Hello. You made it.

I’m Fraser, an exiled west country type now living in the South Downs. And I’m a writer of sorts. I think.

Like everyone else, I use the world to access mischief and try to capture it in words. This one time I was hit by a taxi after a monk gave me a blessing on the roadside in Kathmandu — you get the gist.

Over the years my scribbles have been published in print and online by the Guardian, When Saturday Comes, Bradt Travel Guides, and many (some) more.

My first book — Me & You Again — was released in 2016. It’s about the adventures I had looking into my dad’s life during my mid-20s, which feels like a long time ago. What started as a curious sift through some old documents eventually took me to a beachside town in the US and, very briefly, Russia. It’s raw, but it meant something. You can download the whole sorry thing on Amazon.

In 2020 I launched Better Wedding Speech, a service to help make wedding speeches better. I’m afraid I’m quite a simple man. If your wedding speech could do with a once over, or if you just want to create something that bit more personal, I can help.

I’m always up for talking about new writing projects, from editing business copy to grow SEO presence, or just adding some oomph to something. If you’re stuck, let’s chat. You can reach me at fraser dot balaam at gmail … you know the rest.

It’s all a bit like a hobby gone wrong.