The Well-Tempered Clavier

When you go out on these big jobs - these talks, these lectures, these signings - it’s really important to have a great backroom team behind you.
 
I’m talking about the sort of team that’s got everything in place. Got the infrastructure there. Fingers on pulses. Kinda knows what they’re doing.
 
Just makes life a little easier.
 
Whereupon […]

A call from Lucy who is the perceptive, genial, accomplished and charming new employee that has been taken on at Legend Press. I’ll say one thing for Idle Tom the Publisher - he certainly knows how to pick his staff.
 
I met Lucy for the first time last week at Eton - still smiling at the […]

I don’t want to be whiny about my publisher, Idle Tom.
 
I mean he’s got a lot of great things going for him. Plumped for my book, just for starters.
 
So, first of all I’d like to accentuate the positive. Idle Tom is a good guy. Personable. Charming. Bookish. Idle.
 
But - if I may - there are […]

Idle Tom the Publisher has announced that he has been short-listed for The Apprentice 2009.
 
He’s just rubbing his hands at the prospect of working for Sir Alan Sugar …
 
"Have you seen The Apprentice?" I said. "Do you know what you’re doing?"
 
"Of course I’ve seen The Apprentice," said Idle Tom. "It looks like fun. I think […]