Gerald R. Wright

Bedfordshire-born Gerald R Wright was educated at The Cedars Grammar School, Leighton Buzzard.He served his National Service with the Royal Military Police in Cyprus during the emergency and later, spent time in the Civil Police Service.A career change saw him in Local Government working within the Finance Sections of two Local Authorities, until 1974.In 1978, after obtaining a degree in Education at Southampton University, he took up teaching, and spent the majority of his career at a large Comprehensive School in Dorset teaching Geography and Business Studies.In 1997, he took early retirement and in 2001, he and his wife relocated to Spain's Costa Blanca.Some of his Military experiences are included in 'Under the Queen's Colours' published in May 2012, by The History Press, in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.His first novel, 'Farrel's Last Case', was published in 2013 by Trafford Publishing in the United States. Currently, he is working on a sequel, due out in late 2014.During his association with WordPlay Writers' Forum, he has completed 'Witches' Mountain', in addition to contributing to a number of its anthologies, one of which, 'Shorts for Autumn', won the U.K. Writing Magazine's First Prize for anthologies in 2012.Favourite genres are Crime, Westerns, War, and 'Mystic' tales.