Certainly, and thank you for spending some time with me today. My name is Petrina Binney. I’m a self-published author, originally from Croydon. I now live in Devon, with my partner, five dogs, two rabbits, three corn snakes and a whole host of axolotls.
My earliest surviving short story is framed in my bathroom. It reads, ‘Once upon a time, there lived a sheep who loved a cow. One day he kissed her.’ I was only about four when I wrote it but I’m still rather proud of that one. I continued writing stories until my teens and twenties, when I wrote a lot of poetry. I only moved on to novel writing in my thirties.
I’m four novels in to my first series – Sex, Death and Dinner – which is scheduled to finish in book five. Through the titles, I’m working my way through a big dinner. The first in the series was ‘Sex, Death & Canapés’. Then came, ‘Sex, Death & Scallops’, ‘Sex, Death & Venison’ and ‘Sex, Death & A Vegetarian Alternative’. The fifth instalment will be ‘Sex, Death & Pudding’. It’s been suggested that, if there is a sixth, it should be called, ‘Sex, Death & Indigestion’. We’ll just see how that goes.
In addition to the main series, I published a short prequel, ‘The Girl With All The Cleavage’, early in 2019. I’ve also written a collected memoir – ‘Other People’s Granddads: Stories From The Legion’ – which is a selection of service stories from the men of my local Royal British Legion and is being sold in aid of the RBL’s Poppy Appeal.
I’m currently working on a selection of short stories, which I intend to release over the next few months, and very much hope people will enjoy.
