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‘HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO START A WHOLE BIG BOOK WHEN I CAN’T EVEN START A VIDEO PROPERLY?’

HI, HELLO. HI THERE. HOWDY DO. OH LOOK, I’ve ruined it already. I don’t really know how to start a book. Look at me. How am I supposed to start a whole big book when I can’t even start a video properly, as I’m sure you are well aware? I’ve decided to call this book They Let Me Write a Book!, because that’s about how I am feeling right now, and I’m sure ‘they’ are feeling right now. Whoever they are. All out there united in wondering why on Earth this is all happening. Why have I been given the power over all of this blank paper? Why me? I ask that question every day.

When ‘they’ asked me to come up with a title, I imagined that I was an eight-year-old who had just been asked to write a book. Don’t ask me why I chose eight, and didn’t just go with nineteen like I am now. I think eight-year-olds have enough of a brain going to make decisions, but haven’t lived long enough to let annoying life stuff get in the way of their impulses. So here I am, eight-year-old me, deciding what to call my book.

My first eight-year-old reaction, as has been the reaction of everyone around me, was THEY let ME write a BOOK?! So I thought I should run with that. Just to make it very clear from the very beginning: I’m as surprised as you are that all of this is happening.

If you have picked this book up in a public toilet, or if it was being used to prop up a desk in your office, you are probably feeling pretty confused right now. Allow me to introduce myself. I’m Jamie, I’m nineteen years old. I make videos on the Internet, and enough people watched them that they let me write a book. I know. I can’t tell you what’s going on with the world either. What is life?

‘JUST TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR FROM THE VERY BEGINNING: I’M AS SURPRISED AS YOU ARE THAT ALL OF THIS IS HAPPENING.’