poster girl

Bloomsbury’s ravishing posters for The Pindar Diamond are now up all over the underground in London, and also in mainline stations round the country. I haven’t seen it yet myself, but friends keep emailing me photos of it, so I know it’s really there at last (Paddington, Bath-Spa…. I won’t mention them all, but I’d [...]

Eating My Hat

The paperback of The Pindar Diamond is published today. My editor spotted it at WHSmiths at Heathrow, Terminal 5, late last night (Sunday) and sent me a photo – (see my website, or better still find it in your nearest bookshop…) and I also saw it on the shelves at The White Horse Bookshop in [...]

Morning After

4th June, 2010 Although the official publication of The Pindar Diamond is not until Monday, after last night I feel as though this book is well and truly launched. Interesting word that: a book is launched like a ship being cast out onto the seas for the first time. Not a bad metaphor. Your book [...]

panic attack

28th May, 2010 So much for the yoga breath. Had a very bad moment yesterday afternoon. Suppose the calm before the storm is actually the calm before the absolutely deafening silence? The fact is that you simply never know what is going to happen at publication – certainly not as far as reviews are concerned. [...]

yoga breath

Thursday 28th May, 2010 Exactly a week to go until the launch. This is probably the worst part of publishing a book – the part when nothing seems to be happening, the calm before the storm (or so you hope) of reviews, events, lectures, the book finally appearing in the shops. One of my events [...]

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