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The Motivation

I live In Wales, UK, I’d like to tell you about a scuba diving trip in Scotland, on the Island of Mull, and how from that trip, it motivated me to write a novel even though I’d only spent two weeks – diving around its coastline in 1992.
I have also scuba-dived Scapa Flow, in Orkney, a group of islands, which lie off the northernmost tip of Scotland, doing around 30 separate dives, on two different diving holidays, and I wasn’t that impressed with Scapa. Perhaps, because it was snowing slightly on – both my visits and cold, so I’m not that keen to go back there a third time.

Now Mull, (Wow!) altogether, another story. We took two dinghies attached to our cars travelling up from Wales to Scotland, crossed on the ferry, and stayed in Tobermory in two chalets on the top overlooking the picturesque secluded harbour.

I can’t remember what the chalet is called, or the name of the campsite, but I remember we used to walk down the stone steps; tree lined with thick undergrowth each side to the front of the harbour, and into the Mishnish, a pub I’ll never forget. It made a lasting impression on me, as did the Island and harbour and the surrounding countryside.

We hardly cooked in the chalet, ate nearly every meal in the pub, typical divers. But there you go, we weren’t there to cook, but to dive, two, sometime three dives a day. Dry suits mind you, I’m not that brave, the water is cold despite the Gulf Stream passing nearby.

Anyway, Tobermory had a lasting impression on me. I researched the history of the Island, and wrote a thriller about a diving trip from Wales to Mull, and, of course, the Mishnish, Duart Castle, the harbour, the countryside, the people, and much more besides. The MacDougalls and the McLean Clans are also there, real people from the past brought back to life.

The whole action happens on Mull: Murder, rape, kidnap, greed, love, heroism, and self-sacrifice: and jumps out of the pages into the reader’s mind. A diving – time travel adventure – of a diving club going to Mull from Wales on holiday to dive, where they find a Spanish Galleon, Florenica, it’s still there somewhere in the Sound of Mull at the bottom, and… and… and… it was filled with gold. They find it, and it starts a chain of events that threaten the very existence of the planet.

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You’ll be able to get if from the Library; should I venture the words, buy it, and let me know what you think, leave a message on my blogsite http://roytomkinson.blogspot.com, or tweet me on Twitter, @RoyTomkinson, alternatively contact my publisher and they will pass it on.