Hello, and welcome to Ball & Quill.
I'm Nick Ball, and if you have arrived here expecting an author who has spent his entire life sitting quietly at a desk, surrounded by books and drinking cups of tea while waiting for inspiration to strike, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed!
My journey to becoming an author didn't happen overnight, it wasn't something planned over months or imagined, it arrived suddenly.
It sounded obsessed — “I'm going to write my memoir.” But why, after all I have a good job, why put myself through this? The truth is very simple, I wanted to do it, not to prove I could, I just wanted to do it for me.
Eventually, I decided that some of those stories deserved to be put onto paper.
For more than sixty years, life has taken me through its fair share of twists, turns, unexpected detours, challenges, adventures, laughter and, occasionally, moments when I've wondered who actually designed the road map!
I've worked, travelled, experienced the ups and downs of everyday life and collected more memories than I probably have storage space for. Along the way, I've discovered that the most interesting stories aren't always found in extraordinary places. Sometimes they're hidden in ordinary days, ordinary people and those unexpected moments that stay with us forever.
I have two special mates that join me on each adventure. As a disabled man, I have lived with Nystagmus and Essential Tremor — 60 years of challenges, hospital visits and experiences.
And so Ball & Quill was born.
Ball & Quill isn't simply about books. It's about stories, memorable moments. Stories inspired by real life. Stories created through imagination. Stories filled with humour, adventure, mystery, emotion and the occasional surprise waiting around the corner.
