The Well-Tempered Clavier

Bizarre news from one of my deranged relatives.
He took great delight in telling me all about it too …
Amongst many other things, I’ve been endeavouring to turn The Well-Tempered Clavier into a bestseller before it’s even hit the book-shelves.
Now wouldn’t that be tasty? Already move onto the second print run before the book’s come out.
So […]

Now it may just be down to this wretched on-off postal strike.
But I think that, much more likely, it’s actually down on to my own natural indolence.
I have a slight problem, you see, with the invites for the Clavier launch.
Which is two weeks away.
And I still haven’t got round to posting the invites. Haven’t even […]

Got my first look at The Well-Tempered Clavier yesterday - oh and very tasty it is too.
One might almost call the cover “classical”, were it not for the fact that the woman in the picture has her leg cocked up over the man’s rump.
Tom the publisher handed the book over in a restaurant, eyes expectantly […]

Well - I try to remain upbeat. Cheery. Even in the face of the most appalling adversity.

But this postal strike has been getting up my nose.

Next week, I’m not just sending out the launch invitations, but I’m sending out the books too; over 200 of the little darlings will be going out to the press […]

I am, very occasio-nally, capable of having a good idea.
But, more often than not, they tend not to be quite fully thought through.
Did anyone mention the word cretinous?
So, just for the sake of example, I have been attempting to get this great book “The Well-Tempered Clavier” off the ground in any number of ways.
There’s this […]

Ever eager to help get The Well-Tempered Clavier book off the ground, I’ve just ordered up 1,000 postcards.
These fliers will be handed out on the streets by my vagrant friends in Edinburgh.
Now I’m not saying that the design of the flier is great. But it does the job. It’s got a picture of the book-cover […]

Occasionally you may read chunks of new books in the national news - and may wonder how on earth these no-name authors have got their bits of drivel to be serialised.

Well, I guess that if you were a first-time author and had a really, really outstanding book on your hands, then you might have a […]

Not another picture of me - no. For a kicker, he’s a lot uglier than me - and for seconds, he’s a lot smaller.
But he does have a certain brooding edginess about him …
This boy is, of course, Jamie Bell - star of Billy Elliot and, most recently, Hallam Foe.
And, […]