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simon

Tell Me Your Guilty Pleasure

About Me

I joined the literary and talent agency PFD in the Autumn of 1999. I am 40 years old, married to actress-turned-teacher Helen Adie and we have one son Jack who is 13. I have a BA (Hons) in Drama and Theatre Studies from the University Of Kent At Canterbury where I graduated in 1988. I spent five years working in commercial theatre before I decided to become a Literary Agent. I joined Sheil Land Associates in 1993 year and five years later made the move here to PFD. I am Joint Head of Books and a Director of PFD. The PFD environment is wonderfully creative and broad in approach and vision. The opportunities for my clients are exceptional.My interests are very widespread and I am keen to build my list in a number of areas: film/theatre, popular music, comedy, ancient history, commercial fiction and literary fiction. I like quirky, unconventional and a challenge!

My Interests

yo-yo dieting, theatre, books, London, Italy, marathons/triathlons, cycling

I'd like to meet:

someone with an idea that will change the way people think.

Music:

from show tunes to New Romantic and from HipHop to the Wall Of Sound - if I can find a melody I am SO there.

Movies:

Carry On Camping and Hitchcock.

Books:

I have co-written three books which you can buy on Amazon ROCK AND POP ELEVENS - O'Mara Books 2004 (with the wonderful Tom Bromley and Michael Moran)LIVE 8 THE OFFICIAL BOOK - Random House 2005 (with Bob Geldof, Paul Gorman and Paul Vallely)ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES - John Murray Ltd 2006 (with the wonderful Tom Bromley and Michael Moran again!)

Heroes:

Bowie, Boy George, Frank Spencer and Jim Dale

My Blog

YOU ARE GUILTY AND YOU KNOW IT!

I would love everyone who reads this to visit my website www.1001guiltypleasures.com and confess their guiltiest darkest dirtiest pleasures. The book is out on November 2nd but we have been commissone...
Posted by simon on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:54:00 PST

I LOVE PARIS

If you haven't done so already please check out the sublimely wonderful blog www.petiteanglaise.com As the blogger says........... Paris has been my home for a decade. After living 'in sin' for ...
Posted by simon on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:13:00 PST

WHAT IS YOUR GUILTY PLEASURE????

As a side project I am co-author of the UK edition of The Encyclopaedia Of Guilty Pleasures with my good friends Tom Bromley and Michael Moran. It is published on November 2nd by John Murray Ltd and i...
Posted by simon on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:10:00 PST