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The Professor is Landing

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Here he is. It’s starting to look as if the experiment has not been a complete disaster after all. I finished writing ‘When the Professor got Stuck in the Snow’ on 11th January, and on 21st February UPS knocked on the door with 400 hardbacks. So it can be done. If I’d waited for conventional publishing cogs to creak into gear it wouldn’t have been out until 2015. Thanks are due to my design genius nephew Luke for laying out the jacket with lightning speed, and to the printer, CPI, for working so fast and producing a really high quality edition.

We’re trying to get as many of them as possible to bookshops, and have had a great response so far – a quarter of the run is currently in transit. If you happen to be a bookseller, big or small, please do get in touch here. Likewise, if you’re a journo who feels like giving this reckless endeavour a bit of coverage, please say hello.

We’ve now opened our own shop too, and if eBooks are your thing you can buy it here.

Not convinced? You can try before you buy. The Independent on Sunday has run an extract  – it lives here.

In other news, the US edition of ‘Marry Me’ had the review of a lifetime in The Washington Post, and Spanish and Italian translations are out now too.

Finally, it wouldn’t be a launch without a launch party. Here are some photos from the event:

IMG_2058_2That’s me, Wife-features and the interns. The event was hosted by an unauthorised cutout of Jonny Woo taped to a wooden spatula. Here he is, mingling with the guests:

IMG_2071_2We love Jonny Woo – here’s why.

Happy reading.

Marry Me in America, and new book news

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COVER marry meThe US edition of Marry Me is out now, in an excellent and very pink paperback from our friends at Europa Editions.

In other news, at the tail end of next month I’ll be releasing a whole new novel – “When the Professor got Stuck in the Snow”. To mark my twentieth year in the book trade [starting as an unpacker at Waterstone’s in 1994] I’m going to be treating myself to a publication without a publisher. Apparently you can do that sort of thing these days. It’s looking set to be a low-key and ramshackle event, perhaps even shambolic, but we’ll get it out there somehow. It’ll be an e-book, and there will also be a run of old-fashioned paper copies for sentimentalists and Luddites like me.

I see many jiffy bags in my crystal ball. More details closer to the time…

In the meantime, it turns out the Christmas story I co-wrote for the Independent on Sunday can be found here. I know the decorations have come down, but never mind.

Happy reading.