How To Worry Friends and Inconvenience People started out as a list of funny ideas and suggestions on a website I was running a few years ago. It got longer and longer as my friends started contributing suggestions. My partner Tom built the current website earlier this year, and it caught the eye of the guys who run the nerdy newsletter
"Need To Know". Within weeks it was all over the web, and I was getting dozens of contributions - for the first time from complete strangers - sent to me every week. A couple of months later
Snowbooks approached me with the idea to make it into a book. At the time of writing, my first book
How To Worry Friends and Inconvenience People has been out for 8 months. Until recently it was in the top 100 Amazon humour anthologies. Rhodri Marsden from The Independent said I make him "simultaneously jubilant and deeply envious"... Gamesmaster's Dominik Diamond thinks I am "very fit actually, in that posh way." Time Out were more taciturn, with a brief but accurate "Sardonic mottos" (you can tell they love it though)