Andy Rivers - The Geordie Author

Hello and welcome to the e-home of Andy Rivers...aspiring novelist and opinionated columnist.

Within these pages you'll see extracts from my work thus far, links to my favourite sites and also my blog (Fasthands - catchy eh?) as well as regular updates and news on my writing exploits as they happen.

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My first book, an auto biographical tome entitled 'I'm Rivelino - A Life Of Two Halves' will be released on August 1st by Byker Books!

When you consider them in a football sense you think of 'little Rotherham playing Newcastle? Oh the romance of the cup.’ Well all I could see was fifteen stone, pie eating nutters covered in tattoos and no matter how much aftershave they'd slapped on there'd be no f**king romance going on there I can tell you...!’

Thanks to a family member taking him to his first match in the early seventies whilst he was at a young and impressionable age Andy Rivers discovered Newcastle United. Given the stress and despair this has caused him over the last thirty years it's fair to assume that this action would be considered child abuse today. His story, peppered with terrace wit and rough charm, will be identified with by supporters everywhere.

* I'll be participating in two signing sessions for 'Rivelino' on August 1st at Borders Books on the Silverlink Shopping Park in Wallsend at around 12:30 and Borders in Team Valley at around 15:00 - get yourself along and when I'm on Jonathan Ross in a years time you can tell everyone you know me! *

Also, you can buy a copy on Amazon....right here!     

About Me

I'm an exiled Geordie currently working on my third novel while the first two, ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ and 'Special', bounce around the desks of publishers and agents looking for a good home. Living in Oxfordshire however, hasn’t managed to shield me from the sheer misery of following Newcastle United as I still trail around the country being disappointed by them and write a regular column on their (mis)fortunes in the North East based football publication Players Inc. 

I've also had short stories published in the likes of 'Radgepacket - Tales from the Inner Cities', True Faith and Twisted Tongue. In fact I think that, given time, I could become a cult...there are others that think I'm not far off being one now.

So have a look around my site, let me know what you think and...if you're a publisher/agent or just need some freelancing work doing then feel free to give me a call - I'm very reasonable!