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This is a nice surprise: Christina Hardyment at the Times has, uniquely, reviewed my audiobook. Every little helps, as a big corporation disingenuously says. Because they asked, Go Faster Stripe allowed them to sell it "off the page" via their bookselling service, for the reduced price of £13.50. It would be nice if we sold an extra few this way, to Times readers phoning a number, but it would be nicer if they bought it at source, from Go Faster Stripe, who are not a big corporation and deserve the business. (We might have more reviews if we could afford to pay a PR to hawk it round the papers. But I prefer it this way.)
Through no fault of her own, the nice Times lady has mistakenly assumed the book to be new (and not, say, six years old), saying that it is "part of the current recession's singing-in-the-rain reaction against the misery memoirs that dominated the past decade or so." Though I'm happy to be part of a recession-beating trend, if it helps, I do object slightly to be described as "following in the footsteps of Nigel Slater's memorable Toast." I love that book, but it came out in September 2003, while mine came out in February 2003.
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What's that in the distance? Hmm, it looks to be... a gift horse. What are you doing staring at it's teeth?!
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Not so much as staring a gift horse in the mouth as pointing out, very nicely, that the journo failed to pick up on a few points that should have been pretty obvious to anyone who took the trouble to do even the minimum of research before writing a story.
And yet I am incredibly grateful for the nice review, don't get me wrong. It's just a shame that it looks like I copied Nigel Slater! (If anything, it seems we had the same idea at the same time, except I wrote a chapter about food, and he got a whole book out of it. And, as I say, a splendid book. But he was subject to pervy advances on the knee of a relative, and I was not, so his story has more drama!)
God, Nigel Slater's book was WAY darker. No comparison.You wouldn't have wanted HIS childhood, Andrew.
If there isn't a new podcast soon, I'm going to ask for my money back.
PS the word verification thing says 'precums'
Minty, I'm assuming you know we're doing FIVE daily podcasts in a row, recorded live in Edinburgh, starting next Wednesday, Aug 19?
Surely that's enough to plug the gap. Also, we're attempting one via Twitter tomorrow at midday, which may or may not work. Sorry if you're not on Twitter. I'll try and find a way of transferring the finished "conversation" to the blog afterwards.
Andrew Collins "Film Buff" on The One show chatting to Germain Greer! Huzzah!
twitter-cast today ?
oh dear. I sense productivity in a major software company going down the pan around noon....
I don't know why but links to the Times website (from any source, not just this instance) never work for me any more- I always get page not found. Is it working for other people?
As a Macophile could you not get it to read out the twitter feeds, record that in Audacity and then release that as a podcast?
Mind you, there'd have to be a hefty prize for anyone who could actually get to the end of it, as it would be pretty much unlisteneable.
There's a full transcript of the Twitcast on Richard's blog. It's a little tricky to follow, but so was the real thing.
David Cameron said "too many twits makes a twat" as usual he was wrong, in this case the more twits the better. It was as chaotic as expected but a good experiment.
The website stickam.com might be a smoother experience, it's free and easy to subscribe to and it can combine multiple audio and or webcams as well as instant chat. ideal for the aspiring tv presenter in us all.
I wouldn't despair about sales Andrew.
We had a fantastic CD review in The Guardian for a Mike Figgis album we released and it was available through their shop. It sold a handful of copies via their shop whilst continuing to sell well through our own online shop.
In other words, the coverage helps but people will still probably buy through Go Faster.
Pete
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