Botched spellings - surprisingly not the fault of Idle Tom
The Lord giveth - and the Lord taketh away.
My first review - of sorts - in a national paper.
The Daily Express carried about an inch last Friday. Not that I’m not grateful - all reviews welcome.
But I did feel ever so slightly miffed …
Bear in mind, by the way, that I have been writing huge features for this paper for over four years. Week in, week out, there will be another spread or comment piece by me, complete with name and picture byline.
So - here’s how they repaid one of their most loyal servants:
At Eton, Kim, 17, is drifting through his education when he hears new piano teacher India playing Bach. It changes Kim’s life for ever. With their affair comes the thrill of illicit love.
Well. It’s ok. Just about. I mean it’s a plug in a national newspaper, circulation of over 700,000. Not the greatest plug in the world. But there are a whole load of first-time novelists who’d salivate over a review like that.
However.
Maybe I’m just being a little nit-picky.
But did they really have to botch the spelling of my name? The entire story is only about 50 words long, and yet somehow they’ve got the book down as "The Well-Tempered Clavier", by William Cole. Cole?? Where the hell did that come from?
Renton said I should demand a correction. Probably be bigger than the original story.
November 8th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Cole is a much better name. As in Old King. And you’ll get fewer sill jokes about Newcastle.