About Me — Byron George. Byron George is the Nom de Plume that I…
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The Author Byron George at his favourite Restaurant “Leng Kee” Pattaya, Thailand

Byron George is the Nom de Plume that I use for my more erotic and sexy writing. As most of my writing on Medium falls into that category, though not all, that is the name for here.

A.K.A. Brian George

I write my normal commercial adventure novels under the name of Brian George, those are my real first two names.

I was born in Barking, which is now in the east end of London but back then was just across the border in the county of Essex. I would call myself a Cockney but technically don’t meet the criteria although both my parents did.

I was a Mod in the sixties and grew up loving the music of the era and was at the Isle of Wight festival the same year as Woodstock looking more like a Hippy by then. They were the best days of anti-establishment, rebellion against the rules of the old ways. We used to be made to wear suits and ties to go to the dance halls and the girls had to wear skirts or dresses. I was thrown out of the Ilford Palais because my girlfriend of the time wore a Mary Quant Pant Suit. We physically fought the Bouncers who tried to make us put the ties back on and our jackets. We fought the Rockers(Bikers) on the beaches at Bank Holidays. Pirate Radio ships broadcast the music until the government outlawed them and made us listen to the boring old BBC again, creating Radio’s 1,2,3,& 4. Radio One was to satisfy us and it did for a while because they imported the old Pirate D.J’s. The later Socialist M.P. Tony Benn was the minister that brought in the ban and I never forgave him, despite his trying to be the people’s hero. He claimed that the Pirate Radio ships interfered with emergency services radio waves, not that there were ever any incidents of that. It turned me against believing authority ever since. I still follow politics and have been a member of the Labour Party but would still fight anything that interfered with youth culture ever since, especially as the old witch Thatcher blamed the sixties for the downfalls of society.

I’ve been a reader of anything that I could lay my hands on since my childhood and a writer since schooldays. Apart from letters, specifications, contracts etc. related to my career in construction and engineering and a few poems, I never published anything until 2014. Then I wrote and self-published 3 novels in a year. 2 erotic as Byron George and 1 adventure/thriller as Brian George. Since that time, I’ve written 5 more as Brian George, & published 3. The other 2 I’m actively seeking a Literary Agent to promote to traditional publishers.

I played rugby for Barking Rugby Club from my late teens until my forties when I started working abroad. My nickname as a short, stocky prop forward was ‘The Flying Pig’ hence my logo on Medium. I sketched that many years ago and have lost the original but still love it.

I try to write as many articles and blogs on Medium as I can per week.

I have spent the last 25 years up until 2018 working on large Industrial Engineering contracts as a Project Manager or in other managerial roles. That gave me the opportunity to travel to many countries on somebody else’s money.

I’ve lived and worked in the middle east starting with Saudi Arabia, then Yemen, Qatar, U.A.E., primarily and others I can’t remember. I lived in Thailand and worked from there around the Asia Pacific region in South Korea, China, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and short visits to others. I even lived in France, Belgium, Spain, and travelled the rest of Europe.

I was always an entrepreneur and had businesses along the way, mostly for me as a Consultant but I tried and failed in property in Europe during the big financial crash when I got ripped off by a crooked developer, lost my retirement money to that and in turn lost my house in Thailand which I absolutely adored.

I sing and play my Harps at every opportunity and played in rock bands across Asia. Especially in Tianjin, Qingdao, Manila and Wanchai, Hong Kong.

Growing old disgracefully again, rockin’ til the early hours and drinking the night away when possible.

I live with my wife in the UK at present. She never came with me when I worked overseas, and we were often apart for many months at a time. I will start travelling again as soon as the virus and finances allow, she hates the travel apart from holidays and wants to stay in the rural village we live. One day we’ll probably drift apart again except for family ‘does’ as my life will hopefully return to being peripatetic. I’m crowdfunding for an RV at the moment https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-freedom-to-roam.

I have a daughter and son who have produced 4 beautiful grandkids and who are making me feel older than necessary. Mentally I’m still in my twenties and just as rebellious. Hence my motto “Grow Old Disgracefully.”

These days I’m a Freelance Copywriter, Blogger, Article Writer and Novelist and my days are full of marketing myself, applying for gigs, writing, writing, and writing. This is what I should have done from my early teens, but I needed the life experiences to write about. The different cultures, the people watching and the sexual escapades that occur in the erotic stories told in my Medium Articles.

My Novels in the “Dream team Trilogy” are now for reading online. I have a new Patreon set-up: https://www.patreon.com/BrianGeorgeAuthor?fan_landing=true

I have an Amazon Author page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brian-George/e/B00M3OL7I0?ref_=dbs_p_ebk_r00_abau_000000

Or you can buy my books at various online booksellers:

https://books2read.com/b/bx8goJ

You can also find me on all the usual social media look me up on any of them, if you don’t seem a threat I’ll usually chat at some time:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-george-43a2151a/

https://www.facebook.com/byron.george.3

https://www.facebook.com/FlyingPig001?ref=bookmarks

https://www.facebook.com/soulwriters.net/

https://www.facebook.com/BrianGeorge110231790357164/?modal=admin_todo_tour

https://twitter.com/BrianGeorge87

https://www.instagram.com/briangeorgebygeorge/?hl=en

How does a cute kid go from this:

Through the ages

To look more like this:-

Lockdown beer belly has got to me, but I still do the meditations and Pranic Healing, keep commenting on my story’s my friends. Live for now and laugh at life and you will have a fulfilling time gaining life stories forever. Fight racists, fascists, & dictators and the extreme right wherever you can, read between the lines at those that stir with rhetoric the lowest common denominator before they rise up and come for you. “Be always ready to leave at a moment’s notice,” was some of the best advice I’ve ever read, from a survivor of the German pogroms. I have taken it to heart and believe that my government would behave the same way if it could, and the advent of Trumpism is more reason to be ready.