Dave Weaver

A couple of weeks ago writer and broadcaster Leslie Tate graciously asked if I'd appear on his evening Dacorum Radio show in a double bill with the excellent Portuguese actress Marta Carvalho who was great company and obviously much more interesting than myself. I had a great time chatting with Leslie, and Marta, about writing, inspiration (or lack of), ideas and the process of creating a story, or at least the way I do it. I chose four favourite music tracks, designed to illustrate the lost art of tale-telling arcs in rock lyrics, but due to my rabbiting on only two of them got played; Procol Harum and XTC. Dacorum Radio's link to the interview is below, please have a listen: https://www.mixcloud.com/radiodacorum/dacorum-radio-interview-with-author-dave-weaver-by-leslie-tate-290120-2000-2100/

My collection of semi-biographical stories 'The Recordbreaker' is now live on Amazon Kindle. In this short anthology I've focussed on seven well-known figures from the past in the worlds of entertainment, sport and national/international news. Some are still famous, others maybe almost forgotten, but they all hold a fascination for me. They had a personal isolation from others around them and most of them left this world, despite their fame or notoriety, in tragic circumstances. They are one-offs; loners who perhaps gained a deeper understanding of life, especially in the leaving of it. Here's the synopsis: - A cold crisp morning on Coniston Water, forth of January 1967; Donald Campbell, legendary British speed recordbreaker, is going for the world water-speed record, possibly for the last time. Despite numerous set-backs all is set for triumphant success... - Its the seventeenth of March 1912 and Captain Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates, British arm...

Hi folks. My new collection 'Short Stories Tall Tales' is now live on Amazon Kindle: There are quite a few new and not-previously-available stories in various fields and genres though science fiction and horror/mystery are probably the prevalent subject matters. Please take a look if you like to read interesting tales of the bizarre, the fatalistic and the weird. There will be more Sputnik Digital publications soon, as trailed on the last two pages of this new book. To give you some idea of what you'll be getting, the publishing blurb for 'Short Stories Tall Tales' is as follows: 'An exciting and beguiling selection of short stories with a punch from speculative fiction author Dave Weaver: - A stranded space missionary loses his faith on a distant world before being given a chance to redeem it. - A man mourns the tragic accidental loss of his wife whilst enacting a bizarre pact with death. - The American government pressurise a famous Hollywood film directo...