A self-described “Trottermaniac” from Britain, Simon Stevenson, has created an online quiz to determine which Hogwash House the that horrible senile Picking Cap would put you in. Check it out. If you think you’ve been put in the wrong House (“There’s no way I’m Silverfish! I HATE Dorco!”) you can plead your case directly to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 2, 2002
Any creditors reading this blog will be happy to know that Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody is once again slated to be listed number #9 on the Sunday London Times list. The better news is that it sold 40% more books! Apparently T. Clancy, D. Steele, S. King and all those other fly-by-nights clogging [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 30, 2002
Anybody who’s interested can check out the review of Barry Trotter from last week’s Morning Star, Britain’s leading Marxist daily. Hey, I’ll take praise from anybody. Really. Except for people with two different-colored eyes, they’re creepy.
Continue reading...Thursday, September 26, 2002
Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody is getting reviewed like crazy in Britain and, from what my editor says, reviews are good. He may simply be protecting my oh-so-fragile ego, wise man. I wilt so easily. From The Morning Star, the UK’s only national daily socialist paper: “Gerber has succeeded in creating a marginally grotesque, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 24, 2002
Need I add “with a bullet”? Check out the list here. As the British say, “fuckin’ a!”
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 24, 2002
Apparently the irrepressible Kim Jong Il is constructing a walled city of capitalism. (The story is here.) Also, more good news from the UK. Barry is allegedly lurking around the Top 10 of the London Sunday Times fiction list. We won’t know for a few days, but here’s hoping.
Continue reading...Monday, September 23, 2002
A reader just wrote to say that he saw a copy of Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody in an airport in Zurich, surrounded by German-language books. Rapidly-escalating world tensions suddenly make a lot more sense…
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Thursday, October 3, 2002
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