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You're That F****** Author Aren't You?
25th July 2018(Blog Posting)
People often ask me about being an author; the women, the drugs, the library cataloguing systems etc, but before they can make meaningful eye contact with me I have them removed by my bodyguards, now that I'm famous and everything.
Around 10% of the time is taken up by writing, the rest fannying around with invoices, publishers and looking for a pen down the back of the settee. It does however throw up potential material, in the form of the following exchanges.
ME: (reluctantly) I'm an author.
'What do you write?'
Non-fiction, mainly.
'Is that the one that's real, or the other one?'
ME: The one that's real.
'I like the other one.'
*****
ME: (presenting a copy of one of my books to a colleague) You should read this; but then I would say that as I wrote it.
*puzzled laughter*
'Yeah, good one. Will...same name.'
ME: (pointing at the cover) That's me. That's my book. That's my name.
'Same name. That could be anyone called Will.'
ME: You think I would present a copy of a book by an author with the same first name as me, and pretend that I'd wrote it?
(looking at me like I'm slightly delusional) 'You might do.'
*****
At a book signing...
"I've written a book. Well, sort of; it's not finished yet.'
ME: Ok
'It's more of an idea really.'
ME: What's it about?
'A sci-fi thing. I've designed the action figures. I just need to finish the book.'
ME: *silence* and mouth wide open incredulity.
'I've sent a copy of the first draft to Oprah Winfrey.'
ME: *more silence, but louder this time*
*****
At a book signing...
'Would you sign this for me, please?'
ME: No problem. Who should I make it out to?
'It's for my husband.'
ME: What's he call...
(interrupting) 'He's at the match, the ****ing arsehole.'
*****
Slightly inebriated exchange with someone who has just been told I'm an author...
'You're not writing about me are you?'
ME: No.
'Why not?'
I just met you about 6 minutes ago.
'Are you gonna write about me?'
ME: No.
'Why not?'
People who ask me if I'm going to write about them usually aren't worth writing about, and when I tell them this they take it personally.
'You should ****ing write about me.'
ME: I probably will but I'll change your name or something so you won't know.
'What to?'
ME: Something bland as **** like Nigel, probably.
'I'm called Nigel.'
I'm definitely going to write about you now.
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Will Nett
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Gonzo-scribbling, Francophile road roamer, cum meta-fiction story collector.
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