The answer is that they all have, or will have, had a book of theirs be the subject of ianslife's monthly book club. They did Philip Pullman last month, they're doing Monica Ali's Brick Lane next month, and last night, they did me.

Philip Pullman, Jonny Nexus, Monica Ali. Not a bad sequence. And one that's worth repeating, if for no other reason than that it will make a pretty cool Google fragment if anyone other than me ever Googles my name. Philip Pullman, Jonny Nexus, Monica Ali. (Hello Mr Googlebot!)

They were nice and polite and only mentioned the bits about the book they did like. (I'm sure there were lots of things they didn't). They also asked lots of hard questions like: "How did you think up the idea of the [thing I won't mention as it's a minor spoiler]?" which produced from me a long, rambling and unhelpful reply which can basically be summarised as: "I don't know, I can't remember, I think I was in Greenwich at the time."

But it was fun, and ianslife took some pictures which I'll hopefully be able to put up sometime.

In other news, I think Game Night might actually be back in print! (As I've explained in a comment on my previous post on the subject, when your book is print-on-demand, going out of print is a cockup rather than an achievement). At least, it appears to be available on both Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com, although only the cheaper than standard price version is currently available on .co.uk (but since that's the one that everyone buys, it's not really relevant).

The final bit of news is that I have my first target/deadline for the new novel, which I'm currently plotting. ianslife's book club have kindly offered to make it their book of the month this time next year.

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