Writing:
As you may have guessed from the amount of utter random rambling on this website, I write quite a bit. I ramble too. I think it's the combination of writing a lot and talking as a job. The writing started for publicity reasons with a newspaper column for the local press which featured tricks for kids to do. This then matured into drinking bets and tricks for kids to do (although the editor changed this to adults). I wrote an A-Z of superstition for a newspaper, which was a sure-fire way of getting 26 articles published. They daren't miss one, as I said that that was bad luck. The power of bulls**t!

On the back of the newspaper articles, I wrote my first book called The Innuendo Book of Tricks and Jokes. Looking back it seems an odd title for a kids' book! At the time, I was performing as part of a double-act working the street (I'll interject here: 'working the street' in this sense means as a street performer doing comedy on the street. Not in any way anything to do with prostitution) and we were called Innuendo.

At that time, I began working with my performing partner on a spoof newspaper for students called The Cobweb. This also became a radio show. It got a great reaction from our target audience. We started with issue two as issue one was banned (see the publicity hook there?). To this day we have often thought of launching it again as a running spoof newspaper.

In 2007 I was asked to write for MagicSeen magazine, with a regular series of articles called The Think Tank. Each takes a light hearted stab at various trends within magic.

Writing for live shows and other performers is something I did accidentally. To date I've written and performed four family shows, co-written a pantomime, two stage shows and one-liners for other performers.

I've written two hard-backed volumes of magic for magicians, and over twenty short horror stories. Quite violent they are too. The horror stories, not the magic books.