The Well-Tempered Clavier

Ever keen for more ideas on how to flog the Clavier book, I’ve bought Robert Holt’s "How to publish, promote and sell your own book".
What particularly caught my eye was a chapter at the end, "Working with an editor". Now I don’t know what sort of editor Robert had in mind - but I’ll better […]

I’m a big fan of Amazon. The Clavier book has been whistling - whistling - off the Amazon shelves this past fortnight.
But - and now this may just seem like yet another whiny cavil - Amazon has some strange little tics which I have found slightly unnerving.
For along with listing The Well-Tempered Clavier, Amazon also […]

My two boys - Geordie, two, and Dexter, five - the apples of my eye.
“I’ve got a great idea,” I said to Idle Tom the publisher. “I’ve got a couple of great looking kids. Why don’t we use them to flog the book?”
“Ummm, Okay, Bill,” said Idle Tom. “You’re going to get the boys out […]

It’s great now that the egg-heads have started reading the Clavier book - because they’re giving me the sort of juice which will enable me to come across as a real tyro. You know the sort. A Martin Amis-style, Booker-prize-winning genuine A-grade literary boffin.
"I loved your book," said one lady-reader. "And what I especially liked […]

Check it out - a slice of Eton College. And this is the very spot where the opening scene of the Clavier book occurs: The Burning Bush. An ornate street-light, as you can see, just adjacent to the School Hall. It’s here that Kim catches his first glimpse of India …
Having not set foot in […]

Well … as my publisher Hard-Working Tom might say - that is, if he’d ever read the Bible - "Let those that live by the sword, die by the sword."
Let me be the first to hold my hand up.
In shame.
Over the past few days, it may not have escaped your notice that I have been […]

 
Bittersweet Tom - the publisher. Only he could contrive to have himself pictured in front of a raft of Jeremy Clarkson books.
 
This was from my first book signing session at Waterstone’s in Windsor. Idle Tom came along too, just to see a professional salesman in action, and then at noon … we were off.
 
Team Clavier […]

The Lord giveth - and the Lord taketh away.
 
My first review - of sorts - in a national paper.
 
The Daily Express carried about an inch last Friday. Not that I’m not grateful - all reviews welcome.
 
But I did feel ever so slightly miffed …
 
Bear in mind, by the way, that I have been writing […]