HOW I WANT TO BE REMEMBERED: BARBARA CARTLAND

In the year of 1998 I had the pleasure to talk with the world famous Arthur and much loved novelist Barbara Cartland, and after talking I wrote to her confirming that I intended to go ahead with my book writing. She was so encouraging, as was Terry Pratchet who I called TP after they both learnt of my industrial Injury and the fact that I was born minor brain damaged and suffered with slight dyslexia. I had explained how I refused to allow this to hold me down, and been a fighter at heart, (Nor Physically) I simply gave myself a choice to either sink or swim, and I was always a very good swimmer.

Since the Industrial accident only nine days after I was married, my life changed and I ended up needing an electric wheelchair for my main mobility, and after my second child was born, my wife could no longer cope with the injury to my spine, so sadly we separated and eventually divorced. I hold no grudge, I loved her and understood she had her dreams, and been married to a young man in an electric wheelchair was not one of them.

That said I learnt to focus my mind, and put aside what I lost and could no longer do, and focused and developed what was left to me. It was for these reason TP and Barbara Cartland were so encouraging to me and supported my book writing. I promised one day to write about Barbara Cartland, and include in within a book I had wanted to prepare, but to my great surprise she sent me a lovely letter and included a detailed book entitled HOW I WANT TO BE REMEMBERED.

So this is the very book she sent me, and due to the wonderful facilities of KDP, I present to my readers how in my eyes one of the greatest romance novelists of our time, if not the greatest, wanted to be remembered.
Chris Fieldwater.