newsletter: december, 200
I Hope You Have A Good Life, which Crown published this year, was recently the subject of a long feature in People magazine (11/12/2000). A short extract from the book appears in the Winter edition of Lilith, the independent Jewish women’s magazine. A paperback edition is planned for 2001, but no definite date of publication as yet.
In the UK and Ireland, Little Brown plans to publish a paperback edition of the book under the original British title, All That Really Matters, in March 2001. This will coincide with a five-day reading of the book on BBC4 Radio, which has an enormous audience. I am not absolutely sure why the American publishers changed the title. The cultural differences between the two countries are too enormous for me to fathom, and I’ve lived in both for long periods. (My bafflement is probably one of the reasons I live in the Republic of Ireland now, although Ireland is a conundrum all its own.)
Also in the UK, in April/May, a new novel entitled The Bad Fire is being published by HarperCollins. This is a novel of family secrets and crime, set in my home town of Glasgow, a city I’ve always wanted to write about. It’s a city both beautiful and demonic, and terrific background for a book.
I expect to be at The Edinburgh International Book Festival in August, where I hope to read from this novel.
In connection with I Hope You Have A Good Life, a tentative plan is being worked out for me to do some readings in California in April; Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and Berkeley. This is in the early stages of planning. More later.
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