Another half-week, and still Amazon are arsing about with the book. Emails continue to tumble into my inbox from people who are waiting for pre-orders, and now post-orders, non of which seem to have been delivered.
It really is fucking unbelievable.
Other emails tumbling into my inbox – from both inside and outside the UK – include [...]

Waiting for Zoe outside the Somerset House screening of Doctor Strangelove the other week, Sarah and I watched a chap from the Socialist Worker trying to get people to sign a ’stop the war’ petition.
He was wearing sunglasses and skinny jeans. He looked like a total cock.
Rule number one when trying to make eye-contact with [...]

One of my favourite sites in the world is someecards.com – an electronic greetings site created by some former writers for The Onion. I love everything about them – the slogans, obviously, but also the classsic illustrations they use. They’re just perfect.
In fact, they’re so perfect that when I wanted to send an ultra-personalised card [...]

From the Press Association review of Bringing Nothing that has just arrived in my inbox (thanks for the tip, Katya)…

“Although the title might sound slightly nauseating, author Paul Carr is a surprisingly witty writer. His tall tales about trying to start an internet company, nights spent on the tiles with dot com millionaires, and his [...]

…could they not find a dictionary?
In Borders, Charing Cross Road, my book is proudly displayed in the ‘Biograhpy’ [sic] section.
Awesmoe.

(Thanks to Zoe for the spot)

I’m just about to run out of the door to a meeting but just time to share two emails that I’ve just received.
First, perhaps in response to my post about Amazon, or perhaps by total coincidence, Helen emails to tell me that she ordered her copy of The Book from WHSmiths Online yesterday, and it [...]

Further to this, Amazon have emailed me back…
“Mr Carr.
Thank you for contacting Amazon.co.uk,
Your book is in stock but it is coming from one of secondary warehouses. Because of this there is  currently an extended delivery date for your book. We expect to have your book in stock in one of our primary warehouses around the [...]

Ask any author and they’ll tell you: one of the best feelings in the world is the first time you see your new book in an actual book shop.
It’s not an ego thing – not entirely, anyway – but rather much-needed proof that this thing; This Thing that you spent all those months working on, [...]

sometimes when the screen hurts my eyes
or some memory of
a past love distracts me
from a vital task
I’ll read a book. Like the biography of
Charles Bukowski
I found in Waterstone’s on Monday.
I’d forgotton how
profoundly his poetry
annoys the living shit out of me.

Ladies and gentlemen… prrrresenting the British iJustine… (because God knows we needed one)… Miss…. Hermoine… Way…

(See Hermoine’s review of my party on her new blog)