I am currently editing and doing a fourth draft for my fourth book. Planned to finish and have 75,000 – 80,000 words by end of January.

On my fourth book I got to 66,000 words. Going to spend the rest of January getting it up to 70 – 75,000.

My name is Christopher C. Curtis. I am a writer with two books published and ready to buy. The writing is fiction. My novels are influenced by my travels, music and general life experiences, especially the people I’ve met along the way. As Kerouac once said: “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn,burn, burn“. – On The Road.

The process started in 1963 when I landed in Liverpool docks with my mother and brother. The unconventional travelling stayed with me. I’ve travelled around India on lets say very limited resources – the full moon parties were great though. Cycled around the South of France and visited most European cities on shoestring budgets. The highlight was travelling from Minneapolis to Miami in 1985. What a journey. Carrying weed in the boot, staying at cheap motels and stopping for stray hitchhikers – sorry Jack, but you ain’t got nothing on that journey.

The first book titled The 25th of October was self-published in 2018. The second titled When You Fall in Love With a Dying Woman was published by an independent publisher in 2021. The latter is available from Waterstones, Foyles as well as Amazon.

The 25th of October is about art fraud. Four London friends follow a trail to an aristocratic Italian art ring based in Turin. Football, The House of Savoy are featured.

When You Fall in Love With a Dying Woman is about a London architect who mistakenly receives a letter from a lady in jail in the the U.S. They correspond and feelings emerge. He arranges to visit her, only she hasn’t told him she’s on death row.