My first novel, Blood Moon.

Hi, just to let you know my first novel, Blood Moon, will be uploaded to www.offthebookshelf.com at the weekend. I am looking forward to it. I have a facebook page under the name Robert H. Tempest, with update news of the book and of future novels. I look forward to seeing you there. Meanwhile, here is the synopsis for Blood Moon and I hope it's wetted your appetite for the actual novel.
BLOOD MOON
By
Robert H. Tempest

A horrific killing brings a police detective, animal expert and a 500
year old werewolf together in this triangle of horror. One must die,
two could die, but which ones will?


This modern day werewolf story is set in the quiet countryside of the Norfolk broads, the surrounding villages of Reedham, Halvergate, Freethorpe and the seaside resort of Great Yarmouth.
Detective Inspector Mike Hancox and his sergeant, Jim Darby, of the Great Yarmouth division are called in to investigate the horrific killing of a schoolteacher.
Hancox, a police officer for 30 years has, for the last 9 years, felt remorse over losing his children in a car accident, caused by a white dog crossing the road in front of his son’s car. Jim Darby has been in the police force for 10 years and is married to Hancox’s foster daughter, Donna.
With what they find at the scene of the crime and the information they get from the coroner, they are on the lookout for an escaped animal from a zoo or a wildlife park, possibly a wolf, as the witnesses recalled hearing a wolf howling, just before finding the body.
While performing the autopsy, the coroner finds a claw from an animal stuck in the body, and contacts an old friend, John Granger, and seeks his help.
Granger is not only an animal expert from the local zoo, but also a werewolf on a mission to find the beta-wolf that cursed his family into hybrids, hoping to kill him and lift a 500-year-old curse.
During the next few days a ten-year-old, Joanne Saunders, goes missing. A vagrant and Darby are killed.
Hancox finds out the truth of his children’s death and Granger comes face to face with the creature his family has been searching for 500 years.

Link to a new yahoo site for writers

The following is a link to a new yahoo site I have just started for writers. If you are a writer, please visit and maybe join the group. Thanks, Clive.http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/writersanonymousuk/

I need a favour.

At the moment I drive a Vauxhall Zafira, it is a car on the mobility scheme and in September the car goes back to the dealer as I have had it on a three loan through the Mobility scheme. However in a few months the family are planning to go on Holiday for a week and in the car I need space for my wheelchair, charger, ramps and the family dog. In previous breaks away, in this car, we have managed to load the car with the chair, charger, ramps and the dog, but the luggage has been a bit of a squeeze. I have a roof box, from a previous car, but no bars to attach it to the roof bars which the car comes with. The bars for this Zafira cost about £100 and in the long run would be a waste of money, seeing as the next car we are looking at, not only comes with roof bars, but the bars that go across. I need a favour from anyone on my list of friends, old or new, ( In Oxford area.) to ask if any one has the bars for the Zafira that we could borrow for a week. I would really appreciate it and look forward to any response. Thanks. Clive.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

To all the people out there, my friends, my acquaintances, my school friends, and work friends and even to those who are not on my list, I would like to take this moment in wishing you a Merry Christmas and a great 2010.
I remember the great times of the Seventies at Donnington Middle School (May it rest in peace) and I remember the not so great times. But when I do look back and by God, I have plenty of time on my hands at the moment to do it. I remember whatever happened, there was respect, there was a fine line we never crossed, but those days are gone now. Today there is no respect in this World, the kids of today, terrorise neighbourhoods, people, carry knives and even guns. The police have lost touch with what is right and what is wrong, the P.C brigade have made, not only this Nation, but this World a scared place to live in, where people are no longer aloud to speak their mind or allow people to fly their Countries flag, without offending anyone. The Comedians of today are University or College drop-outs, who think they are funny, I mean come on, if they are that funny, why is it that when there is a vote for the fifty great comedy moments on television, either Only Fools and Horses or Morecombe and Wise are at the number one spot.
The 21st Century was supposed to be better than the last, the future of mankind, instead it’s been about as much fun as a deflated balloon.
So I hope that from 2010 people get their heads out of the sand, Governments get their backbone back and we finally get a Comedian who is naturally funny and doesn’t speak like he was born with a silver spoon up his or her arse.
Have a great Christmas and lets try to make 2010 a better place to live in.

Looking for an Literary agent or publisher.

Writer's Guild
Registration number: 006573.

To any Literary agent or publisher looking for a new writer,

Rejection is a familiar word to me. Yet, it is not a word that applies to my writing but to the fact that my manuscripts are either “not for us” or “not a story genre for us” or “we could not sell this to our publishers.”

I am not going to waste your time with a diatribe of resentments or a lengthy autobiography. Suffice to say, however, that even though I have been confined to a wheel chair for some time, I did the “leg work” and enrolled in a creative writing course and I learned not only to write a story, but to being able to bring the characters and locations to life. When I finished the course I went through the story again and this time, I believed I had it right and again contacted agents and sent them the required chapters, and again I was rejected.

Yet, perseverance is the mother of success, so not only did I carry on contacting new agents, but found a new editor who liked my stories and writing and considered me as good, if not better than Stephen Booth.

Now, let’s cut to the chase – The first story I have for your consideration, which may fit with your budget, genre, or might even stop you for a minute to read it, is called Blood Moon. It is a contemporary horror story about a Detective from Norfolk who is trying to connect an unexplained murder of a schoolteacher, with a spate of local farmer’s cattle, sheep and horses, which have been slaughtered in their fields. During the investigation, the Detective has help from a zoologist and they realise that the mutilations and the murder were caused by a werewolf.

The next story I have, Never Say Die, is a thriller based in North Devon, where an ex-government agent, who now runs his own security consultancy, finds his past catching up with him and while he is on a long weekend break with his wife and child, he finds he has not only got to watch his back and stay alive, but still keep his past from his family.

My third story is called The Wheal Eliza Murder. The journalists have reviewed the manuscript, even though it was never published. Here is what one of them said:
“Now on the 150th anniversary of her [Anna Marie Burgess] death a book has been written about her case. It is the result of 8 years of painstaking research by Clive Woollands of Oxford, who combed through reams of documents on her inquest and [her murderer’s] trial in the North Devon Journal and Taunton Courier of the day… The book is currently at the publisher and Clive is waiting for their decision.”
This time the rejection came in the form of an excuse for “not having the funds to publish” the book!

I am currently working on a sequel to Blood Moon, called The Cursed Kiss and another horror story called Hell’s Angel.

Why an I placing this on a blog, well simply because a blog is the thing everyone seems to be doing and after literally sending letters to nearly every single agent that deals with fiction, in The Writer's and Artist's handbook from 2003 and The Writer's Handbook since 2005, I am fed up, not fed up with writing, but fed up with sending 3 chapters to agents with a stamped address envelope and getting enough rejection letters to wallpaper the bathroom.
So I am placing my introduction letter on a blog for all to see and hopefully someone out there will want to see what I have.

I look forward to hearing from anyone.

The turn of the tide.

Since my accident in 2005, I have had time to look closer at what is going on around me and to be honest I am shocked. As an amateur, still trying to get published, I remember the creative writing course I attended a few years ago and remember being told a few ways of finding a new story and that is to read newspapers or watch the news to get ideas, but as I am reading newspapers and watching the news, I am not finding new story ideas, I am finding how many ways people rip people off, manipulate them into believing the World's changing for the worse, the climate change and how the people up the top are awarding themselves big pay packets for doing sod all.Lets start with the cost of living. I remember as a kid, how Christmas was so special, the presents I received were so special, that I try to find the same thing for my children for them to enjoy, only to find the product is a cheap make and cost twice as much as it did in the sixties and early seventies. I remember the quality of a toy car, a Captain Scarlett costume, and how realistic it was and then today, I find for double or triple the money a costume made of cheap material a hat that doesn't even look like a Captain Scarlett hat. A toy car that once it comes out of the package, could fall apart in your hands. This is supposed to be the 21st Century, we were better off living in the 20Th Century.Then there is the climate change, the co2 matter and how everybody is blaming the climate change on people who leave a light on or use there car to get everywhere. Have we become in this new Century, mindless idiots who really believe everything a politician or a Government aided scientist, when they say, we have to cut back on driving our cars five miles less a week, make sure when you leave a room you turn the light off when it is not needed as it is melting the polar caps, the Himalayas is melting. The World is changing, yes it is but there is a simple answer to why this is happening and it is all what we were taught at school. Millions of years ago there was an ice age, where the whole world was covered in ice, In them days life on Earth wasn't prepared for anything like that and they done nothing about it. Today we know all about it and we have evolved into a species that can do something about it, we have tools, equipment to save this world from repeating itself or if the worse comes, to live through it. Now you are saying, I'm talking rubbish as the polar caps are melting not freezing and you are right. What I just mentioned is part of the cycle. Instead of an ice age, we are having a heat age if you like, it is still the same thing. The world is turning in a circle and the expression 'What comes around, goes around' comes to mind. This is what's really happening, but the politician's get on the band wagon and back the situation. Why? because they really believe what they and the scientists are saying? No, think about it, its not really hard to work it out. It's election time and they want the votes, once the election is over, see how many politicians are harping on about climate change.The politicians think they are superior, because they know they can treat you like mushroom, keep you in the dark and feed you crap. To be honest looking at what governments we've had in the last one hundred years, surely it doesn't take a genius to work out it has been the same two parties in charge of this Country. We vote in Labour, because they fed us crap on what they will do for the public, once they get elected and once they are in, nothing changes. Then after having enough of the lies, we vote the Conservatives in, again because they fed us crap and what changes they will make for us, and again, when they are votes in, nothing is done and for the 20Th Century, they have been feeding the British public crap and like the British public stupidly vote them in. Okay I won't say they have never given the public what they asked for, they have to throw us a treat now and again. But when they do give us something, like a tax reduction or a rebate, they find away to get it back, by putting something else up.The famous Council tax. This is a fine example of the public's gullibility and with the help of environmentalist's, the Government pulled it off.The local councils had people who sorted the the rubbish we throw away each week, out, until some bright spark came up with idea of the public sorting the rubbish out themselves and put it all in different bins. Fair enough a good idea, but because now that we are doing the work ourselves, did our council tax go down? No it didn't we are still paying the council money for what we are doing ourselves, then there is the the percentage of the council tax that goes to the police, each year it goes up and when you want a policeman, there is never one around when you want one. It is another way the government are ripping off the public.Then there is immigration. People from all over the world come here with the hope of living here. Is it because England is such a beautiful place to live? No, it's the free health care and the benefit's the government hands out to them.If you look back in history, you'll find that in August 1947, the Indian's won Independence from British rule. In September 1947, The Health service started in the U.K, by the end of 1947 and then onwards, how many Countries, India included have come here to live?As probably most people in the U.K you've probably watched U.K border force on sky and the I have watched in amazement how we have a problem with immigration. The amount of times I have watched as someone comes here, gives a cock and bull story and has a girlfriend or boyfriend here and the immigration people who have refused entry, have let them slip through their fingers, because they have given them 24 hours to see their loved one and when the time is up and have to go back to immigration to be sent home, they do a runner and then can't be found, another immigrant in this Country courtesy of the Immigration people. Then there is the part where immigration, on the tip off from someone, raids a restaurant and find an illegal working there and instead of being deported, because they have no passport (another loophole the immigrants know of) they are held in detention at the tax payers expense, until paperwork can be sorted. The law should be changed in this situation, if the person doesn't have a passport, because he or she has thrown it away, knowing well, they can't be deported straight away. The law should be changed that whether they have found a passport or not, if they are here illegally, they should be deported straight away.I read something a while ago about how the government both here and in America, during the time of the out-break of mad cows disease, how they Government could trace a piece of meat back to when the animal was born and raised, but couldn't trace a single illegal immigrant.Then once the immigrant is settled in this Country, they then start complaining how certain things the British people do, like sing the national anthem or fly the national flag, is offensive to these immigrants and what does the government do? Tell them to sling their hook and go back to the Country they came from if they didn't like how the British people lived? No, the Government told the British people not to fly the flag or sing the national anthem as it is being offensive. Then the government has got the balls to wear a poppy on remembrance day, knowing damn well that all the people who died defending this Country, died for nothing as their own Government opened the doors and let them in. It's about time not only the English, but the World, open your eyes and see how the Government's are ripping you off.