I released The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat this time last year. I’m super proud of the book & genuinely think it has captured the zeitgeist. The circumstances of the book have become more and more relevant as the viciousness of this era reveals itself. Anyway, here’s a review that nailed it
Technically the Roy Orbison one was a novel book ended by some of his short stories... novel is in the title of it!
A bit like finishing a doctorate... always one more step to go, somewhere in the future, from first draft to final to draft to submission, revisions, re-submission, acceptance, graduation. :O
Rat imitating life imitating Rat
A short piece on what happened to a friend of mine to inspire me to write a book on our emergency refugee intakes: thespinoff.co.nz/books/05-04-...
It's been great working with you, too, Jen. Looking forward to seeing this out in the world, soon!
Even the Clubs and Socs lunch at Otago Uni is $4 these days: www.ousa.org.nz/clubsandsocs... (don't believe the hyperlink text)
That was one of Arthur's gags - signed copies for $15; pristine ones for $20...
We're doing our damnedest to restrict supply. Nothing I'd love more than to see them popping off for USD$300 a piece on Amazon. That said, I might need to pop up first for that to ever take place...
haha, well... I mean... we'll use the whole tweet. My real question is ampersand or 'and'...?
TY!
We're about to do a reprint - a Christmas bestseller?! - can we throw this one in the frontispiece? Bran agreeing of course...
You'd think so but what if reading turns into a habit, and that habit's name is Bro Literacy. The internet, Bran, the internet creates weird subcultures...
