Guido and I have been busy little beavers tonight, putting the finishing touches to the Little Red Book of New Labour Sleaze. We now have 84 of the 100 entries in our greasy little mitts. The rest will be finished off in the morning, when the typesetter (who is a Labour Party supporter!) will get to work on designing the book. So the timetable looks like this:
MONDAY/TUESDAY typesetting
WEDNESDAY Proofing/Indexing
THURSDAY Typesetter final corrections
FRIDAY To the printer
There will be 15 or so cartoons in the book, drawn by Hoby (who's the son of a senior MP). There will also be a new website at www.newlaboursleaze.com. It's not up yet and is currently being designed, so you'll have to be patient for that. Any ideas of what we might put on it gratefully received. Tomorrow I've got to persuade WH Smith, Ottakers and Waterstone's that they should stock copies of the book in each otheir stores. If you'd like to pre-order a copy of the book click HERE.
One other thing you could all do for me is to persuade your local bookshop to stock the book. We've not time to sell it into all shops ourselves, so to make this work it must be marketed by the blogging community. I have a full colour sales sheet, which I can email to you upon request.
We got mentions today in several newspapers including the Atticus Column of the Sunday Times. So it's all looking good! My only dilemma now is that I have two print quotes - one to print within 4 dayas and another to print within 2 weeks. The first is almost double the price of the second. I think I'll sleep on it...
