Bio

Before becoming a writer, Colin Bell was a TV producer-director and executive producer making arts programmes for ITV, Channel Four, BBC and for American, Japanese and German broadcasters.

His novels, Stephen Dearsley's Summer of Love (long-listed for the Polari Prize) and Blue Notes, Still Frames are published by Ward Wood Publishing. His poetry has been published in the UK and the USA where he was nominated for the 2016 Pushcart Prize. His first poetry collection, Remembering Blue, will be published in 2018. His Fibonacci poems have been set to music by American composer, Tim Risher, in a song cycle for tenor and piano called Fibonacci Poems (2017).

Under his 'cyber' name, wolfiewolfgang (www.wolfiewolfgang.com), he writes his almost daily blog with comments, photographs and observations about things that take his fancy, make him laugh or just get up his nose.

Orpheus uses his musical skills to persuade Hades, the king of the underworld, to let Euridice,
his dead wife, come back to life, but neither Orpheus nor Euridice can look back when they leave
Hell. Orpheus can't resist seeing his wife again. He turns to look. She dies a second time.