Authors: Kevin Cotter
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Jog On Fat Barry (28 page)
The only thing left to do was join the advertising business, which he did by driving production trucks and Make-Up & Hair vehicles to various locations throughout Greater London and the Home Counties. Cotter slowly worked his way up the ladder until he was actually producing adverts himself.
Secure at last, Cotter married, but not long afterwards, he divorced his wife, quit the ad business, and started to write.
Writing kept him sane, barely.
In 2007, he decided to go to school in the United States, and in December 2010, at the age of 50, he graduated from San Francisco State University cum laude with a B.A. in English Literature. He had intended to go on and complete an M.A., but terminal brain cancer diagnosed in 2011 put a stop to that.
He battles daily with various psychotropic drugs to fend off seizures and behavioural changes, but maintains that the best things in life are family, being an uncle, and Chelsea Football Club.