This is one of the nicest emails I have ever received – and it cheered my day no end… Other people wishing to mail me with similar are very welcome. Hiya Dom, You may not remember – we met when I was compering a gig at a school in Kent and had a long discussion…
Twitter is ultimately a popularity contest – an event played out openly for all to see whether particpants like it or not. How many followers? This is the first question or the first thing that people look at. It denotes status. And the ratio is absolutely central and key - Following : Followed We have all been culled from…
If circumstances inform and inspire my stand-up comedy, then it follows that with change, that my routines might become obsolete. I used to have a very successful routine on fax machines which would mean nothing now and certainly garner few laughs. Similarly, I used to have a routine that I called the ‘packed tube look’. …
Browsers are very welcome to this site – to mooch around and hopefully get something that they are after. The site has become extraordinarily busy in the last month – so much so, that my engineer type people are telling me that we need a larger server – which I suppose is flattering – until I…
Twitter is commonly used these days as a barometer of fame and/or success. I have long known that @tomholland1996 would outgun @domholland – and it has duly happened today which many people have gleefully been pointing out to me – so a good job I can take it and see the upside as well. And it’s a…
Tomorrow I am going to be on the Iain Dale Show on LBC 97.3 – a little after 12.30am discussing my book – how tom holland eclipsed his dad – which has now been joined on Amazon by my previous novels, Only in America and The Ripple Effect – and the latest novel, A Man’s Life…
Today’s news – tomorrow’s fish n chip wrapping is how the saying goes… so for those of you who missed the piece in yesterday’s Independent, here it is… * It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors. Jim McCartney was a professional trumpeter and had a son…
A long time coming and a little later than ideal but I am very pleased to announce that yesterday I managed to upload my ebook to Amazon. The title of the book was always going to be Eclipsed – until someone on twitter pointed out that my book would get lost next to the Twilight phenomenon….
Download the original version of Hobbs’ Journey by Dominic Holland HERE to read on the go… First published by Dominic Holland in 2003 Hobbs ambled along London’s Park Lane. It was a warm June evening and he was proudly wearing his dinner suit which had served him so well over the years. He couldn’t recall…
There is much chatter about the The Impossible and I am sure more to come this weekend. I have no issues with criticisms of the film per se. It is a subjective thing. But I would like to contribute to the debate about the ‘whitewashing’ of the film across the broadsheets and internet. Most of this…