The things you do to earn a buck.

September 3rd, 2008

One of the problems about being an author is that you only get paid twice a year. So every six months when you get a royalty cheque you go ‘wo-hoo’ then spend up on hookers and cocaine and it’s all gone (unless you’re Dan Brown who can spend up on hookers and drugs for him and his friends all year). So, being only a ’semi-successful’ author I need to supplement my writing with other work. I do the odd writer’s festival and writer’s workshop and some keynote speaking and I also still do freelance work as an art director in advertising. But now and again I get requests to do very odd jobs. A while ago I got a job offer to be a bad Elvis impersonator for an advertising campaign. It was good money for a few hours work, so I said yes. To this day I’m not exactly sure what I was supposed to be advertising, but I think it was some sort of fertiliser (or possibly not). Anyway, I totally embarrassed myself and looked something like this…

4 Responses to “The things you do to earn a buck.”

  • On September 3rd, 2008 DA said:

    Ahem, did I hear the phrase ‘the full package’ in that voiceover? Makes one think of the Oarsome Foursome nack in Atlanta, 1996, at full alert in lycra, receiving their gold trinkets from ER2.

    Good to see the literary world is treating you so royally Brian.

  • On September 3rd, 2008 brianthacker said:

    Thanks David
    Yes there was a package, but I was wearing two pairs of undies so I didn’t look more like Matt Shirvington!!

  • On September 9th, 2008 Hackpacker said:

    Hee hee, is that your own suit? I can’t laugh too loud as an ad agency I was with needed someone to appear in stock photography (that later became a Flash animation). The role? Fat guy in suit with Hula hoop.

  • On September 9th, 2008 brianthacker said:

    It’s a hired suit. The glasses and shoes are mine. Sadly the hair isn’t mine.

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