The Well-Tempered Clavier

Geordie - with crisps and Coke. A hog in heaven.
After considerable research I have yet to come across a single person who rates the cover of The Well-Tempered Clavier.
I did a book club in Edinburgh on Thursday and the women were scathing in the extreme about the raunchiness and generally non-literary feel of the cover.
“I […]

It’s time to introduce another member of the Legend Press staff - the lovely Emma.
Now Emma is considerate, thoughtful, diligent, efficient, has a very good ear for prose, and, in almost every respect is the polar opposite of Idle Tom the publisher.
Sometimes it truly feels as if Idle Tom is the work-experience boy, just loafing […]

I don’t know how it has occurred, but Idle Tom, the bittersweet publisher, has become something of a central character in this blog …
Yesterday, for instance, Idle Tom had another of his witheringly good ideas:
“I’ve been thinking,” said Tom.
“Oh boy …”
“Do you think there might be any mileage to be had about this Amazon listing? […]

A reviewer, Juliet Boyle, has said some very complimentary things about the book.
 
Lovely.
 
However … she also makes a number of points about Bittersweet Tom’s cavalier style of editing.
 
The book itself - obviously - was given the thumbs-up. Apart from a few very mild complaints about my irksome prose, and my general tendency to write like […]

Timbles Maguire is concerned about the lack of links in this blog. Wants me to "sex it up" a little, much as they did with the WMD dossier, so herewith a most tasteful link:
It’s the pix of the Edinburgh launch - taken by my good friend Angus McLean, the only man amongst all my ligger […]