Spike Jones is a struggling artist who gets the opportunity to apply for a job with a film technology company. He's totally unsuited and unqualified for the role but, somehow, makes it through to the second round of interviews in Los Angeles. Once in LA he is determined to enjoy himself – through a series of encounters with interesting folk he ends up on a night out with Eddie Izzad!
short story
it's about CHAV's!
poem
got a minute? - it's a one minute story!
very short story
i wrote the novel on the train over the space of a year, whilst commuting three days a week between Gloucestershire and London - working all hours for a US computer company about the book: sex & drugs & pie & curry sauce - is loosely based on my first year at university in 1979 but draws on experiences from my engineering degree and Ph.D and five years spent lecturing at Polytechnic. Most of the action centres around the college campus but in later chapters the lead character - Clark Gable - spends disastrous weekends away; in Warwickshire at a young farmers ball, in Wakefield visiting his new girlfriends parents and in South Wales with his dubious mate, Rhodri.
synopsis
chapter 1
the book is 17 chapters, approx. 85,000 words
sequel to 'sex & drugs & pie & curry sauce' About the book: part time - is very loosely based on my vast experience of part time work - from selling my 'seconds' sportswear in markets to being a 'kiss-o-gram'
it's about keeping running in the hamster wheel!