As I mentioned here, I was in Manhattan very briefly last week for the launch party of my friend Nancy Woodruff’s excellent new novel, My Wife’s Affair. I flew from St. Louis into La Guardia and hopped on to a bus to Grand Central Station. Less than twenty hours later, I was back on the bus, heading back out to …
Road Trip
I’m off to New York on Tuesday morning for a book-related jaunt. When I was living in London I was part of a writers’ group. We all got together once a month to read and critique each other’s work. I found the process really helpful – after you have been laboring over a book for ages you begin to suffer …
Twit.
So, yeah, I have a twitter account. Of course I do. I’m just not entirely sure what I should do with it. I had the bright idea of tweeting my entire novel, 140 characters at a time, until I realized that if I did one tweet a day I would finally be finished around mid-November, 2024.
Title Clincher
HUGE THANKS to everyone who responded via Twitter, Facebook, comments, email, and – what was that other thing? Oh yes, actually talking to me – about my list of possible titles for the new book. There wasn’t much consensus, interestingly, and the one that I thought would do really well only got a couple of votes. I suppose I should …
Title Contenders?
Well, after four or five months of frenetic rewriting, my fifth novel is nearly finished – for the second time. I’m very pleased with it, but I need your help. Before we submit the manuscript to publishers, I still need a decent title. Long-time readers may remember that my original working title was Paradise – which was the name of …
Book News
I’ve been meaning to write this post for some time now. One of the purposes of this blog was to keep everyone up to date with what’s going on with the new book and the publishing process. Regular readers will have noticed a conspicuous absence of anything to do with the novel of late. So what’s up? This should bring …
Blast from the Past
Ah, the irony. The above picture was sent to me this morning by a friend of ours who lives in our old neighborhood of Islington in London. This is the front table of Border’s bookstore, which was a regular haunt of ours when we lived there. The store, I understand from book trade sources (thanks, Ralph), is about to close. …
Last Minute Reminder…
… about the reading at Orr Street Studios, Columbia, Missouri tonight. Afterwards we shall be going to Cafe Berlin for wine and other good stuff. Should be a fun night. Do come if you can!
Orr Street Reading – November 10
A quick reminder that I will be reading from the new book, AMERICAN LOVE SONG, at Orr Street Studios on November 10, at 7.00. I’ve chosen two never-before-heard extracts to read. Should be a lot of fun – for me, anyway. I’d love to see you there.
Not Funny
OK, I know this is a “cartoon”, and that it is therefore supposed to be “funny”. But this isn’t funny. This is just the way it is. Ask my wife. Thanks to the New Yorker for again not suing me. (The day I get a cease-and-desist letter from them, I’ll know I’m getting somewhere.)