The Well-Tempered Clavier

In the Clavier book, there will be no picture of me - and no biography.
This will, says Tom the publisher, give me an air of mystery. Well it’s possible. But I think that what he really means is that I’m not very photogenic. Too true.
My kids on the otherhand … they are scrumptious. (Though I […]

Just how many times to I have to tell Tom the publisher that the Clavier book is not my story?He’s a like a dog with a bone on this one, and is terrified that some Eton piano teacher is suddenly going to come out swinging with a libel writ.All I can do is repeat - […]

I am not in any way, shape or form a tecchie.

I treat my lap-top like a sort of lightweight typewriter. I go on the net to file my stories. And that’s about it.

Which might generally indicate that my chances of getting the Clavier book to go “viral” are slim.

However. […]

Most authors have an agent. I guess if they’re really smoking, they might have two.
I, bizarrely, have acquired THREE of ‘em!
And this is me with good Jenny Brown, Scotland’s premier agent, who is currently hawking various bits of my stuff around the place. (She’s on www.jennybrownassociates.com)
Down South, I’ve got Darin, who managed to place […]

If you’re a first-time author, then somehow you have to try and dig up some quotes from a celebrity or a journalist to stick on the front cover.

These quotes can really help sell a book - and they are incredibly difficult to come by.

You plead, you grovel, you […]

Hi - I’ve got a book out in one month’s time, and this blog is, I hope, going to help turn The Well-Tempered Clavier into a bestseller. It’s a love story, the tale of a 17-year-old Eton schoolboy and his 23-year-old piano mistress.
And the picture you see here is of me as a […]