Margaret Brecknell
– Author Of Celebrating Southport Lancashire Magazine readers may have spotted my regular monthly features on people and places from the region’s past.
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am incredibly fortunate to make my living these days as a freelance writer. Yet I didn’t find my dream job until I reached my fifties and even
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then it only happened because of an impulse decision to send an article about Samuel Johnson’s cat to a magazine.
usually performed in near darkness, apart from the occasion when I was so scared by my own words that I asked for the lights to be switched on.
From a very early age I showed a lot of enthusiasm for writing, possibly too much for my long-suffering family. I started out as a budding dramatist, who wrote and performed my own plays. One highlight each year was my Halloween “spectacular” which was
Despite this promising start, any hopes of becoming the next Stephen King were soon dashed when I began to turn my attention to non-fiction. At the age of seven or eight, winter weekends and holidays were spent producing a series of illustrated
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