##WhereIWrote Part 3!
TEN YEARS LATER – after forgetting about my own writing and focusing on other people’s worlds for a while, I found myself in Cape Town pretending to be a pirate. In 2014, I sat down and smashed out a short story about a Man for Hire looking for a missing Vampire teacher. This was the first version that bears any resemblance to the final book. The first person to read it was with incredible @jparkerk3 who gave me enough positive feedback for me to keep tinkering with it. I had the idea of writing a bunch of short stories about this guy and maybe putting them all together in a book one day. My dear friend @stevenlochran who knows far more about publishing than I do, told me that a book of short stories is rarely an exciting pitch for a publisher and I should think about turning it into a novel.
Pirate life became overwhelmingly busy again but at the end of Season 4, when I had no more insane monologues to learn or fights to practice or push-ups to do, I took my friend’s advice.
#TheLastSmileInSunderCity
Set photos taken by producer extraordinaire Nina Jack Cape Town, Western Province, South Africa
##WhereIWrote Part 3!
TEN YEARS LATER – after forgetting about my own writing and focusing on other people’s worlds for a while, I found myself in Cape Town pretending to be a pirate. In 2014, I sat down and smashed out a short story about a Man for Hire looking for a missing Vampire teacher. This was the first version that bears any resemblance to the final book. The first person to read it was with incredible @jparkerk3 who gave me enough positive feedback for me to keep tinkering with it. I had the idea of writing a bunch of short stories about this guy and maybe putting them all together in a book one day. My dear friend @stevenlochran who knows far more about publishing than I do, told me that a book of short stories is rarely an exciting pitch for a publisher and I should think about turning it into a novel.
Pirate life became overwhelmingly busy again but at the end of Season 4, when I had no more insane monologues to learn or fights to practice or push-ups to do, I took my friend’s advice.
#TheLastSmileInSunderCity
Set photos taken by producer extraordinaire Nina Jack Cape Town, Western Province, South Africa
##WhereIWrote Part 3!
TEN YEARS LATER – after forgetting about my own writing and focusing on other people’s worlds for a while, I found myself in Cape Town pretending to be a pirate. In 2014, I sat down and smashed out a short story about a Man for Hire looking for a missing Vampire teacher. This was the first version that bears any resemblance to the final book. The first person to read it was with incredible @jparkerk3 who gave me enough positive feedback for me to keep tinkering with it. I had the idea of writing a bunch of short stories about this guy and maybe putting them all together in a book one day. My dear friend @stevenlochran who knows far more about publishing than I do, told me that a book of short stories is rarely an exciting pitch for a publisher and I should think about turning it into a novel.
Pirate life became overwhelmingly busy again but at the end of Season 4, when I had no more insane monologues to learn or fights to practice or push-ups to do, I took my friend’s advice.
#TheLastSmileInSunderCity
Set photos taken by producer extraordinaire Nina Jack Cape Town, Western Province, South Africa
##WhereIWrote Part 3!
TEN YEARS LATER – after forgetting about my own writing and focusing on other people’s worlds for a while, I found myself in Cape Town pretending to be a pirate. In 2014, I sat down and smashed out a short story about a Man for Hire looking for a missing Vampire teacher. This was the first version that bears any resemblance to the final book. The first person to read it was with incredible @jparkerk3 who gave me enough positive feedback for me to keep tinkering with it. I had the idea of writing a bunch of short stories about this guy and maybe putting them all together in a book one day. My dear friend @stevenlochran who knows far more about publishing than I do, told me that a book of short stories is rarely an exciting pitch for a publisher and I should think about turning it into a novel.
Pirate life became overwhelmingly busy again but at the end of Season 4, when I had no more insane monologues to learn or fights to practice or push-ups to do, I took my friend’s advice.
#TheLastSmileInSunderCity
Set photos taken by producer extraordinaire Nina Jack Cape Town, Western Province, South Africa
Two weeks of quarantine starts now 😷
“To all professionals in the film, television, entertainment and arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of you in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession.” 🇦🇺 It’s no surprise that in this country with these leaders, artists would get screwed over once again. So many hard workers in all fields of this industry whose careers are made up of a million jobs, one after the other 🤞, always dealing with uncertainty, but are being told they aren’t going to be supported in this even more difficult time.
Love to everyone I’ve worked with, here and around the world, looking ahead at uncertain times. We will get though this, I’m sure (we’ve had plenty of practice) and maybe find some better leaders along the way 😘 (Wish I had more Aussie set pics on hand)
Every sunset, we sit on the back porch and watch the kangaroos, echidnas, wombats, eagles and occasional mythical beast move through the hills. The binoculars weren’t quite cutting it so the folks got me the perfect Christmas gift.
Works better than the ones we had on set
#blacksails
📸 @marseyb The Vanguard
If you’re in the UK, you better be watching #TheEnd on Sky Atlantic
But be ready to 😂 and 😭
Thanks to everyone who made Fetch happen!
THE LAST SMILE IN SUNDER CITY is out in the US, UK, Australia and a bunch of other places! Thanks for all the support and enthusiasm. More to come!
What a night! What beautiful friends. What generous fans! What a host in Schmitz. What a guest in Minch! What a photographer in @marseyb
Many more photos to come!
#thelastsmileinsundercity The Vanguard
#WhereIWrote Part 2
WAAPA, Perth, Australia, 2004-2006
Following in the footsteps of legends like @thehughjackman and Frances O’Conner (who I’ll soon be appearing with in ‘The End’) I was lucky enough to get my over-eager, baby-faced self into the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
I was busy most of the time trying to work out how to be a half- decent actor but during the Easter holidays in 2005 I stayed in Perth and spent the whole break typing away at an unplanned and messy version of a fantasy story. There was a walled city hidden inside a land of magical creatures and a few plot pieces that are still in the book today. I wrote about 20,000 words and drew a few character portraits before putting it aside to focus on the skills that would define the next decade of my life – bringing scripts to life and drinking like a pirate. Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
#WhereIWrote Part 2
WAAPA, Perth, Australia, 2004-2006
Following in the footsteps of legends like @thehughjackman and Frances O’Conner (who I’ll soon be appearing with in ‘The End’) I was lucky enough to get my over-eager, baby-faced self into the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
I was busy most of the time trying to work out how to be a half- decent actor but during the Easter holidays in 2005 I stayed in Perth and spent the whole break typing away at an unplanned and messy version of a fantasy story. There was a walled city hidden inside a land of magical creatures and a few plot pieces that are still in the book today. I wrote about 20,000 words and drew a few character portraits before putting it aside to focus on the skills that would define the next decade of my life – bringing scripts to life and drinking like a pirate. Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
#WhereIWrote Part 2
WAAPA, Perth, Australia, 2004-2006
Following in the footsteps of legends like @thehughjackman and Frances O’Conner (who I’ll soon be appearing with in ‘The End’) I was lucky enough to get my over-eager, baby-faced self into the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
I was busy most of the time trying to work out how to be a half- decent actor but during the Easter holidays in 2005 I stayed in Perth and spent the whole break typing away at an unplanned and messy version of a fantasy story. There was a walled city hidden inside a land of magical creatures and a few plot pieces that are still in the book today. I wrote about 20,000 words and drew a few character portraits before putting it aside to focus on the skills that would define the next decade of my life – bringing scripts to life and drinking like a pirate. Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
#WhereIWrote Part 2
WAAPA, Perth, Australia, 2004-2006
Following in the footsteps of legends like @thehughjackman and Frances O’Conner (who I’ll soon be appearing with in ‘The End’) I was lucky enough to get my over-eager, baby-faced self into the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
I was busy most of the time trying to work out how to be a half- decent actor but during the Easter holidays in 2005 I stayed in Perth and spent the whole break typing away at an unplanned and messy version of a fantasy story. There was a walled city hidden inside a land of magical creatures and a few plot pieces that are still in the book today. I wrote about 20,000 words and drew a few character portraits before putting it aside to focus on the skills that would define the next decade of my life – bringing scripts to life and drinking like a pirate. Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
DEAD MAN IN A DITCH!
Book 2 in the Fetch Phillips Archives will be out in October and here is the fiery new cover.
Another incredible image from @orbitbooks_uk and @emilycourdelle_design
Here’s another sample of me reading from #TheLastSmileInSunderCity
On the shoulders of giants 📸 @marseyb The Vanguard
On the shoulders of giants 📸 @marseyb The Vanguard
On the shoulders of giants 📸 @marseyb The Vanguard
Out in the UK today.
Already across Australia.
So many people have made this thing real.
Thanks everyone for your support. More events, more books, more adventures coming soon x
