpool
	Coffee	Americano
	Book	Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove
	Superhero	Wolverine
	Movie	Bullets over Broadway
	Video Game	C & C Red Alert
	Musical	Grease
	Ice Cream	Neapoliton

Q&A with Vincent

How would you increase literacy?

By reversing UK Austerity - asset stripping all banks and expanding Libraries rather than shutting them all down

What are the ingredients for a blockbuster story to you?

Great intro - brief description - cracking dialogue

What are your top stories that entertain and/or inspire you?

CATCH 22 - a new laugh on every re-read

Lonesome Dove - pure escapism - marveling at a Master in switching viewpoints so effortlessly

Philip Pullman - Dark Materials trilogy

Do you have any advice to aspiring writers?

Read and read for at least 10 years and then start writing. Read in between writing

Do you recall how your interest in writing originated?

Marvel and DC comics - Doctor Doom, Superman etc. In a Childwall library - Liverpool, discovering wonders of CS Lewis and Narnia