New Celebrity Friend

It has been exactly a week now since I first started my blog. My goodness what a giddy time it has been! I’ve been interviewed by Maurice Boland himself on Radio Europe about my new book, Recollections of a Racketeer, as well as a receiving a most positive book review in Zoo Magazine. I’ve also made a host of new celebrity friends from the Trebuchet inventor to the Hollywood model in Zoo. Just thinking of the new direction my life as a famous author is taking has got me all of a flutter. It will be a non-stop round of publishers’ parties. Whenever will I have time to write?

I asked my wife what she thought of my new celebrity friend, Amii Grove, from Zoo Magazine.
“No need to worry about her drowning” my wife said. “She’s got her own flotation devices.”
I wasn’t sure whether to interpret that as approval or not. Women are funny creatures and hard to read sometimes.
I asked my agent Andrew what he thought.
“She’s certainly an improvement over your old college friend Alan Green” he said.
“You mean because she hasn’t got a bushy, straggly beard?” I said.
“Not that you know of” he sniffed.
“Not in any of the photos that I saw” I said.

It’s been a stressful week and I need to relax. I think I’ll just sit in the garden and read my Zoo Magazine review again. “Dull? Never … Gripping? Always!” I love it! Maybe just a wee glass of cooking sherry while I study the sober judgment of my peers.