After I finished that first book I started creating my blog, and ‘Hippie Kushi Waking up to Life’, the brand, was born.
I wanted to write about my life because I knew it had been an interesting one. My difficult early years living with a psychotic violent father. My rent boy days living homeless in London. Better times in Brighton and Brixton before my wanderlust took hold and I started to have my travel adventures.
Then I was diagnosed with a serious illness and my grey, full stop years began, which lasted for at least ten years.
But what followed this dark period was something spectacular. Two things happened that changed my life for good. I went to India and returned a changed man and then I returned to an old friend: Whirl-y-Gig.
The blog started doing really well and that’s when I got the idea to write the first Hippie Kushi book. I thought, what if I expand on the blog posts and write a factual book, half autobiography, half inspirational guide.
I feel like the book practically wrote itself.
Imagine my excitement when a top international publisher wrote to me and said they loved it and wanted to publish it and it would come out all over the world!! I nearly fainted.
Sadly, then Covid came along and the publishers were furloughed, the publication has taken two and a bit years to complete but in a way I’m glad it did not come out when we were all in lockdown and not able to live the life I write about.
I am very pleased with this book and you can buy it here:
waterstones.com
www.amazon.co.uk
Its also available at other book stores and on Amazon worldwide.
Here are some extracts: