Peter Bayley was born in London's East End and grew up in Essex, in the UK, where he lives.His love of music - live and recorded - has been a lifelong one. His broad musical tastes continue to bring him pleasure, relaxation, and inspiration for his writing, both non-fiction and fiction. His experience of decades of working - mostly for high-tech companies - in sales, marketing and business development roles, and later as a consultant, helping other companies to launch, sell and distribute their technology products and services, fuelled the authentic detail in his first novel, Unplanned.That same expertise and experience is behind his latest book SEAMLESS: successful B2B marketing, selling and account management, a uniquely useful and stimulating read for managers in any size of firm who are responsible for the sales and marketing functions. It offers unparalleled expert advice and experience for established or aspiring managers.UNPLANNED – in this story, set in a seminal week in his life, Phil Cross discovers that you can't have a plan for everything, and that marketing can be murder. His engaging work life, complicated love-life and eventual fate in the international business world make for a compelling novella. Each chapter has a rock music title and there is a Spotify playlist linked to the book.I KEEP THE LIGHTS ON - The eclectic short story collection for the discerning reader.What kind of short stories do you like to read?Science Fiction? Crime thrillers? Ghost stories? Spy stories? Something psychological?If you enjoy reading short stories that have something distinctive about them, whatever the genre, then you’re holding the right book. Do you like a twist in the tale? To be stimulated by the unexpected and to be surprised by a conclusion that you didn’t see coming? If you’re happy to be introduced to any kind of compelling narrator – maybe not a human one -you’ll find a favourite here. Sometimes you may have your own vivid recollection of the place and time in which the story is set. There’s variety of both among these stories – from Peru now, to Jupiter’s moons in a far future. I’m sure you like to learn something along the way, too. You might even realise that you have absorbed a life-lesson or a grain of truth.(Stories previously published in the two collections below).SOUNDTRACKS - a collection of 12 music-inspired fictional short stories, presents an excitingly wide range of genres and hot contemporary topics. In Sci-Fi, humankind has been forced by overpopulation and climate change to emigrate to a moon of Jupiter. In a 1940s Noir Thriller, a young New York nurse struggles with an abusive relationship. And what greater psychological drama could there be than a secretly devious schizophrenic? It also comes with a Spotify playlist of the pop, rock, jazz and blues tracks that inspired each story.THE WRITE ALL ALONG SHORT STORY COLLECTION - consists of 16 stories allowing the reader to travel into the heartland of America’s historic mid-west with a ghostly mystery about immigration, to New England for a tale of corporate graft, and to the Pacific north-west, where community cohesion really can save lives. In the post-pandemic City of London, can working from home really work for the new generation of salaried employees? There's even a frightening presence on a mysterious Dorset beach to contend with. All this in the company of a variety of interesting characters (not all of them human!). These are stories that are uplifting, amusing, dramatic, thrilling, worrying, strange and downright frightening.Peter Bayley tweets about music as Gym Blogs at GymMusicBlogs and about films as Billfritz Wilderlang at highgallows, reflecting two of his longstanding preoccupations.A selection of his business articles and commentary is on the Write All Along website. His Twitter handle is at WAAWriter.Read more about this authorRead less about this author