Send off the artwork for my postcards – I have decided to order 1000 – somewhat ambitious but the price differential between 500 and 1000 is minimal. I also redo the text for the book’s cover which, although it’s going to be a paperback, is going to have flaps. I continue to proof-read ….
Spend day proof-reading and checking some of my sloppier references. Why can’t I be more organised when I’m doing research? Although what I have discovered is that you can put whole chunks of text into Google and it will come up with the right reference within seconds. Magic.
Only a small amount of time on proof-reading the book today – but I have now got an image (the book cover) for postcards. Maybe tomorrow will be more constructive.
Completely different kind of day from yesterday; no one rings and no one comes round. I spend it correcting proofs and trying to sort out the footnotes some of which I seem to have got wrong by one number which of course makes all of them wrong. Ring the wholesalers Bertrams and Gardners to tell … Read more
I’ve already thought of the subjects for my YouTube videos – but I start to think about the actual content. Rupert, who’s making them for me, has suggested that it will be best to make about 6 short films. I think the idea is to put them up over a period of weeks. Help I’ve … Read more
The proofs have arrived from Antony, the designer. I print them out – 260 pages. So this is what the book will look like. I can’t believe its already got to this stage. I started thinking about this book about 12 years ago and suddenly its all coming together. A panicky moment when I think … Read more
I get a bus to the West End to meet Steph who is going to advise me about publicity. After two hours of drinking coffee – my head is reeling with ideas. As I work on my own its incredibly nice to have someone else to bounce ideas off and between us we come up … Read more
Inside Notting Hill Rachman, Profumo, Bob Marley, Malcolm X… oh, and Hugh Grant. They’ve all left their mark on London’s Trustafarian suburb says the author of a guide. I’d been nagged for years to do an update of Inside Notting Hill – a book I’d first published under the imprint Portobello Publishing in 2001. The … Read more
Written by Sarah Anderson and publishing in the Independent on 23/10/2006 With the publication in 1958 and success of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, Eric Newby created a new and lively genre of British post-war travel writing. Before attempting to conquer the Hindu Kush, Newby had been working for the fashion house Worth-Paquin; … Read more
by Sarah Anderson, published in the Independent, July 2003 There are few writers who produce elegant, witty and perfectly-pitched prose and yet remain unknown outside a small but devoted band of admirers. Norman Lewis was one. Lewis loved the craft of writing and wrote about 700 words in cramped longhand every day; words which were … Read more