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Joel Golby

"Welcome to my website" — Joel Golby, 2025

Screenwriter

My current focus is TV work, because I really enjoy going to meetings at Caravan in Fitzrovia. I've worked on Extraordinary, Big Boys, Smothered, Stepping Up, and various other projects that are still in development. If you want to see examples of my scripts, I have sold two projects so far – e-mail Isaac Storm at United and ask for Tethered or Sugarbabies – as well as having a couple of unclaimed one-pagers. There will be more of them. I am up for generals and you can probably figure out who to e-mail to book me for one. If the meeting is in the morning I'll be getting chorizo and potato hash, and if it's around lunch it'll probably be a chicken grain bowl. Big bottle of sparkling water either way. Maybe a flat white.

Journalist

My writing has appeared extensively in The Guardian, VICE, as well as GQ, Vittles, Mundial, Style Magazine, Airmail, The Observer, UnHerd, WePresent… you get it. Right now I am mostly stepping back from this sort of work – I will never again be up for ‘a quick 600 words!’, for example, and please do not insult me by offering £200 to do anything – but I am taking on select interesting feature and essay commissions. If you want to be the one publication a month that gets to host my sentences, then we should talk: joel.golby@googlemail.com

Podcaster

I have an intermittent podcast about books called Joel Golby's Book Club, which is very good even though it has the most erratic publishing schedule on earth. I actually love podcasting and want to do more of it, thanks. If you want to reach out because you have an author I can interview or you want me to host something cool: joel.golby@googlemail.com

genuinely one of the better photos taken of me in 2025, if you can believe it

this is what it looks like when I'm on holiday and I have loads of salt in my hair. Not a thought in that brain at all

Author

My second book, Four Stars, came out in 2024. It’s an autofictional memoir told through the medium of reviews, and it is incredible. You can buy that as well as my first book, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant – a book of essays – on any website that sells books (here's my favourite independent bookshop to buy from; here, because let's be realistic, is the Amazon link). I am currently preparing to pitch Book #3, which is a novel. If you want to register your interest in receiving that pitch then please speak to Zoe Ross at United.

Mercenary editor

I have helped a number of bestseller chart-topping authors tweak and refine the final drafts of their books. Crucially I am very discreet about who I have helped. In short: I can make your book better, and funnier. If you want me to do that for your author then you can buy a week of my time here: joel.golby@googlemail.com

Copywriter

I have seen the attempts your junior copywriters have made to ape my style and I think that it’s very sweet that they tried. If you want to just buy the real thing then e-mail me directly: joel.golby@googlemail.com

Cool idea enjoyer

I love and am open to cool ideas. If you think you have one that I would be a good fit for then let’s talk about it. If you cannot figure out what my e-mail address is by this point in the page then I don't think we should be working together anyway.