If This Is A Blog Then What's Christmas?

(Thanks, whoever left it on my blog yesterday.)

And for a little more food for thought, here’s a very funny blog.

I’ve been getting emails about a link or something that appears on this site then goes to another site that’s eerily all about me (there are a few mentions in this comments section).

To be honest, I’m a bit confused. I haven’t had this link appear on my site so I haven’t seen what it’s about, but I’ve now had a bunch of emails asking what it’s for.

Dunno.

Has someone got the link to the actual site? Or maybe a screen grab?

I’m intrigued.

After the John Lewis furore I’m not 100% sure this is the wisest move for another department store (thanks, L):

It’s got so much in it, you need a second, third or eighteenth watch to take it all in, and the music (Dracula by Basement Jaxx) is ‘well bangin”.

But it’s the one that most befuddles my head as I try to imagine what the script said.

Come on Rich, what does this look like in words?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZC2219U6Co&feature=player_embedded

And there’s also a kind review on Amazon.

Voila.

(Thanks, ALS.)

(Thanks, G.)

Fill your boots, my friends, fill your motherfucking boots.

When I finished this book I tried to get an agent interested.

And I decided to write a blog about that process.

It’s an interesting read in retrospect. You’ll discover that Instinct was initially called Insecticide (too long for the cover of a book of this genre, apparently) and you’ll find that one of the early posts featured the first few chapters of the book, which have since changed substantially, but will give you a rough idea of what you will definitely be buying.

And have no fear, foreign readers. It’s also on sale in Hong Kong, India, USA, Australia, Spain, South Africa, New Zealand, a slightly cheaper place in India and Tesco.

Please enjoy reading it as much as I’m going to enjoy drinking a lot of alcohol this evening.

xxx

Although this is a fine opportunity to let you know that my novel Instinct is out tomorrow (consider the cover price to be some kind of payment for all the times you’ve read this blog; that way the book is sort of free), this post is really about another ad/lit clusterfuck.

The Meerkat has released a book, and it’s selling like cakes that are so hot they’d burn right though your stomach lining to the centre of the earth. Sales of 100,000 would be a great success for a novel, or any book for that matter. This book could well reach half a million by Christmas.

Now, I quite like the ads, but I’m somewhat surprised at the number of people who want to buy the autobiography of a fictional meerkat. I guess no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the British public, but this is a hit beyond even the less intelligent of these isles.

And I take my hat right off to that. Three cheers to everyone behind it.

And a few questions: how involved were the agency? Who gets the profits? Who wrote the book? Is this all helping Compare the Market, or has everyone forgotten about all that?

If anyone from VCCP can add some insight, please do so in the comments section.

Inquiring minds want to know.

UPDATE: All is here.