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So you wrote a book.

Yes. That's good.

You were punished for it.

That was a long writing process. I've got to tell you, wowsers, for people who don't know what it's like to write a book,

what would your advice be about what it's like to write a book?

Don't do it.

Don't run.

Get into therapy, that's what I would say.

Yeah, well, especially if you're going to write about your life, right?

Maybe any type of writing.

Wasn't the whole process like a therapy session for you?

Like one big, long, personal, self-indulgent, exhausting, boring therapy session.

I reckon, if I'm, like, being quite serious about it, it's probably 10 years of therapy to write a memoir. I appreciate the use

of the word reckon. Welcome to Australia. May, I can do the full Aussie for you. Why did you write it?

Where did it come from? So, during the two lockdowns, when things opened up, I was at a bookstore

in Belmain and I went up to the woman.

Suburb of Sydney.

Suburb of Sydney.

Walk up to the woman at the front, and I go, do you have any gay books?

And she's like, excuse me?

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