He’s Been. He’s Gone. He’s Done It.
Well - I hadn’t thought that I’d been one for Kiss ‘n’ Tells …
But if it helps flog the book, then an author’s gotta do what an author’s gotta do.
And so it was that yesterday, and for the first time, I - to give it its technical term - "spilled my guts" about what life was like on the edge of the volcano. My one year of marriage, that is, with Anna Pasternak - also a writer of note.
As I mentioned in my last posting, never in history has a guy given such a colossal plug to a book by his ex-wife.
Click here to read the Mail on Sunday story in full
Idle Tom the publisher was very happy indeed.
"Magnificent!" he said. "A triumph!"
"Thanks Tom! Glad you liked it."
"Do you, umm, do you think there might be any more mileage in this …"
"Possibly. I guess Grazia and a few other mags might go for it …"
"But what we really need is for Anna to lose her rag -"
"You might be onto something there Tom!"
"A cat-fight!" He said, his eyes going over all misty. "A real ding-dong cat-fight between two exes, both of them authors, and both of them taking lumps out of each other. And all to plug their two new books!"
"Genius, Tom! Let’s hope that the volcano is about to blow!"
November 26th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
I enjoyed reading the offline copy on the train yesterday!
Jamie
November 27th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Until I hear her side of the story I’m not going to comment on the relationship but I agree it was a tremendous plug for her book! And yes, they are compatible to the extreme. You couldn’t make it up. If this was the plot of the next chick-lit, it’d get slated for lack of realism.