About Me

Tollesbury, Essex, United Kingdom
I was born in the Summer of 1969 in Dagenham, just on the border of East London. School was largely unproductive but enjoyable, setting me up for something of a wayward but interesting life! On leaving school I had various jobs including putting up stalls at Romford Market, working in a record shop, putting up ceilings, gardening and road sweeping. After resigning from an insurance company to play in a band, I found myself unemployed for two years. Then finally I got back on my feet and I've been a psychiatric nurse since 1997. I wrote A Cleansing of Souls when I was 22 years old and followed it up with Tollesbury Time Forever almost twenty years later. I started writing The Bird That Nobody Sees in September 2011 and it was released in July 2012. In terms of writing, my heroes are Jack Kerouac and John Steinbeck. I would also include Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan and Tom Waits as literary influences. So that's me I guess - scruffy, happy and in love with literary fiction, music and life...

Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Some fine words that refuse to be silenced...

With I Woke Up This Morning just a few weeks away from being released (April 29th!), I thought I'd make a list of some of the words in the book that Microsoft Word appears to have taken exception to. Well. Unlucky Microsoft Word. They're in the book and there's nothing you can do about it...

disregardelised

shmurple

outerdoors

garble-arble

slumpings

humyellowhum

everloving

shuddershaking

blingabang

aaah

ploom

schloop

netherland

neverland

skyist

ologies

afterdays

heartbeating

throbety

krang

ang belap

denaaaar

blammering

blackeyes

coooool

blammed

roarvoice

clompy

uncheddar

dreambeauty

beautydream

squeeeeezed

pauperpit

mindsparkles

dreaaaary

lovedream

snugglebed

coldshiver

stardazzle

dazzlestar

strangerland

rocketbomb

coolhandluke

heartmoppings

ruinings

bouncersort

meninists

inbetweenists

chubbyarm

quarings

cornerland

gaycoughed

sighnodded

flinchtwitching

breezewind

hollowprayer

hoony balloony

woomph

scuffy

univerge

flidder

knobber

branstonboy

dreambreakings

tish

childwonder

jumperboy

lawnmorers

thwop

frugalise

hmmmmmmmmmm

jumpergay

scuttered

trudgeclomp

horizoned

brimmest
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