Another Brief Encounter

About Mary Spicer-Davies

Born into the farming fraternity Mary Spicer-Davies considers herself privileged to have had an upbringing that offered so many opportunities and fortunate in having been educated at a good private school. She has a great affinity still with the countryside and everything in it yet has always enjoyed excursions to 'The Big City'. She married an engineer and together they ran his company for some forty years. Her writing then consisted mostly of letters and promotional material. Sad to relate that many such letters were in pursuit of payment for services rendered to very large manufacturing companies with household names. On occasions she wrote short stories for her many nieces and nephews and a growing desire to write a novel caused her attendance at a literary weekend of lecture and workshop of Frederick E. Smith author of 633 Suadron among other works and Moe Sherrard-Smith author and publicist. Such was the quality of expertise among the fifteen or so participants that she left the conference with no confidence in her own ability and it was several years later that the seeds of Another Brief Encounter began to germinate. Even so time for the 'indulgence' of reading and writing did not arrive until after the death of her husband. Various books left behind by visitors to her apartment led her to believe she could write in some cases equally as well and in others possibly even better. As a family member pointed out too there are many different types of book. Thereafter Another Brief Encounter was resurrected continued and completed in a short timescale. Replying tongue-in-cheek to an advertisement by WRITERSWORLD Mary spoke with principal Graham Cook who offered to read the manuscript and later over a pleasant lunch together publishing was agreed upon.