Books to Newcastle

[desperance]

As I said above - no, I'm sorry, I guess that should be below: so confusing, adjusting the language to suit the new orthodoxies - it's publication day (s'okay, I've only got another ten hours to keep mentioning this, then it stops being true) and no sooner had I posted the previous than there was a knock at the door, and fifty books arrived, fresh from the States. It's funny, I used to be a novelist, and only a novelist; the business has changed so much in the last ten or fifteen years, these days I'm a performer and a lecturer and a tutor and a bookseller and a publisher and an impresario and now an importer also. Of the second printing, alas, because the book sold out before publication; but hey, I'm not grumbling. And if anyone really, really wants the first edition, there's plenty out there. Anyone who doesn't care, they can buy a (signed!) copy from me, with a swift e-mail; or from The Aust Gate in the UK, or Amazon anywhere, or yr local bookstore, or other specialist dealers, or...

But that really is enough of the shameless self-promotion for now. I've got a launch party to organise. Did I say above, was party organiser on that list of Things I Do Now?