When I was a student in order to help pay the bills and provide money for beer in the union I worked most weekends as a singing telegram. I dressed in a 'gladiator' costume which was not a million miles away from what Russell Crowe wore in the movie of the same name.
Squeezed
I once fell over Andrea Corr in a dark Irish pub. (She was bending down getting something from her handbag). She is tiny. I hurt my knee, she didn't care.
As a child I used to hide behind the sofa whenever Rolf Harris appeared on the TV. Now I Know why.
I had 4 different primary schools (I wasn't expelled my dad was a professional cricketer and although this looks cool on my birth certificate it meant we were always moving) and every time we moved it was just before I was due to play the lead in the school play or nativity. I was destined never to be an actor.
I once picked up a brand new company car from a Mazda dealership, parked it outside a shop and went in to buy a sandwich. When I came out it had been stolen. I'd owned it for all of 3 minutes. It was found burnt out in a remote farm 2 weeks later. 3 weeks after that I received 14 speeding tickets (speeding cameras). I spent the rest of the year trying to convince the police, the local authority & my employer of my innocence.
My dad was a professional cricketer - this looks cool on my birth certificate.
I have 6 spreadsheets full of ideas for books. It is a little depressing because unless I can write 5 books per annum I'll be dead long before I can write them all.
My last book - Love Byte - was shortlisted for the Rom Com of the year.
When I was submitting my manuscript - Love Byte - to agents one of them sent me an email that simply said 'Oh Dear.' Thankfully I didn't give up!
On the other side of the coin getting a review from a reader who enjoyed what you've written is the best form of encouragement you can get.
ABOUT SQUEEZED:
If your wife organized a threesome for you on your honeymoon, what would you do? Scott is shocked by his wife Hannah's suggestion, but hesitantly agrees to go along with it. Later, back home in Edinburgh both feel a little guilty about their encounter with 'Marilyn', but soon put it behind them when they discover Hannah is pregnant.
But soon their excitement is short-lived when on a snowy Christmas Eve Marilyn turns up on their doorstep, six months pregnant. Her presence in their lives causes all sorts of chaos and eventually Scott comes to realize that in life there is often a price to pay for everything. Squeezed is a story about family, and how sometimes we don't appreciate what we've got until it's gone