Andy McGrillin

I know a lot of people say that, but I had no plans to do it.

And yeah, it came together from October 2023 into 2024, a huge chunk of it in the summer of 2024 when the Euros, European Football Championships, were on.

I used to spend a lot of time during work and after my day job just in the office in a Starbucks writing bits and pieces.

I'm not a writer.

Anyone who's read it can probably tell that.

And from there, it was finished kind of early...

2024 mid 2024 yeah and then got published so like I say I'm really lucky the publisher done a great job they made my words look and sound good they were very complimentary but like you say the graphics team that put stuff together the illustrators designers never met any of these people perhaps never will but they've all done a very good job putting that out there so yeah I appreciate it

I wish I had a better angle to show people because I need to get a top-down camera so I can show people books, but the layout is so beautiful.

I'm a photographer.

It's what I do in my normal career, and I have a lot of photo books, and I teach photography, and I'm a book guy.

Something about picking up a heavy book and sitting down in a chair and just focusing in on it and enjoying that for an hour with no distractions.

The feel of the paper.

Everything about this book is top shelf.

The graphics team, whoever did the layout, it is beautiful.

The pictures are great.

Just stunning.

And it's strong, so if you have a broken table or something and you want to prop it up, you can put the book underneath.

It's multi-purpose, kind of like the original iPad.

That's where I put it.

That's where it was.