The Well-Tempered Clavier

Hey! Anyone single out there?? Anyone looking for love?? Anyone want to take control of their destinies and, ummmm, start chatting up strangers?

One of the many projects that  Idle Tom the publisher and I have cooked up is this thing known as Fiction Flirting/Book Lovers (name still undecided as yet). It’s incredibly simple. You see someone you like the look of. You got up to them, smile your sweetest smile, hand over a copy of The Well-Tempered Clavier, and say, "Hi! I thought you’d like this book!"

It’s a variation of Book-Crossing. We’re not only getting the Clavier out there, but we have developed an ingenious new chat-up line. Dare I say classy?

A couple of papers, The Soaraway Sun and the London Paper, are interested in giving it a whirl.

But what we need are … GUINEA PIGS.

So does anyone out there fancy giving it a go? The timing couldn’t be better - spring is sprung, the grass is riz, and we’re just coming up to February 29 …

We’ll provide the books. We’ll provide ample coaching. We’ll provide the stickers to glue inside the front cover of the book (so that your swain can eventually track you down via Gorgeous Networks, our dating agency partner).

And all you’ve got to have is just that little bit of chutzpah to chat up that beefcake at the bus-stop; that doe-eyed dreamer in the corner of the cafe; that wistful houri delicately applying her lipstick in the library … get the picture??

If you too would like to find love and are not averse to having your picture in the papers, then do get in touch …

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