So...

While I'm being published here in the UK, my publishers are looking for someone to publish me in America. If anyone can help them (and by extension help me) you can drop me a line on the usual channels. Or talk to The Friday Project. (Just so you know they don't *need* help with this, it's more like widening the search).

For those that are interested in signed copies - we may be providing them as a service direct from The Friday Project. Otherwise I may be able to *cough* sort something out under the table if that is what people really want.

The book is 280 pages...but I'll save the big sell for closer to the release date.

This is the 'big news' that I mentioned earlier.

'Da book' has been printed and bound.

It actually, physically, exists.

The shift from something ephemeral into an actual object is a bit of a shock. I have a copy with me now and I am stunned to see my words printed on a page. Blogs are hugely important, but words on a screen don't have the same resonance as a physical artifact.

I must admit to a small desire that crossed my mind earlier. To go into a bookshop and, placing my book amongst the others, see what it looks like surrounded by authors that I respect.

Instead I think I'll wait the 18 days until it's released to see them in the shops proper.

It's a strange feeling this, not really excitement (as I think my job has raised my threashold for 'excitement'), neither is it really 'pride', as it hasn't seemed like work at all. Instead it's just a feeling of 'the warm and fuzzies' - probably soon to be nausea as I read the reviews...

I'd just like to take this moment to thank, not only my publisher, but also you dear reader. Without you folks making this blog so popular I'd never be in this excellent situation. For that I thank you all.


(Rumours that I introduced myself as 'the talent' at a recent PR meeting are absolutely true).

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Sent from a mobile phone, probably from the cab of an ambulance.
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