Love or Suicide and the Life in-between...

...is finally published!!  It has been a while now since I have been on here but I promise to be on here more and more now my book is finally been self-published.  Grosvenor House Publishing Limited have done an amazing job with what must have been a difficult task - the layout varied throughout and I was very specific with what I wanted (borderline anal), but it has turned out brilliantly.  I am especially happy with the glossy front and back covers of my own designs.

So, what is it about - well:

It's a deeply personal and honest collection of thoughts, poetry and short stories written as a direct response to family fracture and loss attempting to make sense of both subject matters as experienced by myself and fuelled by alcohol and pain.

Basically, I was going through a very hard time in my life and through dangerous levels of drink, I decided to write a book about Love, and about Suicide (subjects which constantly plagued me through this period).  It became this 'thing' with its own life, its own mind and its own beating heart and thankfully, it became the vent for all my deepest, darkest thoughts.  It isn't a manual on how to commit Suicide or even an ideal view on Love and all its inner trappings and wondrous moments - just a collection of feelings and emotions from a certain section of my life.  It is something I am extremely proud of but, strangely, something I don't want to make any money from - so I have decided that any profit I were to make will be donated to The Samaritans.

It isn't an easy read.  It isn't perfect and it definitely hasn't been proof read to within an inch of its life.  Its there, in your face, spur of the moment feelings - a good 90% of it was written there and then and not touched afterwards, not scrutinised or changed and messed about with.  Its raw, honest, ripped from deep within and exposed - exactly what I believe poetry should be!

So please, fire up Amazon, go to the books section and type in 'Love or Suicide and the Life in between' and buy a copy.

Many thanks.