Penpals

Rob is a qualified electrician who loves growing roses and has a single figure golf handicap. Carlton is black, took his Masters Degree in Theology and is now a recovering heroin addict. Diane is a grandmother, a lawyer with diabetes and angina. And Jim is an incredibly talented artist with an IQ of 164. So, what do they all have in common? Well, they are all my penfriends. And they all currently reside on Death Rows in the USA. I first started to write to people as a hobby while I was at school. It was suggested that we all wrote to a French child to help us to learn the language. My penpal turned out to be Bernard - still a good friend almost 20 years ...

Aimee is 24 years old, live in Rotherham and has a passion for Sheffield Wednesday FC, going out, writing letters, working on her novel, driving her new car and meeting her penpals. Aimee is one of my best friends and I met her through a friendship book when I was 13 years old and from there we began pen-palling. I first started pen-palling as it is called roughly when I was around 10 years of age (a whopping 16 years ago); it was a school project in which we had to correspond with one or two people from another school in Derbyshire. The idea being that it would improve our communication skills as well as our literacy, punctuation and grammar. My ...

I can remember one particular year when I received post from over 120 different countries, some I had never even heard of before. I'd better be honest and say that this was because I published several worldwide Penfriend magazines and not because I had lots of friends! I did this for over ten years along with producing a Business Opportunity magazine. I started with one penfriend publication and can recollect the thrill when I first started receiving a reasonable amount of overseas mail. I bought a worldwide map, which I pinned to my office wall, and started placing red dots on all the countries from where I received a letter. As the magazine got more ...