Two books and countless contributions amounting to what Annie Wilde calls 'a mountain's worth of words'. Not included here are poetry, book and record reviews (see 'Writing') and occasional blogs. Blimey, it's like a library in here. Shhh!
New book release
BUT – Life's Not Like That, Is It?
Stories of Disruption and Digression
That's the stupidly long title of the book I just finished writing and proofing and sending off to the copy-editors.
It's a book about stories, and a book of stories. How the stories we see and hear as films, novels and theatre aren't really the stories we experience in the real world. It's a big dig into storytelling and is mainly about the disruptions that stop our lives being simple narratives.
This book is threaded through with a travelogue mapped between my meetings with a variety of people – I've called them DISRUPTERS – who disrupted my own life in the best possible ways.
The book is a collaboration with designer/typesetter Christian Brett, who has worked recently with Penny Rimbaud, Sleaford Mods and Killing Joke. But possibly more relevant is the fact that I sit next to him for every Burnley FC home match. He's a sweary curmudgeon and his design and typesetting for the book is incredible.
The book is a collaboration with designer/typesetter Christian Brett, who has worked recently with Penny Rimbaud, Sleaford Mods and Killing Joke. But possibly more relevant is the fact that I sit next to him for every Burnley FC home match. He's a sweary curmudgeon and his design and typesetting for the book is incredible.
The book will be published by PM Press in the USA, in early February, and you can pre-order it here and get 20% off. Bargain!
But: Life Isn't Like That, Is It? is now available for pre-order. Use coupon code BUT to save 20% at – https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1727
"Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity." (Joyce Maynard)