Joseph Sinclair

BIOGRAPHY:

Following National Service with the Royal Engineers, I read Government at the London School of Economics and then embarked on a commercial career in transport and shipping. Throughout my working life, many years of which were spent overseas, in Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Finland and Hong Kong, I retained a commitment to my leisure pursuit of writing. An enforced early retirement from the prestigious Sea Containers Group, led to a commission for a book on refrigerated containers by the World Bank in Washington DC and a request by Sea Containers that I freelance the production of a newsletter for their container division. Sixteen years later I am still producing the newsletter.

In the meantime I have successfully self-published Refrigerated Transportation, a second edition of which was recently re-published by the long-established publishers Witherby & Sons. My history of military transport, Arteries of War, was published by Airlife Publishing Ltd in 1992, the same year that I self-published the first edition of An ABC of NLP and founded the Authors’ Self-Publishing Enterprise with the acronym ASPEN. My writing career was put on temporary hold when a Finnish shipping line persuaded me to establish a UK organisation for them based in north-east England. The one-year I offered them became five years before I was allowed to take another “retirement”.  I remain a non-executive director of the shipping line.

Now I am once more devoting the major part of my time to writing, editing, and to promoting ASPEN.  Peace of Mind is a Piece of Cake, written in collaboration with Michael Mallows, was published by Crown House Publishing in December 1998. In the pipeline are other books planned with Michael Mallows: You May be a Group but are you a Team?,  You're Not Lucky, You Deserve It, Ifs and Buts and Not Choosing is Also a Choice.  

My novel The Torturous Scheme will be published in Spring 2001 and more information about this work will be placed on this website shortly.  A second novel, Kick Me, is still being written.

I have been a member of the Institute for Transactional Analysis, the International Co-Counselling Community, the Association of Humanistic Psychology and the Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. I am currently a member of the  Dorset Association of Complementary Practitioners and the Independent Practitioners' Network, both of whose newsletters I edit.  Additionally I edit and produce New Learning, a quarterly journal published by the NLP-Education Network.

Send me an e.mail: joe@aspen.globalnet.co.uk

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