News Archive for ‘Around the World in 80 Handbags’

4th October 2009 - St Catherine’s Artisan Market Frome

My first ever outing of the book in public. Here I sold and signed copies for members of the public. The book was most popular with foreigners who were travelling in England and people who had previous done a lot of travelling, however there was one delightful lady who bought a signed copy for her friend who had a handbag fetish!

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29th September 2009

First editions piled up to be shipped out to the people who pre-ordered this unknown new author’s first book.

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10th September 2009

Single proof edition of the book is delivered. l experienced a moment of absolute joy when I first saw it in print. I highly recommend that everyone writes their own book! For me, it wasn’t just compilation of two years work, it was the realisation of a dream.

306 Pages of print.

Take a look inside, ten pages of glossy photographs. Look close and you can see five of the handbags: Mate from New Zealand, Will in New Zealand, Tekina in New Zealand, Greg from LA and Chris in Hollywood.

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August 2009 = Final draft signed off and sent to pre-press print with the CPI Group (Eastbourne) and the first editions will be delivered to people who have pre-ordered the book on 1st October 2009. The book is 306 pages long, has 93,000 words and 10 full colour pages of photographs of people and their handbags from all over the world.

July 2009 = Proof reading of book completed. Steve, Allen, Anna, Sue and Will’s Dad all pre-order the book to take advantage of receiving one of the first signed copies.

June 2009 = Completed 3rd draft. Now down to 95,000 words.

May 2009 = Completed 2nd Draft. Filtered down to 100,000 words.

April 2009 = Completed 1st Draft. 130,000 words.

February 2009 = Pre-orders start being taken for upcoming book.

December 2008 = School Talk: Ferndown School, Bournemouth.

November 2008 = Philosophical Travel Talk: St. Osmunds Church, Derby, UK.

April 2008 = I appeared on BBC Breakfast with Susanna Reid and Charlie Stayt. I dived into Susanna’s handbags to discover that she went to the Horniman museum yesterday and that she has kids. Charlie was surprised to hear that I didn’t only ask women and that half the peoples handbags that I looked in to were in fact owned by men!

April 2008 = I appeared on BBC World with George Alagiah. Apparently 20 million viewers watched me all over the globe (not broadcast in England though). In September 2009 I met a guy who recognised me because he’d watched it on his Honeymoon in Cuba!

April 2008 = Travel Talk: Headlining the TNT Magazine Travel Show, London.

July 2007 = Book writing starts. Various ideas tossed around, would it be a picture book? A book of quotes? Would I carry on photographing the contents of people’s handbags? My great friend, Dan Chilcott, helped me with the final decision to keep it simple and tell the authentic story of my 80 days of travelling in the form of a travel diary. “Just write the truth, people can make their own conclusions.” he told me. Thanks Dan.

1st January 2007 - 22nd March 2009 = Trip around the world in 80 days.

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