I have a book. It is on sale this Saturday. Hooray!
It’ll be available at Free Verse: The Poetry Book Fair this Saturday. So if you can’t wait any longer to get this book you’ve been hearing so much about (?!) then come along. They’ll be so many other great people. I’ll be hovering around the Gug Press stall, where you’ll be able to pick up so much quality poetry you’ll need to buy a new bookshelf!
Laissez Faire is a magazine that has surprisingly little to do with rampant free marketeering. Available online and as a free publication around London (at tube stations, cafes, bars and places of cultural relevance) Laissez Faire is an arts magazine with a fondness for high fashion and up-and-coming fine artists.
Here’s an issue:
Since joining Laissez Faire I’ve been lucky enough to interview some of the biggest names in British comedy, review gigs and albums, critique high fashion and exercise my journalistic muscles on everything from painting to musicals. Unsurprisingly, as well as turning my hand to different styles of writing, I’ve also got rather good at pitching articles.
After a few months of writing music reviews, I was given a regular column to review unsigned bands and promote my online radio station; Cofi Radio.
I had a bumper crop with the issue above. You can find my work on pages 10-11, 20-25, 34-35 and 38-41.
Real World Magazine is a magazine for graduates and students (who are hoping to be graduates). It covers what jobs exist for graduates, how to get them, how to know what job you want to do and just about anything that connects graduates and employment.
It typically looks like this:
Yup, that’s Stephen Fry on the cover. I interviewed him as part of the issue, which I’m rather proud of because he makes a point of almost never doing print interviews. Sometime it’s nice being the exception.
I was the Editor of Real World for about 2 years. In which time they went from a readership of a few thousand to printing four version of every issue and distributing it in three different languages (and getting a lot more than a few thousand readers). And if you don’t believe me, here I am by the Editor’s letter:
The rest of the issues (all edited and, in part, written by me up to the Digital Age special) are available online at www.realworldmagazine.com/read
This is the Footprint South American Handbook:
It’s displayed here as it would look when balanced jauntily on a spiral-bound notepad. There are three important things to know about this guidebook:
My research and writing also appears in Footprint’s more specific guidebook, the Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia Handbook:
Jon Madge 