Alongside a successful painting career spanning sixty years (including Portraits of foreign royalty and HM Queen Elizabeth for the British Embassy, Qatar) Mai has been writing and contributing articles to various publications since the early fifties. Ghost-writing and supporting others became a quiet passion and apart from a publication in 1977, Mai’s name rarely appeared as the author. ‘Echoes’ was a winning entry in an international short story competition, so she finished writing the first of her ‘Grey Series’ of paranormal mystery thrillers, finally writing under her own name. Mai is writing her fifth, now. www.maiwriting.com and www.maigriffin.com. p168, 200, 225