Here’s a few of my latest videos. You can find them on You Tube by clicking here but the latest and most relevant are below.
Writing a book is a personal thing, especially when you are creating a piece of work that is semi-autobiographical and has its roots in your own life and background. Some of my videos are really just promotional works but others involve me trying to explain the background to ‘Floating In Space’ and my motivation in writing it.
I try to explain how the work grew from a desire to find my own voice as a writer and how I began by writing a series of essays that were different from everything I had written before. I eventually reworked them into the final book that you can find on amazon, just by clicking here.
To start with here’s a video of me being interviewed on Salford City Radio 94.4 FM. I explain about the background to the book, how it was written and the trials of publication.
Take a look at my other videos below. I am not a complete amateur when it comes to making video, I did undertake a training course in the 1990’s at the WFA in Hulme, Manchester and you can find the video I made there also on YouTube by clicking here.
This next one is about me taking a nostalgic visit back to Manchester City Centre and re-visiting the site of the Playground, the disco bar that appears in the text of Floating in Space,
For some of my more up to date non marketing videos, take a look at this recent cycling post!