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Colin T. Hewitt

fiction writer, sexual deviant, beer-garden enthusiast, cannabis puffer, taco lover and proud half of H&H DATA WORKS CUNTHEAD KA-BOOM! ALIEN LIFE PLANET HOME

DATA REDUCTION.

NAME: Colin Timothy Hewitt
NICKNAMES: Hewes, Cunto, Cunthead, Gomez, Custer, Col
AGE: 32 | 29.10.83

HEIGHT: 6'4"
MARITAL STATUS: 'til the end of the world
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual

OCCUPATION: Fiction writer and co-owner of H&H/GindHaus
HOMETOWN: Macclesfield, UK.
RESIDENCE: Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
PARENTS: Father. John Irvine (previously Hewitt)
Mother. Linda Naylor, deceased
SIBLINGS: Kinvarra Lauren Naylor (9)
Ainsley Elizabeth Irvine (26)

WRITINGS & FICTION.

Freelance collaborator with:
Q Magazine
Kerrang!
Rolling Stone UK
Pitchfork
SPIN
The Guardian
Raw
Dazed & Confused
Playboy
NYLON
The New York Village
New York Magazine

Literary Magazines:
Tin House
Fence
Volt
Granta
The London Magazine
Holdfast Magazine

Fiction:
The Blue Sprocket and Other Stories (short stories 2011)
Tales from the Electric Circus (short stories 2012)
This Is How You Make Me Lose It (Novella 2014 - published secretly as T.C. Richards)
Runners: A Novel (2015)
The Mercy Seat (short stories in progress)

CUNTHEAD MCHEWES.

Was born in Macclesfield and moved to Manchester with his parents at two.
He lived in the same building as his best mates up until his father left when he was about to turn seven. After that, his address changed every few months.
Left Manchester and his mother behind at sixteen. He never saw her alive again.
Began publishing short fiction at sixteen and hasn't stopped since. He's always submitting work that doesn't make it into whatever his publisher has him working on.
Speaks fluent Italian, Spanish and very basic Khmer after six months teaching in Cambodia.
As a result of his mother's constant abuse, Colin has always had problems with intimacy and a sexual addiction he's had to face and struggle with in his choice to be monogamous. He used to deal with it through work, boxing and late night spliffs with mates, but he's been attending more and more SLAA meetings since a short split with Lucy in February.
Has been legal guardian to his sister Kinvarra since late 2014.
Worked as guest lecturer and tutor for MFA creative writing students at the New School 2013-2016.
Loves Doctor Who with a childish excitement that began when he was a little boy. It's the one reminder of his father's he kept close to him at all times.
Worked as a music journalist for years before the H&H/GrindHaus career change. He's covered most major music festivals and there are many interviews under his belt that he is genuinely proud of.
His all time favourite album is Quadrophenia by The Who. He discovered the band in his dad's albums as a kid, thinking it was Doctor Who-related somehow.
His creative goal in life is to have a career like Neil Gaiman's and he has a massive literary boner for Jhumpa Lahiri.

THE BIG KA-BOOM.

Colin's childhood was a tough one. His dad up and fucked off when he was six years old and his mother just couldn't take it. Colin grew up on a steady mix of abuse that came both from his own mother and from the men she followed her father with; violent, abusive alcoholics who took their anger out on Colin until Colin was old enough to take his anger back out on them. He left home at sixteen after a particularly vicious beating and moved to London to start a new life. It took thirteen years and his mother dying for him to go back to a place he never really thought of as a home, and he couldn't get out there fast enough once he put her underground.

He took off to travel for a year the day after he finished his A levels and worked his way in kitchens around Europe. When he returned, he moved into a flat in North London with his two best mates and stayed there while working on a BA degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College. Upon graduating, he decided to get rid of his belongings and disappeared once again - this time to Southeast Asia. What was supposed to be a couple of months turned into a year long expedition, half of which he spent living in Cambodia and teaching English to children, teenagers and young adults. He would have happily stayed there had he not been granted with a full scholarship to the MFA programme of his choice. He moved back to England after much deliberation, and spent weekends and holidays in London while working on a Creative Writing degree from the University of East Anglia, in Norwich.

He was first published in a series of short stories by promising young English writers when he was sixteen and has managed a steady record since then. He has published two short story collections as C. Hewes and has columns at a number of music and literature magazines where he is credited as Colin Hewitt, Tim Hewitt and Colin Hewes. His style in fiction is what would come out if the literary offspring of Tom Robbins and Ray Bradbury was mentored by Irvine Welsh (mental and not everyone's cuppa, but inventive and often unexpectedly hilarious), while his journalistic ways are more easygoing and conversational than indecipherable and intense. He has dabbled a bit with radio and teaching, but he rarely takes it seriously. He is currently working on his first novel and hashing out the details of a screenplay with a friend.

Colin is a quiet bloke who keeps mostly to himself and will choose a dark booth in a bar over any club or New York Party. He loves his ales, has a high tolerance for Guinness and is a whiskey drinker. He has tested more narcotics than strictly necessary, but knows his limits and when not to mess with Mab. He likes to drink and party but you will very rarely see him stumbling home. Colin is a simple bloke of simple ambitions; growing up skint showed him the value of things as well as their price, and he has never been able to part with his past. He is still extremely careful with money even though his work ethic and talent have kept him employed wherever he goes. He values adventure over all things material and travels as often as he can - often taking odd jobs while on the road. He is straightforward, loyal to a fault and very careful of keeping his violent side in check. Even if it doesn't always go like he wants.

The move to New York happened on a whim and was meant to be a temporary thing. Like most things Colin has the audacity to plot out though, his time here hasn't gone quite that way. He has never been one to resist the good in life so he is cautiously but happily letting it wash over him. He misses bad weather, beans on toast and the proper use of roundabouts but is warming up rather nicely to his life of his in New York. In addition to his writing ambitions, Colin has joined an old friend in a business venture with a pub-meets-mezcaleria called Hux&Hewes.

LOVE & OTHER DAEMONS.