Hi guys, Dan here and welcome to another episode of Five Bookish Facts. Today we are doing an author you may have heard of, hopefully. And that is Dan Kabain, aka me. So this episode was requested by Time for Books and also Catalyst Reads. So thanks you guys, I actually hadn't even thought of this as an idea for an episode which makes it the best kind of self promotion I think. So yeah, in case you didn't know, alright books and I do music as well, that's one of the facts I think, I don't know, maybe I'm ruined that. But anyway, here is a little stack and let's go. So fact number one, so my birth name was actually Dan Ashley by grave, but I changed it when I was 16 to Dan John Kabain. So the John is after John Lennon and I literally changed my middle name because it cost the same amount of money. And I changed my name because basically it was my online username back in the early days of the internet, so on forums and MSN Messenger and all that stuff. It was also kind of my nickname amongst my friends and it was the name I used to write with as well. So it made sense to change it. Okay, so fact number two is I appeared on a game show called Pointless here in the UK and that's a national TV show. I've actually been on BBC Radio, BBC TV and BBC Online, which is pretty cool. And Pointless, I was a contestant with my ex-girlfriend Laura and it's actually one of the first videos that's still available on my channel. Look, here's a bit of footage. Spoiler alert, we won the show but we didn't win the grand prize. I was unseated by a question about literary awards which we all know peg the book prize addict would have absolutely nailed. Question is here it comes. We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many authors who have won the Gold Dagger Award as they could. I actually have seven books out there about a dozen more that I wrote when I was younger and had kind of vanity prints of them made so that I could have a copy but that aren't actually on sale. I guess I'll talk to you through each of the books. So we've got no rest for the wicked which my first one which is a novella. It's a supernatural thriller. Very exciting. We have eyes like lighthouses when the boats come home which is a poetry collection. I'm actually working on a follower at the moment but that's going to be 2019. Let me have formally which is I guess like a literary fiction novel. It's about a textile type called formally and they're the social network for the dead. So they're not zombies. Basically it's like a private journal that you sign up to and you can post to and then when you die your profile goes public. Then there is social paranoia how consumers and brands can stay safe in a connected world. This is a nonfiction book all about what the title suggests really. It's about how social networking affects as individuals and also what we can do to avoid unintentionally go viral and all that sort of thing. Then we have coming up to the house which is a horror novella and screenplay so it's basically the same story in two different formats and the idea is is that the screenplay itself is actually creative common so anyone can go and take that and turn it into a movie which I'm hoping one day somebody will do and this is about like it's like a haunted house story. Then we have subject verb object and anthology of new writing so this is anthology I edited with 18 indie authors in it and we basically all swap prompts all wrote little stories to go in there based on those prompts and this is the result. Then we have my latest book which is driven and this is the first book in the lightfold series and it's a sort of a quirky detective slash cozy mystery but it's set in our times and you get an interesting contrast between lightfolders the private detective and then Miley O'Hara who is assistant and nobody can pronounce those names as well I've discovered which is great because I kind of deliberately did that. Okay thank number four as well as writing books I also write music I actually have three albums out and they are nocturn which is released in 2010 when I was 21 sketches which came out 2015 I think and then discordia which I think was 2016 yeah 2016 and I'm currently working on a fourth one called echoes all of these are on Spotify and I've got music on like soundcloud and stuff as well I record them all in my house using the same microphone I use for my youtube videos actually and yeah I also always make them 72 minutes long because that's the maximum length you can fit on a CD and they all have little hidden tracks at the end as well. And fact number five is that I memorize stuff so I memorize all of my poems and then I perform those you know from memory so actually I like houses when the boats come home I know this entire book off by heart most of the others I've learned bits of them so I've memorized for example the introductory essay and my story and subject verb object I've got the intro from social paranoia chapter one of no rest for the wicked so I do that and I also I memorize I've got some other poems by people that I've memorized so America by Alan Ginsburg which is like four and a half minutes long and Jabbaoqi I know that one and I've been trying to memorize the fear litany recently as well and when I was in secondary school in maths they made us all memorize the times tables up to 20 times 20 and my friend Gary he went further he did up to 30 times 30 and while he was doing that I memorized pie to a bunch of decimal places and yeah for those of you who are curious it's 3.141592653589793238462643383795028841 and then some more numbers. So yeah there we have it those are five bookish facts about Dane Cabane because apparently now I talk about myself in third person please hit a like if you've enjoyed this video if any of my books have peaked your interest you know please buy a copy that's always appreciated and yeah hit subscribe if you haven't subscribed already and I will see you soon for another bookish video thanks a lot bye bye.