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Monday January 14th – Self-publishing blog diary

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 just heard – instead of coming tomorrow – Rupert is coming to film today. Maybe that’s a good thing – not so much time to get nervous or to agonise over what to wear. He arrived just before 1pm and we spent 3 hours making 5 films on different topics – all associated with the book. It goes well and there were relatively few re-takes – the odd police siren didn’t help – but on the whole the street outside was fairly quiet. The Daily Telegraph rang wanting to see a set of proofs and sent a bike round to collect them. By the end of the day I feel an adrenalin rush – especially since 3 friends – none of whom I’d seen for ages got in touch – 2 actually coming round. I’m not sure I can get through a year at this pace …