The Well-Tempered Clavier

Idle Tom the Publisher calls with good news. Great news! Quite superlative news!!
 
Somehow, some way, he’s managed to carve out a deal with an American publisher, Soho Press; even got a very modest advance for it too.
 
However …
 
"It’s weird," said Tom. "They’re changing the title -"
 
"Really?" I said. "What’re they going to call it?"
 
"Not a […]

News from the front-line of Idle Tom’s love-life, that gritty, unrelenting no-man’s land where my publisher finds himself all alone and hunkered down in a muddy, God-forsaken fox-hole.
 
"So Mr Coles, how’s it going?" asks the Idle One. That’s how he likes to start every conversation. I can imagine it - you stagger in off the […]

Off to London for a TOP LEVEL MEETING with Idle Tom the Publisher as well as my Uber agent, who for some reason came over all shy and retiring after hearing about this blog and said that "under no circumstances whatsoever" did he wish to appear in it by name.
 
Fair enough Darin - your wish […]