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a writer's life

A brief extract from the life of a writer.
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Taking Comfort, the trailer.

This is a trailer for my novel Taking Comfort, available in the UK now. Coming to the USA in March 2007. Actually, the myspace version looks…
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  • London London, UK
  • 51 Male, Aquarius
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  • Member Since: 2006-08-20
  • Relationship Status: Married
  • Orientation: Straight
  • Drink: Yes
  • Smoke: No
  • Children: Proud Parent

About Me:

Writer. Of fiction.

Interests:

That would be the writing.,
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Favorite Music:

All sorts of stuff. Especially stuff with guitars., Then I've got to mention my friend the composer Ed Hughes and his group, the New Music Players. Ed wrote the music to that trailer for my book above. It's performed by the Bath Camerata and I think it's pretty stunning.

Favorite Movies:

So many.

Favorite TV Shows:

Anything where you have to phone in to get people evicted. Oh, that's pretty much all telly nowadays, isn't it.

Favorite Books:

Well I've written one, Taking Comfort, does that count? But of the others, off the top of my head, God this is hard.... let's start with Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Blindness by Jose Saramago. High John the Conqueror by Jim Younger. Life, A User's Manual by George Perec. Proust. Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware. Jean Rhys. George Eliot. Philip K. Dick. Camus. Zola. Homer's Odyssey. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. The stories of Chekhov. The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton. Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry. Thursbitch by Alan Garner. The Murder at the Vicarage, by Agatha Christie. No, seriously. Ask me tomorrow. Oh, and did I forget to mention Kurt Vonnegut?!!!!, Here's me talking about my own book:,
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