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Paranoid thought bubbles.
New draft, new set of comments. I expect they’ll go something like this: Not 100% sure the whole God-thing is working. Four decent books out of five really isn’t bad going at all. Oh. Now that you explain it, it makes sense. On consideration, maybe the last draft was better. Nevermind. We’ll rerelease How I [...]
Amazing discovery: How to accelerate the ageing process.
As if trying to finish this book hadn’t already made me feel 112, today I discovered an amazing way to add decades to my age in seconds. I should preface this by saying that I’ve spent about £100 a year for twenty years on Clarins moisturizer in an optimistic attempt to look 26 forever. According [...]
I have just received the most perfect letter from a fan.
Here it is, in its entirety. Hi Meg, I hope you are well. I have found some unusual words and wondered if you had heard of them? nelipot – someone who walks without shoes estrapade – a horse who attempts to remove its rider brevirostrate – having a short nose batrachophagons-one who eats frogs Will [...]
The Home Stretch
The Home Stretch might be an overstatement, but I like a horse metaphor and the end is more or less in sight. I know, because I’ve started leaving the house. When things are going really badly, I tend to pace around seeking useless displacement activity at home. It’s a bit like studying for an exam. [...]
You know how you felt about that crazy boyfriend you once lived with? That’s how I feel about my book.
One day he’s gorgeous. Brings me coffee in bed. Reads Raymond Chandler out loud while I drink my coffee. Says I’m beautiful when I look like a walnut with legs. And means it. Then the next minute he’s flirting with some underage bimbo and saying he’d like to move to Moscow. If my book were [...]
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