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About me

I'm the Channel Manager for Writing, under the Arts & Humanities Channel. I have worked as a teacher, advertising executive, publisher, freelance writer and tutor, and I am now working as an Advertising Manager for a professional association in the heart of London. Over the years I have contributed to a huge range of small press magazines, charity anthologies, fanzines, blogs, websites, commercial magazines and books.

I have written reviews, poems, short stories, translations, novels, essays, articles, a thesis, radio plays and songs. I've interviewed celebrities, edited and even published magazines.

I am a fluent French speaker and hold postgraduate degrees in French and Cinema Studies.

In my leisure time, I continue to write, and enjoy reading widely, generally science-fiction, fantasy and humour, in English and French. I am also an experienced amateur actor (if that isn't an oxymoron), and in the last couple of years have appeared as Oberon and had various roles in Come On, Jeeves, Great Expectations, Dick Whittington, Flare Path and Sisterly Feelings. In December 2011 I hope to be appearing again at the London Wetland Centre's Christmas Show.

I hope you enjoy my articles.

Briefly me

My passion is ...

Writing

I know too much about ...

French cinema, 18th Century Venice

My parents always told me ...

My mouth would get me into trouble

My childhood ambition ...

To write a Doctor Who novel

My favorite memory ...

Selling my first short story (to a magazine which promptly folded)

Why I write ...

It's cheaper than ballooning

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Manic Street Preachers

My first job ...

French Teacher..

My best moment ...

Quitting teaching

My inspiration ...

Philip K Dick

Featured article by Kenneth Andrews

Jobs & Careers > Career Path & Goals Possible reasons for leaving a current job: 5 of 55

The concept of a "job for life" belongs firmly in the past. Gone are the days when you could graduate from university, get an entry-level position within a company, and spend the next forty years working your way up the ranks. Now, we all have to be ambitious, career-minded machines, honing our CVs in the evening in constant preparation for that next plunge into the job market. A large number of people tend to move jobs every two to three years now, about the optimum for ensuring a healthy salary increase, without looking too scatty. However, even though leaving jobs on a semi-regular basi...
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