Killerwespen in Das Nest!
My novel is now available in German. I know from my analytics that I have, ooh, at least fifteen readers over there, so come on herren and frauleins*, fill your boots:
Why it’s called Das Nest, I’m not entirely sure. I mean, there is a nest in it (more than one, actually) but there’s also a packet of Kraft Mac’n’ Cheese, and they didn’t call the book Der KraftenMakencheesenchaften*.
Anyway, I now know how to compliment my wife in German:
And I wonder what they made of my acknowledgement to Arsene Wenger:
The reviews are somewhat impenetrable, but a quick hit of Google translate does give me this sentence:
I recommend this thriller lovers of insect horror stories. Thriller friends who like to read interesting books with depth, I recommend this book but from!
Anyway, if you are German, you can buy it here. If you are British and are still inexplicably without a copy, you can buy it here.
*I speak no German.
Ich speaka no German auch aber I believe they said that you’d like to thank Arsene Wenger for all the joyfull moments in the last 12 years.
Why do you have an acknowledgement to Arsene Wenger in your book?!
But George, surely you have a copy of the English version in which you can look this up?
I’ll assume you’ve lent it to so many people that you no longer know who has it and are just now awaiting delivery of a replacement copy.
I’d like to thank Arsene Wenger for his contribution to my happiness over the last dozen years.
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Martins
Aaaaahhhhhhhh!
Ben, were you ever in your career tempted to go client-side?
It has a stigma attached but I think now, more than ever, advertising will increasingly lose creatives as one arguably has more sway in house.
Although you would have to sleep at night knowing you worked in marketing.
Do you mean write in-house for one client?
Got no problem with that if it was the right client (Amnesty, EAT, Arsenal etc.).
Yup, I would too.
Although I think it’s harder to step outside the politics if you’re in house.
At least agencies (when they are good) can call it how they see it.
Whereas someone I know worked at a charity that liked full stops and found them to be eternally wading through their own bureaucratic turds rather than getting important work done.
thought you might like this. i was in a supermarket in Arizona recently and saw this. a mega book series written by two former ad guys. one of whom i used to work with at ddb. he got fired for being too old an expensive basically. who’s laughing now? Mr. Richard DiLallo that’s who. http://www.amazon.com/Alex-Crosss-TRIAL-James-Patterson/dp/0316070629
Ben – are you as happy with Mr Wenger’s last six as you were with the first six?
Just asking…
Not as happy, sure, but very happy.
I don’t mind the not winning trophies. I like the football (frustrating at times but usually the most enjoyable in the PL) and I love, love, love the principles. If anyone out there thinks we should have bought a goalie and another CB this term, I think we’ve done brilliantly without our best defender for an entire season (the Djourou/Koscielny partnership is the meanest in the league) and how the fuck do you predict losing your two best goalies at the same time?
Misfiring a little up front at the mo, but there was a good while that we were on fire. We have a tendency to choke when it matters, but it doesn’t bother me that much.
We beat Barca at home, lost to them away with ten men. That’s the ‘best team in the world’, by the way. A team that financially dopes its way to the top then taps up our captain.
Look at how much Chelsea spent to draw with Stoke and sit below us in the league. Ditto Man City. The only team above us has bought several players in the ¬£20m and ¬£30m bracket and look at their debt. Doing it within your means is another skill altogether, and that’s why Europe’s top managers voted Arsene the best of the last decade.
So the first 6 years: 100% happy.
The last 6: 95% happy.
6 with any other team in the world: much less, although I do have a soft spot for Fulham, just not with Sparky at the helm.
It’s 14 readers. Your analytics forgot to tell you that I’m Dutch and actually an economic refugee in Germania, sadly.
A stout defence.
Which is good.
Arsene’s looking for stout defenders.
“we have a tendency to choke when it matters, but it doesn‚Äôt bother me that much”
wow, isn’t that a sign of an average team?
Obviously not. Have a look at the league table and see who’s second.
(Pssst… you can’t be second in the Premier League towards the end of the season by being ‘average’. Nor can you beat 2011 Barcelona.)
Thank you for your soft spot for Fulham – I don’t think I can take any more stick over the Wacko Jacko statue. But if my Mo-directed alternative is to support Chelsea if I don’t like it, I’m keeping my mouth firmly shut.
I have a bit of a soft spot for Arsenal, truth be told.
Boot – I think Mo said any haters could ‘go to hell’ didn’t he? That’s The Lane in my book…..