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Guest author - Liam Livings
Oct. 26th, 2015 12:26 pmLovely to have Liam back here, as part of his Best Friends Perfect 3 tour. He's been daft kind enough to answer my questions relating to his latest book.
Where were you at university?
I went to Goldsmith's College, part of the University of London. It's the teacher training / arts college for the University of London. I did a BA in media and communications – wrote essays about queer theory, why people enjoy watching soap operas, dissected ABBA and Steps song lyrics and finally wrote a dissertation about a gay man winning Big Brother (title: In terms of the media representation of homosexuality, what it the significance of an openly gay man winning Big Brother? - not the catchiest title). I sometimes electronically roam through my old essays as they've been transferred between laptops as time has passed, thinking how fabulously lucky it was to immerse myself in the world of media and study those things. As you can imagine, I loved it! Julian Clary, Damon Albarn from Blur are ex students. It's in New Cross, which when I went there was full of spit and sawdust pubs and you could buy a three bedroom house for £65,000 in nearby Lewisham (where I worked as a healthcare assistant at the hospital while at uni). I drove through it not long ago; it looks like Chiswick High Road now – coffee shops, boutiques, and you couldn't buy a parking space for that now. ( Read more... )
Best Friends Perfect Book Three
What happens when your perfect new best friend isn’t so perfect after all?
1999, Kieran, 18 is at uni searching London for Prince Charming with new best friend, Jo. Between his new uni friends, American students Julie and The Sarahs, his work at the hospital and his studies he’s keeping himself busy.
But all Kieran wants is to share this with Jo, but he’s disappeared with his boyfriend, Irish student Andrew. Why doesn’t Sean call Kieran back?
And then something happens to turn Kieran’s world upside down, when he really needs his friends around him.
How far can you really push a practical joke? How many frogs does a boy have to kiss, until he meets his Prince Charming? And what do you do when your friend can’t see what’s in front of his face?
If you'd like to win a copy of one of Liam's ebooks, please comment below and include your email address and a week after this post is live, he'll draw names out of an electronic hat. Good luck!
Where were you at university?
I went to Goldsmith's College, part of the University of London. It's the teacher training / arts college for the University of London. I did a BA in media and communications – wrote essays about queer theory, why people enjoy watching soap operas, dissected ABBA and Steps song lyrics and finally wrote a dissertation about a gay man winning Big Brother (title: In terms of the media representation of homosexuality, what it the significance of an openly gay man winning Big Brother? - not the catchiest title). I sometimes electronically roam through my old essays as they've been transferred between laptops as time has passed, thinking how fabulously lucky it was to immerse myself in the world of media and study those things. As you can imagine, I loved it! Julian Clary, Damon Albarn from Blur are ex students. It's in New Cross, which when I went there was full of spit and sawdust pubs and you could buy a three bedroom house for £65,000 in nearby Lewisham (where I worked as a healthcare assistant at the hospital while at uni). I drove through it not long ago; it looks like Chiswick High Road now – coffee shops, boutiques, and you couldn't buy a parking space for that now. ( Read more... )
Best Friends Perfect Book Three
What happens when your perfect new best friend isn’t so perfect after all?
1999, Kieran, 18 is at uni searching London for Prince Charming with new best friend, Jo. Between his new uni friends, American students Julie and The Sarahs, his work at the hospital and his studies he’s keeping himself busy.
But all Kieran wants is to share this with Jo, but he’s disappeared with his boyfriend, Irish student Andrew. Why doesn’t Sean call Kieran back?
And then something happens to turn Kieran’s world upside down, when he really needs his friends around him.
How far can you really push a practical joke? How many frogs does a boy have to kiss, until he meets his Prince Charming? And what do you do when your friend can’t see what’s in front of his face?
If you'd like to win a copy of one of Liam's ebooks, please comment below and include your email address and a week after this post is live, he'll draw names out of an electronic hat. Good luck!
