Indies Unlimited is proud to announce the addition of traditional-to-indie author John Barlow to our multi-megawatt powerhouse superblog.
John Barlowโs prize-winning fiction and non-fiction has been published by HarperCollins/William Morrow, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 4th Estate and various others in the UK, US, Australia, Russia, Italy, Germany, Spain and Poland.
John was born in West Yorkshire, England, in 1967. He worked as a musician before studying English Literature at Cambridge University and language acquisition at Hull University. After teaching English for several years, he moved to Spain to write full-time, and has been there ever since. He is married to Susana, with whom he has two sons. They currently live in the Galician city of A Coruรฑa.
Apart from writing fiction, he also works as a ghost writer and journalist. He has written for the Washington Post, Slate.com, Penthouse, Departures Magazine and The Big Issue, and he is currently a feature writer for the award-winning food magazine Spain Gourmetour.
Please welcome John to the Indies Unlimited family.
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Hi to everyone. Great to be here, even if I have put on a *few* pounds since that photo was taken…
I hope that I'll be able to say something useful or at least amusing every month. The whole indie thing is a bit of an experiment for me, so it'll probably be more a matter of what I did wrong than what I did right.
Best wishes, JohnB
Glad to have you here, John. Welcome!
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Delighted that you are here John – I am sure you'll come up with something amusing – you're a Brit and we are famed for our wit ๐
I guess that's what they say. But I've been doing a shallow grave scene all morning, and I don't feel too funny at the mo… ๐
What's British for "Hello?" Mind the gap? Something like that. Anyway, welcome aboard. ๐
"What’s British for “Hello?” Mind the gap?"
Mind the gap is very formal, a bit like Vous in French; you might try something like "do you want some overcooked veg with that?"
Stewed tomatoes, John!
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Hey John ๐ Very cool to meet you. Looking forward to reading some of your posts – with all that experience, I'm sure I can learn a ton from you ๐