TonyGetsLost

TonyGetsLost

33 years old
Male
Location
Taunton
United Kingdom
Current Status
Been away so long, getting ready for my Big Launch!! Which, the more times I write it, looks increasingly like Big Lunch. Makes me hungrier every time...
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  • Are you a ...?
    Published author
    What genre do you primarily write in?
    Travel
    If you write in more than one area, what is your next most favoured genre?
    Comedy
    Are your reading habits ...?
    Involve robots and/or elves
    Who is your favourite author(s)?
    Tolkein, Danny Wallace, Tony Hawks, Katherine Kerr, Jean M. Auel
    And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)
    The Lord of the Rings, Yes Man, Round Ireland with a Fridge, The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, Daggerspell, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs (she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse).
    What are your working habits when you write?
    Procastinatory
    Are you the edit-every-sentence-ten-times type, or do you prefer to let rip?
    Ten times? Why so little?
    Your ultimate writing ambition?
    To do for my genre (comedy travel narrative) what Terry Pratchett did for Fantasy - to attract millions of otherwise mainstream readers and people who never normally read books, using my humour. Or some kind of mass hypnosis. Either way works for me.
    Your worst habit?
    Well, I generally don't wear underwear. And I'm tough on clothes - goes with being an adventureholic. So my worst habit (and I'm not really sure I should be saying this here) is that, just sometimes, my testicles hang out of the holes in my trousers.
    Your opinion on the books industry?
    It is a tough game, but everyone does their best
    Where do you write?
    Everywhere!
    What else do you want Word Clouders to know? eg: do you have 9 cats / like paragliding / eat nothing but tinned fish / work in the bath / live in Kettering?
    I LOVE LIFE! I'm an adventureholic. I love snowboarding, climbing (walls, trees and public monuments), parkour/free-running, martial arts and diving. I'm spiritual, cheerful, annoyingly positive, occasionally funny and the self-appointed King of Modesty.

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Who is Tony? He's...
...Taller than something of medium height...
...Smoother than a plasticine penguin...
...Dress size 14...
...Able to leap small buildings at a model railway exhibition...
...Fabulously wealthy (if happiness = money. Otherwise, buggered)...
...Accidentally Bleached (don't ask)...
...Fearless in the face of danger...
...Constantly injured (see above)...
...and the author of "That Bear Ate My Pants!"
For more information, or to complain about my shameless self promotion, please visit: www.TonyJamesSlater.com
But BE WARNED! Some of the writing is in red.

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  • Caducean Whisks
    by Caducean Whisks 10 months ago
    Happy birthday, Tony - hope you find yourself!
  • Guero Davila
    by Guero Davila 10 months ago
    Happy birthday. Hope your birthday brought you what you wished for. Or at least a new pair of pants.
  • Debi
    by Debi 10 months ago
    Hope you have a great day and a fab year ahead. Signs are all good!
  • Tony
    by Tony 10 months ago
    Have a good one, Tony. Tony.
  • Spangles
    by Spangles 10 months ago
    Happy birthday, Tony!
  • Barry Walsh
    by Barry Walsh 10 months ago
    Happy Birthday Tony!
  • Mighty Jock
    by Mighty Jock 1 year ago
    Hey mate,

    Yeah the site hasn't gone live yet and will only be a few pages as i'm working hard on the rest as we speak - should have something to look at in the next few weeks. Thanks for looking. How are you?? did you add me kn facebook? i couldn't see if it was you on the pic, so ignored it (i also didn't know your surname until i checked out your site.

    Big hugs

    Jock ;-)
  • Charlie
    by Charlie 1 year ago
    I'm glad you found it useful, Tony. I was just wondering if I'd put you off with the amount of stuff in there. I've been on blogger since 2004. My blog is in its third or fourth incarnation and currently offline as I'm still not happy with it. I started it as a diary and then got bored writing about my life as a housewife and mother (plus writing about the kind of stuff that does get me fired up tends to also get me into too much trouble - either virtual or real life).

    At the moment I'm changing the whole thing yet again and aiming to get a few posts together so I can do the whole regular posting schedule. Unlike you, though, I haven't found a niche for it and that's actually the thing bugging me the most.

    Anyway, I researched all this when I set up my own blog (and then kept up with the changes happening online) but life got in the way, my focus turned to writing fiction and blogging was yesterday's fun.

    It's only recently that I've been taking it more seriously again but it's now competing for time with a larger family and my fiction writing.

    If you think it'd be useful I'll think about posting it on the cloud as a blog. I might have to make it more general though - what do you think?

    Oh and if you haven't had enough, you can have part III in a few days, let me know.
  • Charlie
    by Charlie 1 year ago
    Hi Tony, hope you found Part II useful. Let me know if you're trying any of it what worked for you and what didn't.
  • Dizzy
    by Dizzy 1 year ago
    Hey man, where casn i find your travel book ? sound slike it might be interesting :)
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