News from the frontline of my worldwide mullet mission
The Return of the Mullet Hunter continues to sell slowly but steadily, and I’m grateful to everyone who’s bought a copy. This is the second of five free days, as well, and quite a few copies are shifting through that too. It’s all been aided by a few bits of media attention that the book…
I’m delighted to announce that my second book, The Return of the Mullet Hunter, will be published on Monday 2 December 2013. That’s just about a fortnight away! The book will be available throughout the world, initially as an Kindle ebook, and for British readers it’ll be just £3.00. You’ll find it on my Amazon page…
You may recall me posting earlier this summer about doing a Night of Adventure in Edinburgh in September. This is the regular series of events organised by the charity Hope and Homes for Children at which adventurers, travellers and explorers share their tales and experiences in the nerve-wracking Pecha Kucha format. The evening was great…
You might recall that I spoke a couple of years ago at a “pecha kucha” evening in Edinburgh called Night of Adventure, which was in aid of the wonderful charity Hope and Homes for Children. You can see my talk from that night on the right. “Pecha kucha” is a daunting presentation format where you…
I feel that you, dear reader, are long overdue an update on the progress of my second mullet book. This will be the sequel to Up The Creek Without a Mullet and will bring the account of my mullet-hunting adventures more or less up to the present day, charting my trips to England, Canada, New…
Happy World Book Day, everyone. If, of course, you’re not too busy celebrating St David’s Day in Wales, National Pig Day in the USA or the rather enticing prospect of Iceland’s Beer Day. As part of World Book Day today, I was privileged to be invited to a local secondary school, Millburn Academy, to do…
It’s a little scary to think, but my last mullet-related trip was in 2008: a road trip along the west coast of the USA with Justin. You’ll read all about it, of course, in my second book, news of which I hope to have for you soon. One particular highlight of the trip, which I…
I’m not long back from my Inverness Book Festival appearance, which was really good fun, and wonderfully supported by the brilliant staff at Eden Court. I was lucky enough to have a great audience who asked lots of interesting questions, and I hope my slideshow presentation tour of the mullet adventures (both those featured in…
You may remember me speaking back in June at A Night of Adventure, a fundraising evening in Edinburgh for the great charity Hope and Homes for Children. It turned out to be a really fun evening, and very inspiring because I was rubbing shoulders with fellow speakers that included round the world cyclists, mountaineers, endurance…
If you survived to the end of Up The Creek Without a Mullet, you might recall mention (on p206) of the Adelaide-based amateur touch rugby team The Mullets, whose member Natalie wrote to me when my 2005 trip to hunt Australian mullets made a few headlines. She told me about some of the fun quirks…
Longtime readers will know that I am really not a fan of Facebook. I never really thought it did anything that other things (eg this blog, or email, or Flickr, or – gasp! – talking to people) didn’t do. However, I joined a few years ago to give it a try, and found it tolerable…
The modest flurry of media coverage of “Up The Creek Without a Mullet” in Australia continues. First up I was in the Brisbane Courier Mail on Tuesday of this week. Readers of UTCWAM may recall towards the end of the book me describing an interview with Rod Chester from the Courier Mail, and chatting about everything…
I had a busy day yesterday. I took the dreaded “red eye” 0647 train to Edinburgh for a day’s work, and then had a couple of interesting engagements in the evening. First, due to a chance encounter at a recent Highland Literary Salon gathering, I was invited to the equivalent literary get-together in Edinburgh, which…
The other day, Nicole and I booked tickets to go to the south of Spain for two weeks later this summer. Now, the concept of two weeks in Spain is loaded with all sorts of images of debauched, alcohol-soaked holidays in once-quiet historic resorts in Spain that have been turned into ugly centres of British…
One of the mullets I have been most apprehensive about visiting since discovering it is Mullet, in Haiti. Crippled by civil war, poverty and environmental damage, Haiti was always going to be a difficult place to get around, but it remains in my mind and I always think about the place when it is in…
The prospect of a book coming out that begins the story of the mullet mission – which is now, incidentally, on Sandstone Press and available for pre-order on Amazon – has got me thinking about the quest as a whole. Specifically, the total number of mullets. Six years ago, when there were only five or…
Just a few days before Sandstone Press go public about “Up the Creek Without a Mullet”, I can exclusively reveal the front cover. Here it is on the right. I hope you’ll agree it’s pretty cool. When I first saw it I definitely got a tingle of excitement. Somehow it all feels a lot more…
I’ve been a bit quiet on the book front in this ‘ere blog since revealing that I have a book forthcoming via Sandstone Press. Things, frankly, have been really busy lately. My wedding’s two months away, I have a hectic work schedule this term, and having a book coming out is probably not something I…
Among the books I am packing for my trip to Edinburgh this week is Shadow Behind the Sun by a Kosovan Albanian woman, Remzija Sherifi. It charts her and her family’s life as they flee violence in the war in Kosovo in the late 1990s and settle into a new life in Glasgow. I have…
I’ve been a little cryptic once or twice lately about all things mullet. Today, however, I can now reveal all: there is going to be a book! It will tell the story of the early days of the mission – the first three adventures in Albania, Ireland and Australia. And it’s rather sad to consider…