“And there it was. An entire website dedicated to me – created by Karen and full of details of our relationship, stories about how much of a crap boyfriend I had been in every single way. How her friends had always hated me. How I was a worthless ‘douchebag’ (her favourite word ). But it was worse than that. Much worse. She’d been recruiting.”

Interview number two, and today it’s the turn of Rebecca Lewis, my publicist at Orion and better known to readers of this blog as RFW&N. I had originally planned to ask her about whether she thought I’d misrepresented the publishing industry in The Book, how one publicises a book and all manner of other book-related things.

Unfortunately, though, Rebecca had other ideas…

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