I’m just back from a wonderful and refreshing vacation in Maine, which I will write about shortly, but I wanted to share a little bit of exciting news before then. The UK edition of A GOOD AMERICAN now has a publication date. It is scheduled to be published by Fig Tree Books, an imprint of Penguin UK, on August 2, …
What Matters
Yesterday I returned to Missouri after a wonderful week with my children in San Francisco, where we stayed with my sister and her lovely family. Living in mid-Missouri, going to San Francisco is, understandably, always a bit of an event. Weeks ahead of time, we raid the library for travel guides and plan what to do. This trip we went …
Writing for My Life
Look, I know. This is supposed to be a light-hearted blog. I’m supposed to serve up wry, self-deprecating posts about me and my writing. I’m meant to be developing, God help me, a brand, in the hope that you’ll all go out and read my novel when it comes out next year. But light-hearted is a bit tricky right now. Earlier …
Road Trip!
This afternoon I shall be climbing into a car with my good friend Chris Stevens and we’ll be setting off south. Destination: New Orleans. We’ll be in a Mini Cooper, which doesn’t seem very Jack Kerouac to me, but never mind. It’ll probably be more comfortable than a battered old van, I suppose, and we are old men now. I …
New York Stories
I love New York. I like to think I know my way around the town, just a little bit – enough, at any rate, not to want to be seen gawping like a tourist and snapping photos every thirty seconds. Hence this terrible photo of the Empire State Building, surreptitiously snapped with my iPhone two evenings ago, as I pretended …
Oops.
Yeah, so this is still sitting on my desk. Deadline, schmeadline.
Where Was I?
Goodness, turn around for a half a second, and a week or two flies by. Apologies for the lack of recent posts; things have been busy here. The fact that I’m in the office on a sunny Saturday should tell you something. My parents will be arriving in Missouri on Monday for an extended stay, which I am really looking …
News Round-Up
Some good news, in brief – we recently sold the Italian rights to A GOOD AMERICAN to Italian publishers Sperling. It’s always fun to sell foreign rights, especially in languages that I don’t speak. (The French editions of my earlier books always bothered me a bit, because the translator took some pretty extraordinary liberties with the text, to the point …
Foreign Rights
Earlier this week I tweeted and posted on Facebook that we had received an offer for UK and Commonwealth rights to A GOOD AMERICAN. This is obviously wonderful news for me personally, since I am English, and it would have been a little strange to have written a book (even though it is an “American” book) that wasn’t published in …
Covers and Blurbs
Very interesting piece up at The Awl about the trials and tribulations of novelists when it comes to the choice and design of their book covers, and the sometimes painful process of asking other writers for blurbs. As I mentioned in an earlier post, we are deep in that process right now, and so far, fingers crossed, touching wood, etc., …