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, Carr. You wanker.” Heh. He loves me really.

To kick things off, Rebecca (well, Orion, really) took me for lunch at the Covent Garden hotel – a place where I’ve previously drunk a great deal of port, but never eaten. It was excellent, and not just because we were seated right next to Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen and his black leather man bag (not a euphemism).

The big topic of conversation was how to promote the ebook version of the book, which is being published at the same time as the trade paperback. Rebecca knows press, you see, but noone really knows how to promote an ebook. Or even if it can be done.

One idea is for me to pen a special downloadable additional chapter of the book, detailing the various bits of intrigue and skulduggery that have gone on since I finished the original draft. I really like that idea – and not least because there are various situations I glossed over in the book – life’s too short to hold grudges, right? – but now which I’m kind of itching to tell. We’ll see.

The other thing we finally agreed on is what we’re going to call the thing… a mash-up of a couple of possibilities I’d suggested. The final title is: “Bringing Nothing To The Party: True Confessions Of A New Media Whore.” And, you know what? I like it.

Bringing Nothing To The Party, since 1979 – that’s me.