Clarkson quakes in boots!
I received a card from my publishers yesterday saying, "Happy publication day!" because the book (pictured) is out today. I've been too busy to look for it in any shops, but if you see one, do let me know. I understand it's in some offers, which is good. I'm only really posting this to provide a link to TV Cream's exclusive supplementary minisite, which they kindly created last May to coincide with the first edition. In case you didn't catch it at the time - and are that way inclined - it's the book's "deleted scenes" ie. all the offcuts which didn't make the final draft. (Although it doesn't include Richard Herring's name, as it had yet to be deleted at that stage.)
posted by Andrew Collins @ 4:35 PM
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Well I bought it first time round, and actually think it is the better of the three - well worth getting. Shame I can't read the extra chapter but there you go.
I enjoyed That's Me in the Corner the first time round too, and didn't feel in the slightest bit ripped off until I found out this week that I'd unwittingly bought the 'larger, more expensive' version. Still, does this mean that I now have a highly valuable first edition?
It's a stupid publishing convention, Cocktails. Out of my hands. Book not important enough to put out in hardback, so they put it out first in a bigger format paperback, then, a year later (unless it's a total bomb) in smaller, more affordable format with a more commercial cover. I prefer the new cover, though. It means my trilogy is actually a sixology, if you're a completist. And why would you be? (Hey, could you have really waited 14 months to read it in order to save a couple of pounds?)
Shame on me but I've only just got around to reading TMITC that I bought back in February. My sleep patterns have been so disturbed over that last six months or so that I've barely read anything on the bus to and from work. I'm pleased to say that TMITC is the first book in ages that I've not had to put down so I can have a sleep down Fulham Palace Road.
This is serious praise indeed!
I'll pop up to Borders today and hopefully get it in their "buy one get 2nd half price" deal. That way I get 2 books.
I almost availed of that offer last week with John Niven's Kill Your Friends [1]. But there was nothing else I really wanted (even at half price) and then I noticed it was £12.99, which is about 17 euro in real money.
So I bought Cormac Mcarthy's Border Trilogy for £10.99. Three books for the price of one. That's more like it!
I don't suppose I'm the only one who gets this tight around books. Is it because we think they should be free from libraries? When you consider what John Niven has put into this book, how he almost killed himself (and his friends) collecting the material, £12.99 doesn't sound too bad really.
I'm sure you put the best years of your life into TMITC, Andrew, sweated blood, but yet I'll still be happy to avail of the cheap price and hopefully half a free book into the bargain. Pathetic.
Still fecking annoyed about losing WDIAGR to the evil RyanAir empire. Perhaps someone could tell me what happened to the main character in the end.
[1] or "Eat Your Young" as I embarrassingly asked for. I covered up by telling the assistant that that's what I do.
I always ask for books as I'm utterly hopeless at finding them. Never could get to grips with the so called "alphabetical system".
I bought my copy today as part of a Boots lunchtime meal deal. Best £1.50 I've ever spent.
Although I don't know why they had the book refridgerated next to the cheese baguettes.
It's buy-one-get-one-half-price in WHSmiths at stations/airports, I've just seen one. Always good to be in the offers.
I had mine delivered yesterday. It's £5.49 at play.com with free delivery which is a bit of a bargain!
It's in Borders too - on buy one get one free (or was it buy one, get one half price?). I didn't buy it as (a) I have a huge pile of 'books to read' already and (b) I haven't read Heaven Knows... yet. I will buy them BOTH eventually Andrew, I promise!
David, Liverpool
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