Over the wall

I spoke to Waterstone's hub and buying department today and explained my predicament. To my surprise, they told me that this wasn't a problem and that individual branches could still order in copies of my novel to be stocked.

So, good news there.

Talks with branches of Waterstone's will continue on Wednesday.

Slight Hitch

Resuming my journey of getting THE HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS into as many Waterstone's stores as possible, I wandered into two more in the London area today. The managers in both were, as always, very friendly and both were interested in bringing in some copies of my novel.

However, it seems that Waterstone's purchasing system has changed - instead of buying in books from Gardners, they now do so from a centralised hub. I was told by the management that I would need to ensure that it was possible to get hold of copies of my novel from there. It seems that having an ISBN, etc. is not all that is needed. Oddly, branches that are already stocking my novel are unaffected by this change.

I'm not entirely sure what is needed of me now, but I'll be making a grand effort to find out what I need to do in order to get the stocking back up to speed.

Watch this space.

Lack of Updates

Real Life has sort of been getting in the way of my blogging at the moment (well, it's 24c outside, so who can really blame me).

Normal service will resume soon.

I plan to return to approaching Waterstone's branches this weekend. Will post how it goes. So far I have 6 branches of Waterstone's in London stocking THE HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS.

Two Articles

The Wharf, a local London docklands newspaper, has just put the interview they had with me up on their website. You can read it here,

http://www.wharf.co.uk/2009/06/former-lehman-employee-creates.html

A rather flattering title too, I think. The paper version will be out this week sometime, I'm told. I'm looking forward to adding it to my little scrap book at home (yes, I have one).

Also, in case you missed it, here is the interview that The Docklands did with me, now in normal web form, rather than the Flash version of the previous.

http://www.docklands24.co.uk/content/docklands/whatson/story.aspx?brand=Docklands&category=whatsonbooks&tBrand=docklands&tCategory=zwhatson&itemid=WeED02%20Jun%202009%2015%3A52%3A31%3A543

I've also found out that the Greenwich branch of Waterstone's has brought in some stock of HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS, which is great! I'll look forward to signing those for them at the weekend.

PSP Go!

Just seen photos and read some info on Sony's new PSP Go! Looks like a good little machine.

I don't know why, but I suddenly thought that a professional port of Blob Wars : Metal Blob Solid would be ideal for it. I had a mate who worked at SCEE, who could've helped to suggest that, but sadly I don't know if he's still there.

Well, maybe one day.