Tom Bryant is a music journalist who has written for Kerrang!, Q, and MOJO magazines and the Guardian newspaper, during the course of which he has had an absinthe-fueled sleepover at Marilyn Manson's house, been attacked by the Red Hot Chili Peppers' bass player, and been accused of starting a riot with The Prodigy. Not the Life It Seems is his first book. He lives in England.