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I'm Alp Mortal

Thank you for visiting my website. I hope you're enjoying the stories. On this page, I just wanted to give you a little bit of information about myself.

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I'm English by birth, from the Isle of Wight, living in Newport, and spend part of the year in the USA, co-managing The Carter Seagrove Project LLC - an independent publishing house, incorporated in the State of Indiana.

I will be 52 years old in 2017. I only started writing in 2009, proving, I suppose, that it is never too late. I didn't think about self-publishing until late 2012, now, more than four years later, I'm even more energised by the process than ever before.

I'm a qualified English teacher, specialising in teaching English as a second language (TEFL), though I don't do much of that now. In the distant past, I taught software skills. In the very distant past, I was a project manager on big IT projects, and at the very beginning of my career, I was an Internal Auditor. I have degrees in Internal Auditing, Computer Auditing, and Project Management.

I speak French [I translate the manuscripts of Chambers Mars for The Project].

My interests are many and varied but I am never very far from a good book, a good film, and a good song, or the kitchen {I cook with a passion}. I love dogs. I weave. I am a student of Metaphysics {and the metaphysical poets, of whom Donne is my hero}, Gestalt Theory, Synesthesia, and Solipsism.

I have a thing for John Donne, T S Eliot, the Comanche, and English sports cars, and latterly, a thing for the poet John Ashbery.

My all-time favourite author is Emile Zola; and Nana is my favourite novel by Zola.

I'm a member of The Society of Authors, The Society for Editors and Proofreaders and The Independent Author Network.

I have no great philosophy except 'energy follows intention' and 'honour your gifts'. These two principles keep me sane, very happy, and exceedingly busy!

I am always very happy to receive your feedback. If you wish to contact me directly, please email me at: alpmortal@hotmail.com.

Together with Chambers Mars, I am half of Carter Seagrove, author of Dust Jacket and The Inspector Fenchurch Mysteries.

Alp Mortal, Chambers Mars, Shannon M. Kirkland, and Morgan Starr are The Carter Seagrove Project LLC - an independent book publishing co-op. Find us at www.carterseagrove.weebly.com, on Twitter @carterseagrove and on Facebook www.facebook.com/thecarterseagroveproject.


Favourite authors = Emile Zola, Agatha Christie, Joseph Conrad, Albert Camus
Favourite Poets = John Donne, T S Eliot, John Ashbery
Next cities to be visited = Berlin, Rome, and Madrid
Currently studying = Plant Neurology


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[ps - Alp is short for Malpin]


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