The Well-Tempered Clavier

We’re on our way! Well … sort of on our way! Not that this great shuddering bird has had lift off yet, but I can perhaps sense a little bit of wind in the face.
Idle Tom the publisher called to say that he’s just signed a contract for a "Big Print" issue of The Well-Tempered […]

I have dreamt up a particularly good stunt with Idle Tom the publisher. It’s about books. And it’s about sex.
 
Looks like it’s got tabloid story written all over it …
 
This particular scheme is called Book Lovers, and after over a month of messing around, this project is finally about ready to judder off the ground.
 
The […]

Very important for us literary types to keep in shape. Writing’s changed quite a bit these days, you know. Not for us the lardy life of writing a bit in the morning before getting sozzled at the club at lunch.
No - those of us that take our writing seriously, we work hard, we exercise hard […]

Idle Tom the publisher calls with "great news" - in fact it was such "great news" that he’d already upped up and put it on his web-site.
"It’s fantastic!" he said. "A great result!"
"Oh aye?" I said. Maybe I was just being exceptionally cautious. Maybe, I’d been burned once too often. But one thing I was […]

My publishers, Legend Press, are making the most of Will Smith’s latest blockbuster. Some think that Idle Tom the publisher has lost his marbles on this one; I, however, admire his chutzpah.
The number one film at the box office at the moment is “I Am Legend” starring Will Smith - the story of the last […]

Saw a clairvoyant yesterday - Amalia - who currently has her gypsy caravan parked up on Prince’s Street in Edinburgh. Cross her palm with £20 and she will tell you your future.
We had much to discuss.
Primarily: Is any of this stuff that I’m doing, this casting-of-bread-on-the-waters, going to come off? Will The Well-Tempered Clavier turn […]

In this business of turning The Well-Tempered Clavier into a bestseller, it is always Maguire who is there to act as my conscience. He is the Jiminy Crickett to my wooden-headed Pinocchio.
Of late, Maguire has been most concerned at my planned usage of the Gorgeous Lovelies, the five Edinburgh students whom I’m hoping to enlist […]

Saw a cousin-in-law today, Amir, who wished me a most prosperous 2008 - and after I’d slung the compliment straight back, we got down to business.
"Been reading your blog," said Amir.
"Welll …" I said in my most modest manner. What else does one do? "It sometimes has its moments."
"Yes that’s right," Amir continued. "Sometimes there’s […]