How I Turned My Writing Hobby into a Career

by Gideon Thomas

I’ve always been interested in, collected, and had a serious attitude to music. I’ve supported bands and artists since I was young, gone to gigs, compiled lists, and written small pieces about music in different contexts throughout my life for local papers, music magazines, what have you.

After some traveling in 2002, I became more interested and more serious in what I was doing, and I worked in a record store for a couple of years. Then, in 2004, I undertook an MA at She...