Darth Vadar fan Geoff Cummings hopes he will be an inspiration to the blind after writing his first novel.

Stars Wars fanatic Mr Cummings, who has been blind since being struck down with glaucoma in the mid-1980s, hit the headlines earlier this year when he and his partially-sighted fiance Kath Kendall, 27, got married - dressed as Darth Vader and Princess Leia.

But despite his interest in sci-fi his debut novel is based on more down-to- earth subject matter.

The unemployed dad of Hirst Wood Road, said: "I've tried writing sci-fi but couldn't do it. I'd describe Dream on Mr Right as contemporary fiction with a bit of romance and a few thrills thrown in.

"The characters are loosely based on some of the people I've met and it's about an unemployed guy in South London called Kevin Right, who although he's unemployed has a high-flying girlfriend and quite an interesting life which runs in parallel with another woman's.

"They're always at the same parties but don't know each other and eventually end up in New York at the same time.

"I've also got a lot of other stuff on tape - short stories, poems even some songs - including a book of short thriller/horror stories, written under the name Dennis Keegan - so if I get this Brailler there'll be no stopping me.''

Mr Cummings, 30, has put in months of painstaking work to dictate his debut novel, Dream on Mr Right, on to cassette before getting a friend to type it up and is now bidding to get it published.

And he has plenty of other material up his sleeve and is hoping the London-based Electronic Services for the Blind and Partially Sighted charity will help him obtain a hi-tech word processor equipped with a Braille keyboard, which would allow him to type his own manuscripts.

But whether or not his books eventually become best-sellers, Mr Cummings hopes his literary efforts will inspire other blind and disabled people to chase their own ambitions.

He said: "It's very hard for disabled people to actually get into something interesting because they're always guided into the obvious things such as telephony for blind people.

"But writing's actually one of the few things the disabled can do just as well as other people - I've got my imagination and just talk all my stuff on to tape.

"If what I'm doing inspires someone else then some good will have come out of it even if the novels flop.

"Over the past few years I must have read 200 talking books and thought it was something I could do myself. I just started on the novel when I was stuck with nothing to do one day.''

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