I know what youâre thinking; that doesnât make any sense. How can it be?
Allow me to explainâ¦
The year is 2002 and I get a phone call from a friend. He tells me that some guy heâs working with has just handed his notice in so I should go for his job. My friend and âsome guyâ are employed by The Wave and Swansea Sound, bonded local radio stations here in south Wales where I live.
At the time, I was working in Waterstones bookshop, so you could say that already had a career in literature. Kind of. But here was a chance to be a writer by profession. You see, what my friend and âsome guyâ did at these stations was write commercial radio scripts. Well, I listened to those stations and I would hear the ads that went out on air. I can do that, I thought. So I went for it.