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“Thanks for 52 first rate columns in 2005.”
Paul Napier, former editor Hartlepool Mail, now editor of the Yorkshire Evening Post – Christmas 2005

Chronicles of a Desperate Dad is published as a weekly newspaper column. The average number of words in the column is 610, with a minimum of 600 and a maximum of 620. So far over 150 Desperate Dad columns have been published, running continuously from September 2003.

It is written in ‘real time’ and so reflects all the normal events of family life throughout the year – summer holidays, back to school, Christmas, birthdays and so on.

The column is also personalised to the paper and town in which it appears. While the trials and tribulations of being a Dad are the same whether you’re in Ayr, Torquay, Cardiff or Grimsby, the performance of the local football team certainly isn’t. So while Desperate Dad would currently be feeling fairly pleased with life in his column in the Cardiff paper, it wouldn’t be quite the same in the Grimsby Evening Telegraph.

Technical Details:

• Column is e-mailed to you by 10:00 the day before publication
• As a safety factor the column will always be e-mailed to more than one member of staff and to a general mailbox if required
• Provision can be made for Bank Holidays – if you want the column to run on a Tuesday and Monday is a Bank Holiday then the column will be sent by e-mail on the previous Friday

To discuss syndication of future columns from Chronicles of a Desperate Dad please telephone Mark Richards on 01723 500366
or e-mail mark@desperatedad.co.uk