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| A New Novel....but don''t hold your breath |
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| After much research, many drafts and what seems an a very long time, I finally have the pleasure of announcing THE MAN FROM SAIGON, a new novel to be published by Nan A Talese Books/Doubleday in the United States and Fourth Estate (part of Harper Collins) in the UK.
That’s the good news – and really it is very good – but the bad news is that those in the USA are in for a considerable wait. The Man From Saigon, a love story between news reporters during the war in Vietnam, will be published in Spring 2010 in the United States, but much earlier in the UK where you will be able to buy the book sometime in 2009.
I am not going to moan too much about the extraordinary wait to see a finished copy of my book – at least not today when there is so much more to complain about – the economy, for example, or the fact that my new energy-efficient toilets which save water so brilliantly appear to do so by failing to flush.
No, I won’t say anything more about it today, though of course I reserve the right to complain at length at a later date. Instead, I will just say to all the people who have been so nice to email in and ask when the new novel is coming, I can finally answer you. In the US it will be available in Spring 2010, if we all live that long and if any of us have any money left to buy such a thing as a novel, as apparently we are all going to be experiencing an economic apocalypse on a scale that will make food-hoarding, rifle-bearing survivalists appear like reasonable citizens with an eye on the future.
More on this later and on what I am going to be doing between now and Spring 2010 in order to fill my time, as clearly I’ll have an awful lot more of it. Obviously, there are my 5 sheep to attend to so that will be a major priority. The woollens, as they are called here at home, have grown to astounding sizes and are now the shape of ottomans but with the texture of a long-pile wool carpet. They are demanding and vocal creatures who have long conversations with me about how they need to be fed, apparently constantly.
You might wonder if they are still afraid of humans. The short answer is no, not in the slightest. In fact, if you go out with a bucket they will stampede you, step on you, hurl you to the ground and trample you. Then, when your bruised and bloody corpse can breathe no more, they will stand on your chest and bah right into your face requesting more food.
They would not wait until 2010 for a novel if they wanted such a thing. If it weren’t for electric fence and five bar gates, they’d be standing at the back door screaming.
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| Wednesday, November 12, 2008 | 09:12:42 |
| Comment by Judy |
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| Congratulations on your new book, and don't moan too loudly about having to wait just over a year. There are authors out there who are on the 2011 list already, and I had to wait three years for one of my books... |
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| Friday, January 02, 2009 | 01:35:42 |
