Perking the Pansies Has Moved

Perking the Pansies has moved lock, stock and barrel to Wordpress. For Jack Scott’s random and not so random musings, click here.

Have It Your Way

Are you a thoroughly modern Millie and would like to download Perking the Pansies to your fancy Kindle thingy bobby? Perhaps you’re opposed to Amazon taking over the world? (Of course, I couldn’t possibly comment.) Or maybe you’re a bit of a traditionalist who likes to browse the shelves and thumb through the latest releases? Well, you can do all these things. Perking the Pansies is available to download to Kindle, to purchase online at WH Smiths and Waterstones (and many other online stores), and to order at any good bookshop near you. Go on, you know you want to.

Alternatively you could buy the paperback or Kindle edition through my website and I'll earn an extra few pence. No pressure.

Houston, We Have Lift-off

An enormous thank you to On the Ege and Impossibly Glamorous for kick-starting the publicity campaign for Perking the Pansies, Jack and Liam move to Turkey. This was done without any prompting from me. I'm really touched. Find out what other reviewers have said about the book here. And that's not all. The Displaced Nation have listed the book on their Best of 2011 Expat Books and it's on the BlogExpat Christmas list.

On the day Perking the Pansies hit the presses, I found out that Joe Storey-Scott, the Book & Film Buyer for Millivres Prowler Group, contacted my publisher, Jo Parfitt. Prowler is Blighty’s premiere gay lifestyle chain with outlets in Birmingham, Brighton and a London flagship store in Brewer Street, Soho. Joe has agreed to stock the book. Wow. Thank you, Joe. The next day the book entered Amazon’s top ten of forthcoming biographies. It’s above the paperback release of Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years. Blimey.

Two Nations Divided by a Common Language

I recently received the first edits back for the book. I downloaded the file with nervous anticipation, expecting it to be mauled with angry red lines and a must do better report at the end. I was pleasantly surprised to find the text relatively intact. My editor is a talented young man from across the pond called Kilian Kröll. Kilian’s day job is treading the boards as an eminent life coach. He’s also a superb writer and is moonlighting as editor at the request of my publisher, Jo Parfitt. Jo gave him the specific remit to check the text for British idioms and cultural references that might fly over the heads of our Yankee cousins. Kilian is well-qualified for the job and is doing sterling work – meticulous and professional. His interventions have been smart, literate and illuminating. Striking the right balance between keeping the essentially British feel of Perking the Pansies and appealing to the greatest possible audience is going to be tough. Cor blimey, mate.

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