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UK Book Tour

Just to let you know that there are three events planned around the publication of KILLER MOVE in the UK.

Wednesday 6 July 2011 at 7:00PM
Waterstones, Manchester Deansgate
0843 290 8485
www.waterstones.com

Thursday 7 July 2011 at 6:30PM
Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street Glasgow
Southern Scotland
0843 290 8345

Friday 8 July 2011 at 6:30PM
No Alibis Bookshop, Belfast
Northern Ireland
028 9031 9601
http://www.noalibis.com/

It’s not entirely clear whether the Waterstones events are ticketed, so it may be worth calling to check. The No Alibis event is definitely ticketed.The events will involve the usual reading, answering questions, summoning of Dracula, the Lord of the Undead, and so forth. I’m not doing the nude tightrope-walking again though.

For those who can’t make it, the book is now available for pre-order at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. I’m just saying. Don’t feel you necessarily have to order it for yourself, your family and every single one of your friends, even if they can’t read.

Anyway – enough about me. How are you?

Uncle Ralph

Bar, New York

There’s no story or observation here. I just need to mark and honour out loud the passing of Ralph Vicinanza, whose unexpected death on Sunday was announced late yesterday. A giant in the publishing industry, and yet the most gentle and intelligent human being you could hope to meet: friend, mentor, an extraordinary person in every way, a man whose passing leaves a terrible hole in the world.

Ralph was my agent for the last fifteen years, but also far more than that: he was a core part of the lives of my wife and I: a supportive, thoughtful, beaming spirit – both loving and loveable – whose warmth and kindness seemed to know no bounds.

I can’t believe he’s gone. He always was, and always will be, Uncle Ralph to us. Our thoughts go out to Terrance, and all the others he leaves behind.

Extras wanted…

In case anyone is in the N7 area this weekend, and fancies being a film extra… This just in from producer Elizabeth Pinto:

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