Failed Career #2: Professional Gambler

So much weird shit has happened to me over the last eight years or so that I had completely forgotten about one little piece of my past life until I remembered it after posting my bio from a decade ago.
I had completely forgotten my short-lived and totally unsuccessful career as a professional gambler – mainly [...]

How To Make Money As A Shameless Writing Whore

Yesterday I promised to reveal the secret as to how anyone (well, within reason) can make money out of writing.  Since then, I had some second thoughts, thinking that I would be better off to keep my big mouth because I could sell these secrets for $19.95 instead.
Perhaps I will too, one day – when [...]

My Karaoke Shame

Being a cruel and evil bastard who loves nothing more than a good bit of schadenfreude (enjoyment taken from the misfortune of others), I must admit to enjoying the first few episodes of each series of Pop Idol/American Idol (or whatever they call it in your particular country).
Like the rest of you, I’m sure, I’m [...]

The Best Compliment A Bad Writer Can Get

I got one of the best compliments for my writing that I could possibly get a couple of days ago.  Not this blog (that hardly anyone reads anyway), but for my real book, the snappily titled Propertastic’s Complete Guide to Hurghada Property and Egypt’s Red Sea Real Estate.
I gave a copy away to a really [...]

Marketing Is Bollocks – How to Blag a Job in Marketing (Part Two)

This is, sadly, the last part of my half-arsed attempt at writing my first book – the second part of how to get ino the field of marketing.
I know, it’s pretty pathetic that I gave up after less than 5000 words.  But here it is anyway …
The route I used was by pretending that I [...]

Marketing Is Bollocks – How to Blag a Job in Marketing (Part One)

Finally you get to read a bit of the content from my half-arsed attempt at writing my first book, which didn’t even get as far as halfway through the first chapter before I completely lost interest in it.  Hopefully my boredom threshhold has grown a little wider since then.
So here is the first half of [...]

Marketing Is Bollocks – (A Little Too) Foreward

Some more from my book that never was too be (becaue I was just too lazy to get more than halfway through the first chapter).
This time it’s the Foreward.  In most cases, I don’t know why people write them.  I feel that, as if to get my money’s worth from a book, I should read [...]

Marketing Is Bollocks – The Ego Has Landed

Another (small) piece from the book I started about marketing.
After writing the blurb, I went straight on to write about my favorite subject – me.
A decade ago, this wasn’t half as interesting following the madness that happened over the next ten years, but this is what I wrote anyway…
About The Author
Having the attention span of a [...]

Marketing is Bollocks – Cover Blurb

In my last posting, I said that I was going to publish the first sliver of a book I started writing about marketing – this was nearly a decade ago – before I lost interest and found better things to do with my time.
I am sure that most authors don’t really bother about the blurb [...]

“So What Is It You Actually Do?”

I hate it when people ask that question, or when I’m filling in some form and need to fill in the field labelled “Profession”.
Because I don’t really have one.  I usually just fill it in as “Company Director” or “Entrepreneur”.  I have heard some people like me call themselves “Serial Entrepreneurs”.  That does describe me [...]