Lance was a Teacher of High School Mathematics for forty six years who always yearned to be a writer. Aged twenty, he sold his first Short Story to a Sunday Newspaper but decided he would not be able to earn a living and support a wife and family on such meagre returns. Retired at age Sixty Five he tried various hobbies, then finally took the plunge, self published his first book four years ago and is now about to publish his fourth book. The first book The 'Charzi' tours was a true travel book about his families many journeys through India by car in the Fifties and Sixties, and totalling about forty thousand miles, covering the length and breath of India. Next a book 'Burnt Hill and Other Short Stories', set in Mussoorie a small town in the Himalaya mountains. This was followed by a novel, Grantly Grammar, based on the search for a peadophile, in a Private Grammar School and now finally Kosokvia's Roses, about a Collector of all things beautiful, including beautiful women. The next novel is already in the pipeline Life can be wonderful