It Sticks Out Half a Mile
Lovely bit on the book in today’s Guardian G2, by Chris Beanland. Online here. And a new pier-realted film to check out in the comments.
Author: Jon Bounds
Jon was voted the ‘14th Most Influential Person in the West Midlands’ in 2008. Subsequently he has not been placed. He’s been a football referee, venetian blind maker, cellar man, and a losing Labour council candidate: “No, no chance. A complete no-hoper” said a spoilt ballot. Jon wrote and directed the first ever piece of drama performed on Twitter when he persuaded a cast including MPs and journalists to give over their timelines to perform Twitpanto. But all that is behind him.
Pirates of Clacton – a Pier Review Xmas Story
By Jon Bounds Danny woke me from a half-forced slumber; “It’s sodding Christmas.” The snow weighing down the canvas made the inside of the tent darker. A timid belt of light across the apex was all that revealed it was …
Pier Review on Radio 5 Live
Loads of piers in the news, following this FT article at the weekend. So Jon was interviewed on Radio 5 Live about our experience:
Pier Review on BBC WM
Jon chatted with Adrian Goldberg on BBC WM this morning, here’s what you missed (if you missed it):
Close to the edit
I said we’d have it done before the end of the weekend and we have. Starting at the crack of about half eleven we snuggled in our writing den until two separate 50,000 word plus accounts were hacked into one …
On writing a book
Writing a book is easy, and also hard. It turns out that the easy bits are also difficult when it comes down to it. The easiest bit is the idea, but it doesn’t stop there: you have to finish what …
Home again home again
After pushing the car to start it in Cardiff, and being too frightened to stop until we reached home even to buy water or food, we for some reason took A roads home up to Gloucester. In pure synchronicity the radio kicked into PJ Harvey’s The Last…
Goddam Europeans take me back to beautiful England
We had a discussion last night as to why we took an anti-clockwise route. I think it was because we didn’t want to hit Weston and then spend the first couple of hundred pages talking about Wales in what is really a pean to a bygone England. It doe…
Car trouble
Worried this has all been too easy? A fourteen-day challenge tossed off in a mere eleven day? After a dissapointing trip to Anglesey, to a Beaumaris pier that’s being worked on (new struts Davd who works on the ‘i can see it from here’ Bangor pier…