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Reflections on the launch

17/5/2012

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It's been a couple of weeks since the soft, local launch of the book at Waterstones Hampstead.

The intervening fortnight has been a little surreal.  Those attending have been uniformly complimentary.  The event was really well organised and my speech seemed to go down ok,  There's an extract on YouTube and here's the text.  The glow has been longer-lasting than I ever could have imagined.

Now the hard work begins.  Grosse Fugue was never going to be a supersonic best-seller.  It will rely on word-of-mouth and good reviews.  A debut novelist and a little-known publisher make getting reviews a real challenge.  My belief in the book resides as much in its ability to haunt readers and make them want to talk about it as it does in the way it's written and narrative strength.

I hope that as many people as possible evangelise it to their friends and family and, with luck, post reviews on Amazon.  Here are the ones already up.
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The imminence of 'Grosse Fugue'

19/4/2012

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So this is the week that 'Grosse Fugue' finally emerges as the butterfly I so want it to be.

My hopes?  Obviously that it sells shed loads.  But, more than that, I want its ideas to take wing.  And I want people unfamiliar with the music which pulses through its pages to  go on their own voyage of discovery, to sail the highways and byways of the great composers and find, as I have done, inexhaustible pleasure, comfort, inspiration and joy.

I hope that readers will come to this site and share their views, be they hostile or supportive, indignant or provocative.

Above all, I hope that this is the start of a long and stimulating journey.
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