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Congratulations, Sax!

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Ariadne

05:31 / 01.04.05

No, it's not an April Fool. At least, I hope not - I just bought it!
Congratulations, Sax - how do you feel? Do you plan to get very drunk at the launch tonight?

HCE

06:35 / 01.04.05

wait, I thought this had happened already?

congratulations to you, sir

Spaniel

07:06 / 01.04.05

I'll be heading to amazon/a book shop to pick up Hinterland ASAxP.

Spaniel

07:07 / 01.04.05

Dwight, he's only just being *published*.

sleazenation

07:13 / 01.04.05

Congratulations - do you feel saxy now?

Lilly Nowhere Late

07:44 / 01.04.05

Published what? Can you catch me up please? I promise to buy...I am a supporter of those I'm vaguely aware of y'know.

Lilly Nowhere Late

07:48 / 01.04.05

Nevermind, just googled it and found out for meself. Well done Sax. Be proud!

Spaniel

07:49 / 01.04.05

Right, I've just brought it offa Amazon, and, Sax, it better be good 'cause otherwise I'm gonna take all £15 worth out on your pretty little head, and you won't be able to do anything about it 'cause you're nothing but a poncey author.

adamswish

08:35 / 01.04.05

'cause you're nothing but a poncey author

Bet you wouldn't of said that to Papa Hemingway or the late great Hunter S if you'd known them boss.

Congratulations Sax.

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:44 / 01.04.05

Yes, Boboss, you should read a biography of Hunter S Thompson to teach you that not all writers are sissy boys, much like you should listen to The Downward Spiral to teach you that rock is NOT dead, and read, uh, Crowley or something to reach you that POW! ZAM! magic is not just for kids!

Sax, will it be in the Farringdon branch of Books Etc by 12.30pm today?

Spaniel

08:44 / 01.04.05

I bloody would. Prat with his bloody bells and his woolly jumpers.

Spaniel

08:59 / 01.04.05

Other prat with his trippy drugs and swearing.
Children swear because they think it's big and clever.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

09:05 / 01.04.05

w00t! Well done, Sax

Sax

10:45 / 01.04.05

Well, thanks muchly, folks. ABout 60 people coming to a launch at Waterstone's tonight, and after swanning around all morning with a very authorial swagger I've just suddenly started bricking it.

And what's worse, I have to stay in work all day AND conduct a load of staff appraisals, which is most definitely not authorish at all.

But I shall be going to have sex with a marlin and wrestle a bear later, and possibly even drink some beer. Papa would be so proud.

Ariadne

10:52 / 01.04.05

You can write all the appraisals in a suitably 'literary' style.
Or add 'write a novel' to each person's list of objectives and then tell them off for missing it.

Spaniel

10:55 / 01.04.05

The publicity thing must be a nightmare for many first novelists. I'd be doing poo-bads in my pants, fearful that I wouldn't be anywhere near as amusing as my product.

I'd probably have to don my charming suit (get pissed).

Alex's Grandma

11:27 / 01.04.05

( raises hand, is sitting at the back, is a bit pissed )

" Sax, where do you get your ideas from ? "

Liger Null

12:44 / 01.04.05

I had my local library order a copy. So now the poor kids in my neighborhood can be inspired by the immortal words of Sax!

Bill Posters

13:26 / 01.04.05

well done that man.

sine

19:44 / 01.04.05

Good show, sir! Many congrats.

iamus

20:25 / 01.04.05

Well done! Show those trees who's the boss!

Ganesh

21:08 / 01.04.05

Ours has just arrived from Amazon. I've just wrestled it off Xoc. I'm off to the toilet with it...

adamswish

22:06 / 01.04.05

But I shall be going to have sex with a marlin and wrestle a bear later, and possibly even drink some beer. Papa would be so proud.

Just be careful with the marlin Sax. There's a right end and a wrong end and I'd hate to see your writing career end in tradegy so early

Loomis

06:53 / 02.04.05

So ... how did the reading go Sax? Tell all!

Mazarine

07:04 / 02.04.05

I shall nudge my county library system to make purchase of your book, and the University library as well when Fall comes. Congratulations, mon cher.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:00 / 02.04.05

Sax: I'm well up for a copy of this, but I have a question...
I'm all for supporting my local independent bookshop, and would like to order it from there... but would it be better for your sales figures or whatever if I bought it from, I dunno, Borders or somewhere?

Alex's Grandma

22:21 / 02.04.05

My God.

I suppose fortune does favour the brave, but possibly arguably maybe not to that extent.

I haven't finished it yet, the novel, but I, along with everyone else who was in the audience, have seen the writer give generously, of himself.

Hemmingway, or I think anyone really, would have baulked at that perhaps, going quite so far. Like, 'It's only a book, man,' people would've said, 'Keep your trousers on.' They'd have said that as a euphemism, as a figure of speech.

Sax

19:50 / 03.04.05

It was good of you to come, Alex. Especially with that... thing on your face.

It went well. Had a couple of liveners beforehand to give me a bit of courage and got hammered immediately after.

Whisky Priestess

20:25 / 03.04.05

Profile shot is good. And I do hope you took home those huge "Waterstone's Welcomes" banners and rolled naked in them whooping, a la the million-dollars bed scene in Indecent Proposal. And if you didn't, why the hell not?

Ganesh

21:38 / 03.04.05

Awww, Author Sax is sooo cyooot!

*tickles screen*

"The Terminus". Hehehehh.

Tryphena Absent

07:42 / 04.04.05

Wow, the cover gleams!

Sax

09:53 / 05.04.05

I know. You could just wear it to a club, couldn't you?

Sax

19:11 / 08.04.05

Not shamelessly pushing this up to the top (oh, go on then, I am) but it occurred to me today that I only answered Stoatie's question

Sax: I'm well up for a copy of this, but I have a question...
I'm all for supporting my local independent bookshop, and would like to order it from there... but would it be better for your sales figures or whatever if I bought it from, I dunno, Borders or somewhere?

in my head. The right answer is that it doesn't matter where it's ordered from, really. So support your local bookshop!

Alex's Grandma

22:28 / 08.04.05

I ordered a copy from the local bookshop the other afternoon - presumably they'll be getting it off Amazon like anyone else would, but they still reckoned ten to twelve days for delivery, so either a) they're a bit untogether there, or b) Hinterland is flying off the shelves faster than expected, and is well on it's way to being this summer's must-have beach read.

From St Tropez down to Goa, this season's possibly going to be all about angst re: 3/4 length trousers, in much the same way that the last couple have been largely to do with all the terrible things that may or may not have happened to the Virgin Mary, y'know, afterwards.

It'd have to be a positive development, let's face it.

On the other hand though, maybe Sax doesn't really belong to 'us' any more. Perhaps he's now the world's ( insert whatever thing it is that Sax has meant to you, over the years. )

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:57 / 09.04.05

Thanks, Sax... that's the answer I was hoping for. And I haven't been able to get it yet anyway, as I've been skint. So next payday (about a fortnight and change, by my reckoning) I'll be ordering me one o' they buggers.

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