Featured Interview With Gerald Freeman
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Gerald Freeman left England at the age of twenty to hitch around Europe in search of a future that inspired him. He spent ten years travelling around the world picking up work, if he was lucky along the way. He wrote constantly about his experiences and the weird and wonderful characters he met along the way, and he is now working on a project he calls Life, which is a set of memoirs about his journeys. Gerald currently resides in Portugal with his wife and dogs. He enjoys writing about life and sharing experiences he hopes people will identify with.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have written notes about things my whole life but I decided to actually write the books when I returned from Africa after spending two years living in Kenya and Uganda. After I had returned, I found people would constantly be asking me what Africa was like and I would continually provide them with answers that did not do the country justice. It was at this point, I realised that Kill Daddy had to be written.
It was the sense of responsibility, which drove me to publish my first book. I felt it was my duty to share what I had seen and experienced and make people more aware of the fact that people all over world are surviving on nothing and do not even have access to basic dental and medical treatments. With difficulty, I also realised that I would only be telling half the story, if I did not delve into why I went there in the first place. Childhood trauma can be a long and difficult process to overcome and I hope that I can inspire people to fight on because happiness can be found and also a way to live with the memories instead of letting them destroy you.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Richard Bach and Vera Stanley Alder made me the man I am today x
Tell us a little about your latest book?
TEASER from my next book: I Don’t Believe God Wrote The Bible. Coming out soon!
Two teenagers go hitching around Europe in search of a life they never even knew existed. Either that or live under the tyranny of Thatcher, a leader that hated the creative thinkers, artists and lazy hippies, who thought outside of her box.
Excerpt:
“I’ve heard it said that the golden days of hitching are over and that now it’s too dangerous to tramp around Europe, but I disagree whole-heartedly. People have always said that. There is an element of danger but what people don’t understand is that there is something higher involved. I’m not talking about a two week holiday in Corfu and God will be there to protect you, no, when you are travelling on a permanent basis and it becomes a way of life, you become connected to something, which is part of a bigger plan whether you like it or not. To not have acknowledged it would have been like refusing to learn, or not wanting to grow.”
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