they are my favourite store, having just stocked up on the paperback of my most recent novel, ‘Are You With Me?’ which is on sale in their supermarkets at 3 quid Special Offer.
In my view, it’s my best work to date, but it was completely overlooked by the Lit press, and I thought it was a gonner. The publishers have re-branded it with a mass market-type jacket, here:
http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=65&pid=583783
which, rather incongruously, contains within it a literary novel. The only round-up review it received on its original publication a year ago was in the New Statesman (apart from some office junior who got hold of it for The Independent on Sunday, who, in all likelihood, read it upside down in the park while he was asleep.)
New Statesman review here:
http://www.newstatesman.com/200708300047
It’s a coming of age story set mainly in Norfolk, with one of the sub-themes being a contemplation of our culture of fame.
Marketing…marketing, eh winger! It is indeed one of your better novels. Try it again using an alias. Instead of the gayish sounding ‘Stephen Foster’, use something like ‘Rory McCormack’ or summat similar. That’s a real guy’s name.
Hope you’re well, Boy. Seeya termorrer.
OS.
By: OS. on May 3, 2008
at 12:41 pm