The Ambulance Box
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Many thanks to Robert Peake for his sensitive and enthusiastic review of The Ambulance Box. As Robert says, he and I share the grief of having lost a newborn son, so his assessment of the book is of particular significance to me. Here’s a taste: Sentimentality and easy words seem as though they might never
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From Wednesday next week, I’ll be popping up here and there on the blogosphere, subjecting myself to the inquisitions of a varied bunch of bloggers. Here’s the full itinerary*: 10 June – Our sweet old etcetera … 17 June – The Crafty Writer 23 June – One Night Stanzas 26 June – Douglas Robertson 29
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Well, I almost was: the covers for The Ambulance Box, The Opposite of Cabbage and Ian Gregson’s How We Met filled the screen momentarily as a clip from Salt’s Just One Book video was played. Priceless advertising! Chris got a few seconds on the campaign, on which you can read the latest here. You can
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Another review! It seems to be my collection’s weekend for reviews, especially ones with a HappenStance connection: Matt Merritt has just posted a wonderfully thoughtful, warm and generous appreciation of The Ambulance Box (the first link above). I’m indebted to him. Matt and I will be reading with Rob A Mackenzie and James W Wood
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Summertime (officially), and the temperature’s freezing. That’s Scotland’s wind chill for you. Otherwise, it’s a glorious morning; a fitting follow-up to a good night at the Black Bitch, with Herbie Hancock‘s Maiden Voyage playing in the background. I lost count, but I think there were close to 30 people there. It was mostly Linlithgow folk,
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Tomorrow night, I’m on home turf to launch The Ambulance Box in Linlithgow’s Black Bitch Inn*. I’m expecting a smaller crowd than at the SPL, but looking forward to it just as much. The event kicks off at 8 pm. There’s a bar and I’ll be reading two 15-minute sets, though I’ve yet to decide
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The Ambulance Box is being reprinted! The final copies of the initial print run were delivered to me on Saturday (that’s another story I’ll tell in a post about StAnza) and a reprint of the hardback will be available in the next few weeks. We had discussed reprinting in paperback, but apparently an order for
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