Why?
Okay. So, why the book? Why a memoir? And why should you read a book about someone you've never heard of rather than someone more known for being on a reality show or something equally mundane and shite? What have I ever done worthy of note?
Well, the truth is that I am an average Joe - despite my name being Dan. I am simply someone whose three businesses imploded within a few weeks of each other losing my home and everything else in the process. That business implosion invited a number of death threats and a rather larger number of angry letters from Her Majesty's Internal Revenue Service. It also saw me lose the plot for a little. It could be argued that I have yet to find it.
Instead of repeating all that's in the synopsis and my bio I will state this:
Some people think that I can write rather well. Sure, others don't, but the promotional pieces (University Days, Chicken Factory & Look Kid, there aint no Santa!) have, since being uploaded to a number of different writing-related sites just over a month ago, been downloaded over ten thousand times. This is quite good an' that, innit.
No stranger to the P45 has been described as one of the funniest books 'someone' has ever read. It has been recommended by someone else that it come with a health warning and even Andy McNab himself has recommended you 'Buy this book!' That, too, is quite good an' that, innit.
We've all had jobs. I simply wished to write about mine because I've had more than my fair share of them (and misadventures in business too) and I had nothing better to do other than avoid the attentions of certain individuals and organisations, most of whom continue to be just barely less pleasant than being smacked in the face with a bag of anvils.
You're support is very much appreciated and always will be, and so if you can forward links and copies of the promotional pieces to anyone you can think of - and keep returning to this site to help me get my 'hits' up - then that would be amazing (an' that, innit), too.
All the best
Dan
