Books
Beset: The Pursuit of Happiness in Times of Crisis
The father of an autistic child embarks on an incredible journey of personal development following a slide into emotional and financial crisis.
As problems mount and his son’s autism worsens, he realises he is his own worst enemy and begins to unearth the true meaning of his life.
Set during the Global Financial Crisis, this true story of a father overcoming his demons for the sake of his children will inspire anyone struggling through their own times of crisis.
Beset – A modern memoir about an enlightening journey of self-improvement.
“Ninety-nine percent of this story is true, one percent is outrageous liberty taking. Although I may only be ninety-nine percent telling the truth when I say that, I only really remember one percent of what happened.”
– Lee Bullen
Someone Like You: A Comedy about Heartbreak & Lookalikes
A comedy about two heartbroken friends who pursue lookalikes of their exes, but find true love when they eventually venture into the unknown.
Nick and Lucy forge an unlikely alliance after they discover their lust for doppelgangers of former partners and help each other meet eligible suitors on London’s dating scene.
Trouble looms when friends and siblings grow concerned at their obsession for chasing memories, and with problems mounting around their intensifying relationship, their journey soon takes a perilous turn.
Nick’s best friend Konrad is nursing an aching heart of his own, but befriends beautiful celebrity Corsica Coleman following a fateful encounter in a faulty lift that will forever change their lives.
In the process of straightening out their entangled love lives, the four friends manage to derail a tyrannical tycoon, halt plans to develop an area of London heathland, and propel their careers into orbit.
Always and Forever: The Rod Temperton Story
Always and Forever’ follows Rod Temperton’s meteoric rise from working on a cold English fish market to penning some of soul music’s biggest hits in sunny L.A.
The film script recounts Rod’s early years in Cleethorpes as a nerdy-looking organist with dreams of becoming a renowned composer.
Rod answers an advert in a music magazine and moves to Germany to join the soul band Heatwave as their keyboard player.
He then introduces the group to his first attempts at composing soul songs, including future global hits ‘Boogie Nights’ and ‘Always and Forever’.
Heatwave quickly become a star act and record producer Quincy Jones takes notice of the writer behind the hit songs.
For his first collaboration with Quincy, Rod writes ‘Rock with You’ and ‘Off the Wall’ for Michael Jackson’s breakthrough solo album – in a single night.
Rod then pens ‘Give Me the night’ and ‘Love X Love’ to help catapult George Benson’s soul career. He also writes ‘Stomp’, ‘Yah Mo B There’, and the US number one ‘Baby, Come to Me’, among many others.
Next up is Jackson’s next album ‘Thriller’, the best-selling album of all time with three Temperton songs in total including the iconic title track.
Anthology: A Collection of Short Stories & Poems
‘Anthology’ features a collection of short stories, poems, songs, and comedies by bestselling author Lee Bullen.
This compilation includes:
– The short stories ‘Trapped in a Lift with a Celebrity’ and ‘The Soapy Beast’.
– The comedies ‘Falling Stars’ and ‘New Ageing’.
– An illustrated summary of the author’s other books and film projects.
– A selection of poems and songs.
‘Anthology’ also includes graphic artwork by the author.
The Carnival Could be it’s better where you are Warmly intimate, the door just ajar Sneak a peek at the hustle outside Confusing and cold, you return to hide To the personal carnival alive in your mind Where darkness is light and sound is kind And buildings swirl, trees entwine Time a toy to play and rewind Beautiful, I’m sure it’s true Yet no one sees your private view So feel in me and feel this too We’re all waiting to share with you
Film & TV
Lee’s 10 Film & TV Ideas
Lee’s Short Film ‘The Serial Killer’s Last Breath
Lee’s Film Pitch for ‘Always & Forever’
Carrot on a Stick Money, we’re told, is prize for the true And looks like a big orange cock Moving fast and hard to pursue High on a pole, it hangs from atop ‘Commit to the chase and claim your prize In return give us all of your favours’ ‘The tangerine phallus,’ somebody cries ‘It’s the only thing left that can save us’ Though some will stop and query the race ‘I’m not sure I can longer be arsed Who moves the carrot through this maze? It all seems such an elaborate farce’ ‘And what did I leave way over yonder? So far behind I no longer remember’ ‘Are you free now?’ a wise man did ponder ‘Indeed,’ I replied. ‘I see the agenda’
Videos
Lee’s Viral Documentary on Rod Temperton
Lee’s Poems
Lee on ‘A Place in the Sun’
Lee’s Illustrations & Designs
Lee on the Kovacs Literary Perspective
Lee Releases His ‘Anthology’
Lee Performing With Loaded
Lee in the 1990s
Lee Reviews ‘The Words’
Intended for Me Nothing to offer Nothing valid to say It’s intended for me To be groundless this way Thought I could give Thought I’d bring change But it’s intended for me To shoot out of range Unregistered with most My existence a ghost It’s intended for me To have nought to boast At times so certain At times so sure That it was intended for me To unlock all my doors But now it’s much clearer Now I hear a new song That it’s intended for me To always choose wrong
Cartoons & Illustrations
Ain’t No Use for Money If you save up all your money you’re a miser And if you spend it you’re a fool If you can’t make money then you’re lazy And if you get it you’re dishonest, that’s the rule If you give it away then you’re a waster And all the world will try to make you small You get locked up if you steal it, when you die you gotta leave it So what’s the use of money after all? If you stuff it in a mattress you’re eccentric And if you flash it you’re plain crude If you win it playing cards you’re only lucky And if you lose it then you can’t buy food If you grow it in a venture then you’re crooked And all the world will suddenly call you lewd You get taxed and left a titbit, and then die in pain without it There ain’t no use for money, ain’t it true!
About Lee
Born in London in 1973, Lee Bullen spent three years studying art and design at the University for the Creative Arts in Surrey before working as a cartoonist for several newspapers.
He later became a freelance journalist for major UK and US publications, and today boasts over 2,000 credited articles in newspapers such as Daily Mail, The Mirror, The Sun, Metro, New York Post, and many others (muckrack.com/leebullen).
Alongside this, he has written numerous novels, biographies, sitcoms, and film scripts.
His creative works include ‘Beset’, ‘Someone Like You’, ‘Always and Forever: The Rod Temperton Story’, and ‘Anthology: A Collection of Short Stories & Poems’.
His personal interests include squirrel romancing, ferret fondling, and stringing the guitar. His more intelligible writings are available in paperback and eBook at Amazon.
“It’s 1st January 2022 and I’m urinating the remnants of the previous year into the inviting blackness of the Atlantic Ocean. The balmy evening has played host to a memorable New Year’s Eve involving an array of alcohol, a fireworks display and an open-air concert, but for me it has a more profound significance: a clichéd belief that the calendar change, combined with a physical cleansing of all things ‘2021’, will invoke a monumental change of fortune. Okay, maybe I’m reaching, but I needed to grasp at something. The previous year saw me divorced, made redundant, financially broke, and embarking on a trying course of treatment for my recently-diagnosed autistic son – and that was just one week in October. The rest of the year was equally as unrelenting...”