Agent Alert: My books in a nutshell:

The Expensive Cravat and the Defining Alternative Media are published. Quotilucious, the semi-serious book of factoids I put together originally for publication on Twitter (Now X) and my popular history book, Did Hitler Eat Strawberry Cake? are all mapped out and ready to go... 

I've also got two new projects, a second action-packed crime novel, and a local history book that focuses on Cornwall's capital through the lens of Truro Cathedral...  Shit Views of Truro Cathedral should be available in the Autumn. 

Don't click off yet because I want to tell you a bit more about my books:

Book One | Fiction | The Expensive Cravat and English Gentleman and the Imperfect Crime

The Expensive Cravat is a crime novel set 1980s rural England and was triggered by my involuntary exposure to the English Middle Class and their silly ways... You can read a free sample from the e-book here or buy the whole thing for half the price of two-shot cappuccino. 

Here's another extract from the book: 

There had been times when he’d been close to jumping into that grey canal, but something stopped him thankfully.  What would they have thought of him at Finchbury if they knew he could think like this?  Parental deprivation, cold showers and regular thrashings were supposed to have conditioned Tarquin to cope with anything, but Finchbury had made him fidgety and incapable of forming relationships with girls.  Most Old-Finchburians benefited massively from their suffering at school and being spanked publicly by an older boy prefect or private canings by the headmaster, had set them up for life, but Tarquin simply hadn’t responded to the process.  Yes, he’d put a brave face on it and his mother made all sorts of excuses for her son’s failings, but deep down, behind all the adjectives and awful pretentious nonsense, Tarquin was a typical young man with a slightly unnatural crush on Gary Lineker.

Book Two | Non-fiction | Did Hitler Eat Strawberry Cake?

If you're an agent or publisher of popular history you might like to take a look at Did Hitler Eat Strawberry Cake? the first of a series of books that takes an imaginative look at one of history’s most frightening tyrants.

I can't draw, but I did I draw this as Hitler images are expensive

 I can't draw, but I did I draw this as Hitler images are expensive 

Written for a popular audience, Did Hitler Eat Strawberry Cake? is peppered with interesting facts and nuggets of information that are communicated to its audience in a range of publishing styles.

While Did Hitler Eat Strawberry Cake? is emphatically History light, the research upon which it is grounded is extensive and is derived from: distinguished biography, academic journals and historical and media archives.

Did Hitler Eat Strawberry will be promoted by this blog and my in-house Social Media Marketing service the Writers Guardian that has over 5000 reader and writer followers.

Read the extended synopsis... 

Book Three | Textbook | Defining Alternative Media

Defining Alternative Media is the first book of its kind to explore what it means to be alternative and critically explores whether the way in which alternative journalists operate is able to circumvent mainstream media practices.

Using examples from the UK alternative Press, the book identifies two distinct types of alternative journalist; those who desire radical structural social change and overhaul of the mainstream media and those that seek to circumvent the mainstream and encourage a sense of community by widening participation in the media. The two alternative journalisms are similar in that they encourage readers to participate, however, they differ in their ideological motivation and political orientation. 

The author argues that defining alternative media as participatory is insufficiently critical of, and in practice, presents too weak a challenge to the dominant practices of the mainstream capitalist press to be considered alternative.

Try before you buy.   Here's a free sample for you 

In the spirit of Alternative Media I set-up the Student Guardian. The sites purpose is to encourage wider participation in journalism and at the same time as provide students with useful information to help them through university. In a nut-shell the Student Guardian gives new writers and journalists a chance to get their articles published without having to mould their writing into what's expected of them by vested interest lurking in the mass media.

NB.  I've recently had to upgrade the site to a more secure version of Joomla. The sites will be back to normal when I have the time, the articles are all there if you can find them... 

If you are interested in Partcipatory, citizen, or Alternative Journalism you can contribute to the Student Guardian here and read more articles from the Alternative Media News community too.

Book Four | Fun Facts | Quotilucious

Written with stocking fillers in mind, or as one of those little books you pick up at the checkout in book shops, Quotilucious is jam-packed with fun-facts and Quotations you won't find anywhere else on the web... 

Quotilucious would also work well as an App too, popping out randomised fun-facts and quotations. Already tested on the web Quotilucious attracted thousands of followers on Twitter, has had its own Blog and Facebook and webpage that I plan  to resurrect ahead of the book launch... 

Here's three to be getting on with: 

Fun Facts | Chicken, or Egg? The answer is Egg

Fun Facts | An Oxymoron is a upper-class twit who's Dad got him into University

Fun Facts | Salavador Deli painted beautiful representations of meats and 

                    sundry cheeses..

Quotilucious | Funny makes money...

New Book coming soon: 

Book Five| Sh*t views of Truro Cathedral

What at sh*t view?

If you're a publisher, or agent interested in publishing Sh*t views of Truro Cathedral please message me... 

This is the first of a series of posts promoting my forthcoming book: Sh*t views of Truro Cathedral. 

I might write some blurb up one day... 

More sh*t views