After working in print journalism for 20 years hard, producing short, snappy pieces to order for editors often foaming at the mouth, I decided to take the more elegant course and write books.
I am currently working on the first autobiography of Richard O’Brien, the actor song writer who wrote The Rocky Horror Show.
Last year I wrote a personal memoir, Inside. In fact I am still writing it, about year spent in HMP Wormwood Scrubs, teaching Literacy, Journalism and Art.
In 2004, I wrote an unauthorised biography of actor Colin Farrell, published by Blake Publishing.
I enjoyed researching Farrell’s early life in Dublin, his home town, talking to his boyhood friends and relatives and visiting his old school. Since then I have taken part in three documentaries about Farrell, two American, one for Channel Four, and seem to have become an unofficial expert on his life – although I have never actually met him.
I prefer sitting in a warm kitchen, with the subject of the book just nearby, helping them to explore their lives and put it down on the page in a satisfying way.
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