The Well-Tempered Clavier

Idle Tom the publisher calls to ask me about Tough Guy - the Mud run, that is, that I did on Sunday.
 
"Jeez," he said. "I just read the story in the Guardian! It looked really tough!" (Fancy a look at the Guardian story? Click here)
 

 
"It was sort of middling-tough, I guess. Though there were a […]

Idle Tom the publisher calls with bad news - some very bad news.
 
Emma, lynch-pin of the entire Legend Press operation and the sole restraining influence on Idle Tom, is leaving.
 
"That’s terrible," I said. "Couldn’t you give her a pay-rise? A new position? She’d make a great Chief Executive."
 
"She’s quite adamant," he said. "She’s going off […]

 
MADMAN ALERT: Has this glinting-eyed Wurzel  lost his marbles? Is he cracked? Has it all been too much for him?
 
Frankly, he looks like he has finally teetered over the edge.
 
Or could it be that he is, in fact … A Tough Guy!
 

 
Ah yes - on Sunday, I was immersing myself in "The Killing Fields" […]

After my very slight rant about cheapo copies of The Well-Tempered Clavier going on the market for £3, I have come across an example from the opposite end of the spectrum - signed copies of the book going for 29 quid on Ebay!
 
Just click here to see Gralat’s great offer …
 
Gralat, from Middlesex, not […]

About once a week I check out my page on Amazon.co.uk, just to verify that The Well-Tempered Clavier hasn’t sunk without trace.
 
I can report that my doughty little ship is still afloat - just - and is still the Perfect Partner for my ex-wife’s book Daisy Dooley.
 
I sense it in my waters that the pair […]

Idle Tom the publisher has been tickled by this age-old picture of me with the internationally famous author Jordan.
 
"It all helps," he said. "You never know, some of Jordan’s glory may rub off on you."
 
"I might even end up in OK! magazine with her," I said. "Wouldn’t that be a triumph?"
 
I could sense from […]

Some amazed reactions to the fact that our foremost topless model, Jordan - aka Katie Price author of "Crystal" - should be seen hobnobbing with riff-raff like me.
 
I called up a mate, Mark Pilbrow, to tell him the good news.
 
"Just dug up an old picture from my Sun days," I told Mark. "You can see […]

 
How very galling: Not just a picture of me with four Sun Page Three girls, but me with one of Britain’s biggest selling authors! No kidding!
 
This picture must have been taken about 13 years ago, during my days as a Sun staff reporter. Observe the dark blue suit, black shoes and hint of a pager […]