I've been off promoting myself on behalf of my second book. For those that are interested here is my, short, appearance on Sky News.

As I'm speaking I'm sitting in a dark room with two spotlights on me staring at some little red lights and trying not to drool or just sit there with my mouth wide open.

I really wish that I hadn't used the word 'sexy' in relation to trauma...

Also, can I just say that there is something about TV that makes my teeth look like they are arguing with one another, I'm sure they aren't that bad in real life.

I was also in Sunday's Observer.

I was interviewed sitting in a park in Whitechapel, and while the text of the interview is online, only one of the photographs is there. Having my photograph taken by a splendid team made me feel like a rock star.

"Let's try to be charitable," says Reynolds, when I meet him in Whitechapel, where we sit in a park past which he drives on almost every shift (the Royal London Hospital is just down the road). "There are two worlds, really," he says. "There's the world that a lot of people are part of: the world that you are part of. And then there's the world of people who are isolated, socially and financially. How many crack houses have you been in? How many functioning alcoholics do you know? No, the two worlds don't overlap very much, do they?"

Only one small mistake in the article (understandable considering the noise of the park) and that is that Emergency Care Practitioners are the highest trained road staff.
I think that's all the promotion I'm doing at the moment. At least I can't see anything else in my calendar at the moment.
Now I'm working my normal job for pretty much the rest of my week - which makes me happy as it's something that I understand.

Seeing as I'm working nights this weekend and blogging will be light I thought I'd leave you with something to read while I'm either chasing drunks down the street or snoring in my bed.

In the first of, hopefully many, formats to download, The Friday Project have put my book up on Issuu - and it really does look lovely, and is best in fullscreen mode. The license that 'More Blood, More Sweat And Another Cup Of Tea' is published under lets you embed the book in your own blog, read it from any site, or download it to read on your own machine. Feel free to forward it to anyone who might be interested.

I'd love to see it on as many blogs and sites as possible. The more eyes it gets in front of the better. You can download the .PDF from the Issuu website.

Next week I'll explain exactly why almost everything that I create is licensed under a Creative Commons License, and by then I can probably get back to writing about ambulances rather than pimping my book.

< Once the plain text version is ready we'll see about getting it into as many formats as possible.

So, as well as having book two released, book one has been given a fresh cover. The blue cover is my original, first book, and has nothing new in it - if you have the black and yellow cover book then you don't need to buy the blue cover.

The new book is a bit bigger and has the red cover, and of course a different name, but it's similar enough that people might make a mistake and pick up the wrong book.

Here they both are so you can compare them.

So - original book on the left, new book on the right. I just want people to know so that they don't get the wrong one by mistake.

So, my second book is out in the shops. Amazon have also been delivering their copies (and it's now back in stock in their store). Over the weekend I've been getting messages through my twitter account and the odd email.

I've even noticed one of the better MPs ordering a copy. Hopefully, once he's finished with it he'll pass it to Phil Hope, the minister for Social Care as Phil's predecessor Ivan Lewis didn't think that ambulances had anything to do with social care.

I'm actually yet to see a copy myself - there is one sitting at my local post office that I shall pop down and get once I've finished posting this.

What I would like to do is ask a favour.

I have a tiny ego, it sits somewhere just above my spleen and is a fragile and dirty little thing - it seldom gets any chance to be polished.

What I ask is that if you read/buy/see my book I'd be very interested in hearing your thoughts on it (even if you think it's bad). Some of the ways you can let me know about your thoughts on the book are this.

• Twitter - You can either Direct Message or '@Reynolds' me.

• Blogs - If you can stick a review up on your own blog I'd be extremely grateful - I have a Google alert for the book title, but if you'd like to leave a link to your post in one of my comments you can be sure that I don't miss it.

• Flickr - I'd love to see what shops my book gets to. I'd like to see where it ends up, especially people who are saving it to read while on holiday - if you tag your photos 'BST2' I'll be able to find them.

• Email - My normal email that hides behind the spam shield of 'How to contact me' on the sidebar on the right.

• Delicious - Again, if you use the tag 'BST2' I'll be able to find it.

• Amazon - If you would be so kind, I'd love you to leave a review on the Amazon page. I think it'll help me sell more books, which will make my publishers (and me) happy.

UPDATE: A quick warning - the first book has a new, blue, cover - the new one is a bit bigger and has a red cover, I'd hate it if someone bought the wrong one by mistake.

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The free, complete and fully open for remixes downloadable edition will be along soon. The reason for the short delay is that Harper are making sure that it really shines - from what I hear it sounds like it's going to be something lovely. As soon as I know something I'll pop it up here. Remember that the original can be found here at archive.org.

More on that when it appears.