Diary

ROMANIAN TRIP

Posted: Monday, 14th November, 2011

I’m heading to Bucharest next week for the launch of Sanctus at the Gaudeamus book fair. This will be my ninth and last trip of the year and I’m really looking forward to it, for many reasons. Firstly, I’ve never been to Romania even though it’s been on my visit wish list for years.  Secondly, my Romanian publisher Allfa (who also publish Robert Harris) has done an absolutely amazing job of whipping up a storm of expectation so great that … Read more »

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SANCTUS LAUNCH

Posted: Friday, 15th April, 2011

Yesterday (14th April) the book finally hit the bookshelves. It’s been a year since SANCTUS sold at the ‘ash cloud’ London Book Fair and it has seemed like ages, and also no time at all, that publication has come round. I headed up to London yesterday afternoon with my wife and checked into the Meridian opposite Waterstone’s so we could have a prime view of the huge projection of the book cover on the four storey store front. It’s a … Read more »

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Signing my life away

Posted: Saturday, 2nd April, 2011

Friday 31st March 2011. Spent it in a strange, middling mood that swung between excitement and wierdness. I was in London signing first editions at HarperCollins and at Goldsboro Books off Charing cross road doing the same. There’s something about being confronted by a table full of your book that makes you realises that it’s actually happening and not some elaborate practical joke perpetrated by deep and subtle enemies intent on ultimately pulling the rug from under you and watching your … Read more »

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Sinking in Busy-ness

Posted: Wednesday, 16th March, 2011

I’ll start a diary, I said, to intricately chart the build up towards publishing of my first book. That was ages ago now… Trouble is I’m writing the second book at same time and always feel adding to this website rather than increasing the word count is sort of like the writing equivalent of methadone. It feels the same, looks the same, words appear on the screen but somehow you don’t get nearly the same hit at the end of … Read more »

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Writing a Diary

Posted: Tuesday, 11th January, 2011

2011 is the year Sanctus will be published. As it’s my first book it will all be new to me – the publicity, the launches, the frantic checking of Amazon ratings every five minutes. So rather than let it all just swirl away down the plughole of time I thought I’d attempt to record it.  Partly this is for me, so I can look back in years to come and remember the moment I stopped being a television producer and … Read more »

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