Posts from May 2008

Brilliant Ideas For Other People: Part One (May 5th, 2008)

Like most brilliant people, I often come up with brilliant ideas for businesses that I know I’ll never bother to do anything with.
And then, inevitably, a few months later, some other clown has the exact same idea and gets all the credit. And rightly so, I suppose. It was kind of inevitable that someone else [...]



Just what a relentless self-promotor like me needs: a publicist (May 2nd, 2008)

Yesterday I finally met Rebecca, the lovely person who is handling the press for the book. She does press for Mil Millington too, so I’m in great hands.
Mil has a book our in July as well and sent me a very supportive email when he heard about my pub. date: “Way to dissipate their energy, [...]



The end of the tour (May 1st, 2008)

Well, that was America. Good times, good times.
If you didn’t get a chance to join me on any of my fifty million stops – here’s what you missed…

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