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The book, spotted in Borders in Brighton:
Sorry if you’re bored of of my going on about the book but I warn you I may still be hammering on about it for some time yet. When your first book comes out I guarantee you’ll also be this giddy/sad.
Posted on December 3rd, 2006 at 5:45 pm
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TV, internet, all good bookshops… you’re rapidly becoming ubiquitous, Justin.
Brighton’s answer to Jeremy Clarkson.
Brighton’s answer to Jeremy Clarkson.
Die.
What about a reader competition? Send in a pic of you with the book and win exciting festive prizes.
Bonus prize if you are pictured with the book and a *receipt* or proof of purchase.
I will donate a mystery prize to get things going…an over-the-telephone mystery mystic tarot ‘reading’ whereby the lucky winner can have their 2007 new year luck foretold using my mysterious celebrated inherited talent for charlatanism, passed on from mother to daughter for centuries.
Clarkson has better dress sense…
And he speaks more sense!
Good idea Rachel. I’ll donate a pack of 8 postcards as well …
Feel free to be so chuffed with the book Justin!
And thanks for including my post in the book, and obviously the free copy! Cheers! Oh, and my cousin has ordered a copy too.
Steve (Lovegrove)
Rachel and Bigblue - Thank you very much! I shall take you up on your kind offers. I’ve got some goodies planned as well - let me get my ducks in a row and I’ll make an announcement.
Steve, you’re more than welcome. Hope you like the book. And your cousin is a toff as well.
Nosemonkey: Naff off, you scruff. It’s called fashion and it’ll blow your mind when it eventually reaches your neck of the woods.
Ah, people from the provinces - you’re like little monkeys who’ve just discovered the amazing potential of the pointy stick.
Looking again, I seem to recall Marty McFly wearing something similar a couple of decades back. Then again, he was a time traveller, so perhaps he got the idea off you? (Can’t see Clarkson being satisfied with only being able to reach 88 miles per hour, though, mind. The plutonium power source is a probably a tad too eco-friendly for his liking and all.)
A friend of mine reports that she has seen a pile of The Book in a shop in Stoke Newington. It’s recommended as a stocking filler, apparently. God only knows what their feet must look like.
I know how you feel, as I’ve got a book coming out at the moment too. Well, a pamphlet. Well, a home-produced samizdat of short stories of dubious quality and variable age. But it is free to anyone who wants a copy, and will be available as a PDF under Creative Commons in the new year.
To recap, I know how you feel, except in a comparatively povo and lo-fi manner.
That said, I don’t advise you to go down the same route. From the looks of that cover and binding your printing and distribution costs will probably be a good deal higher than mine. And I dare say you’ll have luxuries like “editors” and “marketing” somewhere along the line.
Good luck with the sales, though. When all my friends’ and relatives’ presents have reached a safe harbour and I know I don’t have it from another source, I’ll look out for it. Probably be in the sales by then, too….
Check my left sidebar in 30 minutes.
Thanks very much, James.
Luvverly picture Mr McKeating … puts other seminal moments in recent publishing history - Hutton, Butler and so on - into their proper perspective I think.
I don’t blame you promoting the book at any opportunity Justin. For starters, it’s awesome. And secondly, I’m still ridiculously excited over it just by virtue of having a post included!
Cheers, Ken. I’ve just upped the stakes shamelessness-wise.
Matt, I think so. It’s only a matter of time before the British Museum ask for a copy. Probably.
To expand your ego even further (pretty soon we’ll have to build a new internet just to house the hairy northern expanse of your ever-growing sense of self-worth), the Bodleian and British Libraries will already have it. Largely because they get copies of every book published in this country. But still…
Give it a few weeks and use this for a real ego boost (or not, as the case may be): http://www.worldcatlibraries.org
I R got books of mine in libraries at Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, UCLA, Cornell, Cambridge and the London Borough of Havering. Harvard’s also got a copy of Worstall’s book from last year.
Isn’t it exciting?