Neil's new note - New Year 2010
Thanks for the emails and messages that keep coming in here and on Facebook and Twitter. I do reply to them, but obviously I reply to the Facebook/Twitter ones faster. Those are the quickest places to reach me and the links are on this webpage. Yes, the new book is out. It's called Match Fixer and it promises sex, drugs, rock n roll, gambling and football, quite literally. And it's fictional. I can't stress that enough. The lawyers insist I can't stress that enough. It's fictional. It's out in Singapore and Malaysia now and the official launch for Singapore is Saturday, January 9th and I should be there in my Match Fixer T-shirt, so I can literally say: wrote the book, got the t-shirt. The Match Fixer/kelong T-shirt promises to be just as exciting as the book. After the January 9th launch in Singapore, I should be spending a few days in and around Singapore, popping up all over the place to shamelessly plug the book (I'm a father now, do you have any idea how fast toddlers go through shoes?). I'll also be nipping up to Kuala Lumpur for a day or two as readers/book buyers are really starting to show an interest in the books now. I could kiss each and every one of them. Be My Baby, my last book, had particularly lovely reviews in Malaysia and I couldn't be more grateful. I'm also chuffed to say that after the Singapore/Malaysia launches, Match Fixer will also be launched in Hong Kong, Thailand and South Korea and then London's calling. Doubly proud to say that Match Fixer will be the first of my books to go in proper, nationwide, across the UK. And that's got to have something to do with Tony Cottee. The West Ham legend really is a top bloke. At this point, I should explain that Tony Cottee (ex-England, West Ham, Everton, Selangor striker) had some very kind things to say about Match Fixer (and he didn't have to), as did Nick Leeson (author of Rogue Trader), Jake Needham (The Big Mango), FourFourTwo Australia magazine and West Ham specialist Tony McDonald (whose brilliant book West Ham United: The Managers is a must-read). Thanks, chaps. After England, Match Fixer moves on to Australia and hopefully New Zealand, via Penguin Australia, as the Socceroos move towards their Group of Death in the World Cup. So to recap, Match Fixer is being launched in this crucial World Cup year in: Singapore/Malaysia - January I couldn't be more chuffed - a book that takes in Dagenham, West Ham, Singapore and even Geelong and Melbourne in Australia - is now off to so many places - marvellous. It all comes after a great 2009, where Be My Baby got reprinted in Singapore and went into Australia, I did a bit of script polishing for a movie director hero of mine, England got the easiest World Cup group in history - certainly the best England group since The Beatles - and most of all my little girl started to walk, talk and stick her fingers in every available plug socket. A marvellous year. Have a great 2010. See you in Singapore and Malaysia in January. Neil |
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