Gary Knapton-Forde Email & Phone Number

Salford, England, United Kingdom

Jilted Ink is about justice for the jilted masses. A pro-bono (free) detective agency operating under NDA confidentiality where required. Reactive campaign & research projects (investigation & reporting) with media and legal contacts.Jilted Ink is also the umbrella brand for a collection of inspirational word-craft-centric projects where ideas and the wide arc of authentic imagination promote personal growth, professional rebirth and fundamental shifts in perspective. Articulation assurance and delivery development are constants. The psychological function of writing is (a priori) internal communication. Lucid description empowers.Last Seen Living focuses on life coaching using non-monetary exchange Buddhist techniques and a circular Whole Life Design non-transactional clear-out-and-grow dynamic. Nostalgia Supplies: for personal deconstruction stationery, reputation engineering / functional memory palaces. You're the only one who can write your story. The Echelon Rink curves around re-alignment and chronic standards in atomic behaviours through a fresh deployment of techniques in nuance and personal agency.Liminal Lounge is a complete material detachment centre. Here, all things are empty. The Jilted Ink portfolio consistently deploys homegrown narrative vehicles and the partners' creative power as lifeblood. Hegelian dialectic (thesis, antithesis, synthesis) substitutes the modern penchant for ring-fenced positions. Genuine personal confidence and advancement spring from concession, failure, disappointment, achievement, tension, submission, dispassionate analysis and resilient commitment. When the yellow brick road is broken, take the stairs. "The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day." Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)Jilted Ink; Last Seen Living; Nostalgia Supplies; The Echelon Rink & Liminal Lounge are proprietary elements of Jilted Ink LLP - a legal entity I intend to incorporate at Companies House.

Salford

My first book was published on 3rd January 2017 after I secured a global distribution contract with Apple iBooks. Modern Love is available to buy in 51 countries. As I explored the world of literary agents and publishers I grew fervently engaged, obsessed, with my next book which combined investigative journalism with self-awareness and real-world compassion. Devotion. Community. Change. From Under A Cloud On Heartbreak Hill is a campaign and research project that was written between August 11th 2017 and 29th January 2018. It was bit-part published in a post-modern, digital drip-feed format onto an array of social media channels, befitting of the anti-establishment implications of the evidence it lays out. I was fortunate to enjoy the support of 54°North - a professional media service of that era devoted to values centred around compassion, courage and growth. Truly, I contend, this is digital love for the jilted masses. I aimed to release a free digital file containing the whole book including 55 photographs. Pending legal clearance for my own protection. As of early 2024 I am still precluded from doing so. But it will come to pass. My third book project is a close-to-home fiction novel about three people, seven year life-cycles, clean architecture, career ambitions in sports business and media, mortgages, good coffee, London living and rather fetching Italian men.As I format-rove as a new writer, I have eventually landed on satirical pulp-fiction and I am delighted to report that it is very good fun. I am reconfiguring and organising all my surviving personal literary work from the past thirty-five years. As a good friend and renowned author remarked to me: ‘It’s important to separate your writing from your writing-writing.’

Salford Quays

Tax and new project strategic innovation consulting for SME's in the UKWhole Life Design Consultant - bringing the fruits of better, healthier, happier living and positive cognition into the workplace and beyond

Mediacityuk, Salford Quays, Manchester

Business Development for one of the UK's newest and biggest development houses. Our solutions cross all platforms inc: database driven servers (MySQL, Oracle), programming (.Net, php, apps, mobile) and cloud-based enablers. Based in the heart of the UK's new media hub. Come and see us.

Rochdale, Manchester

Delivering digital solutions to enable my clients to make money. Backed by a talented in-house team of coders, designers, search technicians, copywriters and social media outreach managers, I write marketing strategy, inform on tactics, report performance and deliver elevator pitches at regional industry events.Having won our first transatlantic account for web & search to a suite of companies within a $3B Wall Street listed vehicle, I am now busy tilting the customer service downstream by setting up a network of natural ancillary partners (from UX to apps) to consolidate our position as an A grade provider.Autonomous and fully supported. And loving it!

121 social media tutorials. Networking. Local business issues.

My own digital lead generation business with clients from finance, retail and club membership. Lead broking and keyword buying, plus website and blog management.

Agency sales - lead generation.

West End agency sales. Above/Below the line.

I managed the in-mag media for the ten official club sponsors. Budweiser, Vodafone, Nike, Lycos, Wilkinson Sword, Britannia, Pepsi, Ladbrokes and two local media outlets. With an office on Baker Street and two season tickets for corporate niceties at Old Trafford, I explored every hotel in Manchester and worked with MUFC Marketing (Kate Stewart), Licensing (Stephen Faulkes), MU Interactive (Mark Hargreaves) and MU Merchandising (Ron Gourlay, now at West Brom). Good fun getting everyone to play together. Not my team though!

Canary Wharf London

Securing revenues for the brand new website for the national newspaper. IndependentDigital. Under the guise of fellow Spen Valley exile MD Richard Withey. I wrote the football section so William Hill could sponsor it. Those editorial guys! They can't write. I can write.

When Actua, that made games for the SCEE PlayStation platform, sold out to Infogramme and relocated to France, it left a bunch of highly talented gaming coders milling around in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Zoo Digital harnessed that resource. I sold gaming mechanics as data capture and dialogue tools to large corporations, including BBC Radio FiveLive and Motorola.We bought up the online rights ( seen as worthless back in the day) to various sport assets including David Beckham, Pablo Montoya and Leeds United. Partners such as PremiumTV enabled me to sell clever digital solutions to anyone seeking online stickiness.

I was an original member of the Creative Solutions team. Delivering below-the-line advertorial revenues to the Music & Sports division of IPC, with Loaded as the core and NME the main secondary title. Twenty-four floors up in central London, we had a ball. Loaded was selling shy of half a million copies per month and the internet hadn't really happened yet.Model casting, prop procurement, studio and support bookings and directing the shoot. Some copywriting when the need arose.Cradle to grave projects featured clients including Kronenbourg 1664, SCEE, Nokia, Carling, McCain, The Men's Motor Show, Visa Electron and BT Pagers.Superb fun. Some great stories. Not for this board though!

Selling classified and then recruitment ads on the IFA trade weekly pink Financial Advisor and later selling display ads into Pensions Management.Lead sourcing, Face2face, pitching and corporate hospitality.In-house and third party classic sales training.

A Levels, As Levels, O Levels, Economics

Activities and Societies: Debating society. Creative writing. House debates. House sports. Church choir. GCSE's AS Levels A Levels

Post Grad, Law

Activities and Societies: The Oxford Institute of Legal Practice - King Charles House Post Grad in Legal Theory & Practice

Llb, Law

Activities and Societies: Debating Football Gym A Law Degree with added off-piste modules. Politics, Abnormal Psychology. Type of thing..