New Book: First Draft

My latest book First Draft is now available to download to your Kindle from here.

The audio book version is available to download, either free or pay whatever you like, (I said pay what ever you like. By the way, PayPal take just shy of half, just saying), from here.

I write music and comedy reviews from time to time for The Nottingham Evening Post, (as I still call it), and usually am required to write 200, 250, 300, or 350 words. My trouble is that I write far too many notes during gigs, and think up clever lines on the way home. The finished product has to be emailed to my editor overnight, so I write it up as soon as I get home. Hitting the 'word count' button usually tells me that I have written far too much, and the agonising process of chopping the article to bits follows. This can take longer than actually writing the bloody thing. I thought it a shame to waste all those poor rejected words, so I decided to put together the reviews from 2012 in their pre-edited form.

There are a few reviews that aren't included, this is because like a twat I hit 'save' instead of 'save as' and the originals disappeared.

Going back through the reviews and attempting to put them in order was a bit of a task. They are saved on my computer as 'Gig name first draft' and 'gig name final draft', but I haven't dated or numbered them. I therefore had to go through my 2012 appointments diary to put them in order. It's funny how long a year is when you go back over it in such a way; I remember how cold it was at The Nottingham Playhouse in February, how we seemed to go in phases of visiting the same venue, and how my girlfriend stopped me from having sex with a member of my laminate five.

Enjoy the book, if you're not inclined to read then you can listen to the audio book as a whole album. I have set the Kindle price to be as cheap as possible, and I only get a 30% royalty.