The Well-Tempered Clavier

Moi - and a selection of friends. Currently known as "The Chinless Wonders".
I’m planting this picture in the blog because I’ve just discovered a bizarre figure from my Flickr pictures.
I signed on to Flickr about a month or so ago and downloaded on a few tasty pictures. And - dolt that I am - I’d […]

Still don’t feel like you’ve been properly introduced to my ghastly alter ego, Jamie Prattlock?
 Just click on here and you can see what the Daily Mail’s readers were treated to last Monday, courtesy of my ex-wife. How ever will it all end up? I have no idea. But my hunch is that Jamie comes a […]

My publisher, Idle Tom, used an expression that I had not come across in quite a while: Sugaring the pill.
Now this is an expression which I normally associate with Mary Poppins. To me, it conjures up an image of turning something that is deeply unpalatable into something that can at least be swallowed.
But it would […]

Why is that so many of my conversations with Idle Tom the publisher seem to incorporate a sentence with the line, "Tommy, I’m not at all sure about this one"?
The brief story so far: Bill the author is trying to turn his novel The Well-Tempered Clavier into a bestseller … and Idle Tom has dreamt […]

The story so far: Bill is trying to turn his novel The Well-Tempered Clavier into a bestseller - and his publisher Idle Tom is trying to help him …

The man from Legend calls again - for ever a harbinger of evil deeds and facile thoughts …
He was crowing again. I could sense him dry-washing his […]

The story so far: Author Bill has a book out, The Well-Tempered Clavier - and is keen to know how it’s selling. Or if it’s selling at all …
Another day, another street hoarding goes up - this one courtesy of Jamie at Terinea. (Top-notch teccies, by the way. They made this site.)
But it did give […]

The story so far: Author Bill has a book out, The Well-Tempered Clavier; the publisher Idle Tom has finally decided to start spending …
There aren’t many things that surprise me. I’m one of those stiff upper-lip chaps, the like of which would have lost their leg at Waterloo and remarked, “Damme, Sir, I think a […]

The story so far: Bill the author is trying to get his book The Well-Tempered Clavier into the bestseller lists …

I have been working on Fleet Street now for 13 years - and in that time have made a few contacts with people who are now players. Contacts whom I had hoped to rope in […]