Gary who?

This is just a quick blurb to explain who I am; if you’re looking for my CV, you’ll find it on the cunningly titled “Gary’s CV” page (linked above); if you’re looking for advice on media careers, then please click on the “advice” category to the right of this post for a whole bunch of (I hope) useful information and links. Alternatively, use the search box to look for the post, “so you want to be a writer?”

Anyway… my name’s Gary, I’m in my late thirties, and I live just outside Glasgow with my wife, my daughter and a black labrador. I’m a freelance journalist, columnist, author, scriptwriter and radio talking head, and I write features, news stories and tutorials about technology, the Internet and pop culture for lots of UK magazines (and a few non-UK ones too). I’ve also written several books for young musicians, one book on homeworking and one on laptops, and I’ve co-authored lots of computing and music books, some of which I can talk about and some of which I can’t. Before getting into journalism I played in various bands, some of which I like to talk about and some of which I don’t.

Although this blog occasionally touches on journalism, it’s a personal site rather than a work one. If you’re looking for intelligent, well written and interesting journalism you’ll find it in my magazine articles and books; if you prefer poorly punctuated knee-jerk nonsense with far too many mentions of Girls Aloud then, my friend, you’ve come to the right place.

This site’s header was designed by Ronnie Brown, who’s based in Glasgow. He’s very good. You should hire him. The photos were taken by David Marshall, who’s not based in Glasgow. But you should hire him too.