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Entries Tagged as 'Advice for Strays'

The first review

April 8th, 2010 10 Comments

The first article/review about my book has appeared in this month’s edition of Aesthetica magazine and I’m pretty blown away by it. I’d been interviewed about the novel but wasn’t expecting anything like this. It’s fantastic. Here. Have a blurry iPhone photo of it: The observant among you may recognise the photo as one I [...]

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Well, this is it

April 1st, 2010 5 Comments

Today is the day my first novel Advice for Strays is published. Today is a day I never thought I’d live to see. Today I have the day off work. Today the sun is shining. Today is a good day.

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Soon come

March 25th, 2010 4 Comments

It’s seven days until April 1st. Until Advice for Strays is published. I know this because my iPhone told me and my iPhone knows everything: I think I can realistically be described now as “squeeing my pants”.

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Live TV nerves of nervousness

March 10th, 2010 10 Comments

The Glamour piece seems to have gone down well. Really well. In fact so well, that the producers of ITV’s This Morning called my publicist on the day the magazine came out and asked if I’d come on the show for an interview. Holy. Wow. It’s live. It’s a live TV show. I’m going to [...]

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Writing about writing

March 2nd, 2010 No Comments

I’ve just done an interview for Aesthetica magazine (not sure which edition the piece will be in yet), a rather funky culture and arts publication. I have to come clean here and admit I’d never heard of it, but it’s the first piece of publicity that actually focuses on the novel and the writing of [...]

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And here it is, folks

February 15th, 2010 No Comments

So I received a box of the final version of my first novel, Advice for Strays,  in the mail from the publisher: I might have ripped the plastic off with my teeth. I might have done that. I might also have rolled around on them for a while, hugged them, kissed them, cried, laughed. Yep, [...]

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Not sure how much more WOW I can take..

February 11th, 2010 6 Comments

I’ve just heard that Advice for Strays will be the featured book in the book section of Marie Claire, May edition. I’m especially chuffed about this, even more so than with my four-page article in the April edition of Glamour magazine (which of course is also hugely exciting), as it’s the first piece that will [...]

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Glamourous

February 2nd, 2010 4 Comments

My publicist has been doing an amazing job. I’ve been asked to do a 2000-word first person piece for Glamour magazine, one of the biggest selling glossies in the UK. This in itself was fairly gobsmacking, but when I heard there was a photo shoot in the offing too I was stunned. Everything has happened [...]

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It lives

January 15th, 2010 No Comments

During my last meeting with my agent I was treated to a fine lunch and tales of foreign rights sales. Well, technically no sales yet, but Conville & Walsh have just started submitting to American and European publishers. Excitingment! Even more exciting was seeing the proof copy of Advice for Strays propped up on the [...]

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WOW OH WOW

November 17th, 2009 21 Comments

So this happened yesterday evening. I found a package from my publisher yesterday when I got home after work, containing five proof copies of Advice for Strays. What I did next: Gasped. Squeed. Almost threw up. Stroked them. Burst into tears. Laughed like a hyena. Cried some more. Smelled them. Opened one. Sobbed. Flicked through [...]

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