In early September 2025, I was diagnosed with cancer. I am not looking for your sympathy with this post
I had attended a hospital appointment alone, expecting to hear good news regarding a recent CT scan. Instead, I was greeted by one consultant and three Macmillan nurses who told me the bad news. They wanted to do one or two tests to confirm their suspicions.
There is nothing medically that can be done so any sympathy, empathy or anything else is not going to make a difference.
I am still studying psychology at the Open University. It gets more difficult with each level but it is that degree of difficulty that is keeping my mind away from the inescapable.
I would have rather gone about my business without writing this post, but it’s Christmas, and I wanted to wish everyone well.
I will fade off into anonymity once again when I press the Publish button at the head of this page. I will copy this post for Facebook, but that is all I will do. I will not monitor or reply to any comments. here or on that other social medium.
Have A Merry Christmas (or whatever you call this time of year that marks the birth of Christ in the Christian Calendar) AND……….
Have a Wonderful and Happy New Year.
About Daniel Kemp
At the age of seventy-six, Daniel Kemp has started his second year of studying the science of Psychology at the Open University. He is a member of The Society of Authors and also a bestselling writer. However, in early September 2025, he was diagnosed with cancer. He is now in palliative care at home, being looked after by his ex-wife. When he was writing his novels, he enjoyed writing stories that appealed to those who liked challenging themselves to solve mysteries that were set out before their eyes, but they couldn't.
His introduction to the world of espionage and mystery happened at an early age when his father was employed by the War Office in Whitehall, London, at the end of WWII. However, it wasn’t until after his father died that he showed any interest in anything other than himself!
On leaving academia he took on many roles in his working life: a London police officer, mini-cab business owner, pub tenant and licensed London taxi driver, but never did he plan to become a writer. Nevertheless, after a road traffic incident left him suffering from PTSD and effectively—out of paid work for four years, he wrote and self-published his first novel —The Desolate Garden.
Within three months of publication, that book was under a paid option to become a $30 million film. The option lasted for six years until distribution became an insurmountable problem for the production company.
All ten of his novels are now published by Next Chapter Publishing Company which has added an edition titled The Heirs And Descendants Collection, which holds all four books of that series, alongside an edition titled The Lies And Consequences Collection which contains all four volumes of that series.
He is the recipient of rave reviews from a prestigious Manhattan publication and described as—the new Graham Green—by a highly placed executive of Waterstones Books, for whom he did a countrywide tour of book signing events. He has also appeared on 'live' television in the UK publicising his first novel.
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