{"id":80,"date":"2020-06-09T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trudynixon.com\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2024-05-07T14:29:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T18:29:43","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trudynixon.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Trudy"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Hello from Anguilla and thank you for visiting my website and wanting to learn a little more about me.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I call the Caribbean home now but I grew up in Wiltshire and spent my early professional years in London in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Photo of me looking smoother than normal \ud83d\ude42 by my talented friend Kevin Archibald, KSharp Media. <\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n

I am a ‘glass full’ kind of person and am grateful for the privileges I have received in my life. I try to make the most of this beautiful world we live in and am passionate about travel and it’s ability to enrich and inspire us. I will choose to enjoy a new experience – rather that own a designer handbag or drive a fancy car – every time.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

I was blessed with loving, intelligent and honorable parents, Marlene and Malcolm, who had many friends and loved to read and travel. My brother and I grew up on farm, we had lots of pets and there were plenty of places to explore and make dens. I had a wonderful childhood. They encouraged us to bring our friends home to play and treated us to an annual foreign holiday – usually in Spain.<\/p>\r\n

As a child I loved to read and draw and looked forward to passing round the food and drink when my parents had people over. I decided early on that I wanted to do something creative that involved going to parties and talking to people. After I graduated from Lancaster University I moved to London where, I worked and played hard for many years. I had interesting jobs in the Arts and Design industries and eventually got paid to go to parties.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

I miss my friends and family in the UK, but can honestly say I changed my life for the better when I moved to a tiny paradise, called Anguilla, in the British West Indies, having fallen deeply in love with it on sight,\u00a0 in 2002.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Many sunny years later I still want to do the things that captivated me when I first met the Caribbean: go to the beach, float around in the sea for hours, dance Soca, eat crayfish and drink rum punch.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

When not writing novels I make my living by writing and publishing TRUE Anguilla<\/strong><\/a> – a beautiful visitor magazine and website and producing TRUE Anguilla TV.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

To date I have published three books in my live, love, travel romance series: Endless Turquoise, Deepest Aqua <\/em>and True Blue<\/em>. Find out more about them on the Books page, or if you would like to purchase one you can do so here. <\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I’d love to hear from you and if you haven’t yet done so you can join my mailing list<\/a> and get updates on publication dates and special offers. I have plenty more stories to tell and hope to release a follow up to Endless Turquoise in early 2021.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

If you would like to know more about how I made the journey from the UK to Anguilla you can listen to this podcast<\/a> where I chat all about that, as well as my love of music, to my friend Crispin Brooks of Planet Thirty<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

You can also contact me via this website or on social media. I am active on Facebook <\/a>and Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Finally – if you are interested in visiting the beautiful island I live on please check out some of the accommodation on offer in TRUE<\/a> Anguilla Magazine.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I also run a small but perfectly formed (in my opinion) Air BnB called Hummingbird<\/strong> <\/a>– a great spot for writers who would like to visit without breaking the bank.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Cheers! The image above, showing me on my local beach, Mead’s Bay Beach, Anguilla was taken by another friend Gabi Gumbs, and yes, the sea really is that blue.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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