Those of you who've never clicked on any of those 'my other sites' link on the right might be astonished and dismayed to know I don't spend my whole life writing about planning or my family. I also spend an inordinate amount of time writing about, and being in, cafes. So much so, that one of my blogs (egg bacon chips and beans) has recently been transformed into a book and published by Harper Collins. And now you, gentle reader, can buy a copy from Amazon, by clicking here. The picture above is the book being read by Pete Ashton. His review is here. He seems to like it.
Hurrah.
And by scrolling down the page a little you can even get an egg bacon chips and beans t-shirt. Well worth 18 of your earth pounds.
hearty congratulations. being published is a real stamp of approval i think (especially if people buy it too !)
i dream of having some of my pictures published, but i'm not sure a compendium of lost gloves would be great reading !
Posted by: funkypancake | November 04, 2005 at 07:15 AM
so how did you photograph lost gloves? ghostly images? i wrote a short story about odd socks: maybe we should get them together. could be the beginning of a great love story.
Posted by: Ellen | November 04, 2005 at 09:41 AM
Russell, I'm so happy for you, seriously. Congratulations.
I put a post on my website about it, I hope it's ok for you
(italian post)
http://lucavergano.typepad.com/blurb/2005/11/la_colazione_de.html
(english post)
http://lucavergano.typepad.com/the_blurber/2005/11/the_breakfast_o.html
Posted by: Luca Vergano | November 04, 2005 at 02:52 PM
Beautiful! Congrats.
I've only heard tales of these magnificent meals.
Posted by: Alex Mestas | November 04, 2005 at 04:15 PM
will you be giving free samples of greasy food stuck on each page to emulate the traditional egg-stuck-on-a-badly-washed-plate ?
ellen - my gloves are here:
http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/archives/cat_gloves.html
(it's quite a big page !)
Posted by: funkypancake | November 04, 2005 at 06:43 PM
Amazon says:
Customers who bought books by Russell Davies also bought books by these authors:
Ronald Searle
Geoffrey Willans
Melissa P.
Wayne Gould
Now, ideally, I expect you'd like to see that your customers also bought books by an impressive selection like Baudrillard, Chomsky and the Rev Awdry, but the Willans and Searle overlap is appropriate and flattering. However, Melissa P. is the author of 'One Hundred Strokes of the Brush before Bed', a book of supposedly autoboigraphical porn by an Italian schoolgirl. Apparently she writes: 'I want love, diary. I want to feel my heart melt, to see the stalactites of my ice shatter and sink in the river of passion, of beauty.' Seems a far cry from the ebcb.
Meanwhile, Wayne Gould seems to have written an inexplicably large number of Sudoku puzzle books. Very strange.
Posted by: neil | November 07, 2005 at 02:49 PM
I know. The Willans/Serle thing is because the other Russell Davies (who amazon think I am) wrote a biography of Ronald Searle. Not sure about 1000 strokes of the brush. It's currently being bundled as a package with my book - I can't see any relationship, I presume someone bought both at some point and Amazon's algorithms have decided that it'd make a good combination. Very odd.
Posted by: russell | November 07, 2005 at 02:54 PM