colin cotterill

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Hometown:

wimbledon

About Me:

Colin Cotterill was born in London in 1952. He trained as a teacher and worked in Israel, Australia, the US, and Japan before training teachers in Thailand and on the Burmese border. He spent several years in Laos, initially with UNESCO and wrote and produced a forty-programme language teaching series; English By Accident, for Thai national television. Ten years ago, Colin became involved in child protection in the region. He is still involved in social projects and has recently set up a book and scholarship programme for his beloved Laos (www.colincotterill.com)
All the while, Colin continues with his two other passions; cartooning and writing. .His work with trafficked children stimulated him to put together his first novel, The Night Bastard (Suk's Editions. 2000). Since October 2001 he has written nine more books: Evil in the Land Without (Asia Books December 03), The Role of Pool in Asian Communism (Asia Books, Dec 05), The Coroner’s Lunch (Soho Press. Jan 05), Thirty Three Teeth (Soho Aug 05) Disco for the Departed (Aug 06), Anarchy and Old Dogs (Aug 07) these last four set in Laos in the 1970’s. The fifth book in the Dr. Siri series, Curse of the Pogo Stick , has just been completed.
Since 1990, Colin has been a regular cartoonist for national publications and produced a Thai language translation of his cartoon scrapbook, Ethel and Joan Go to Phuket (Matichon May 04) and an anthology of his bilingual magazine column ‘Cycle Logical’ (Matichon 06). Colin is married and lives in Chumphon in the south of Thailand where he decapitates coconuts and rides his bicycle along the coast.

I Am A:

Writer

Website:

http://www.colincotterill.com

Books And Authors I Like:

Usually non-fiction. Most anything by Paul Theroux and Bill Bryson, and any old travel books. My favourite of these is A Dragon Apparent by Norman Lewis

Movies And TV Shows I Like:

I don't have 'favourites' as the shows and movies i like change with the seasons. i recently got addicted to The West Wing (pirated edition). Movies usually hit the spot once then get old in a hurry.

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  colin cotterill

  hello lj
  i guess that's why we can never aspire to be marketers. so, how did you get away with the sex club? cc

  Apr 24, 2008

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  Linda Brown

  Oh, Colin -- you have to come back to L.A. -- people are positively whining about it! Pogo is jumping off the shelves, but it would jump higher if you were here to sign it and charm everyone... Linda at The Mystery Bookstore

  Sep 25, 2008

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  Linda Brown

  There's an old joke here in the States, maybe you know it: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help; the check's in the mail; and..."

  Sep 26, 2008