Why Did The Policeman Cross the Road?
By Stevyn Colgan
Not so much police intelligence as intelligent policing
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
Booky Update
Hello Shedfolk!
I got the latest figures back from Unbound today and there have been no new pledges for a month now so it looks like 103% is a final total. And a damned fine total it is too! I can never really thank you all enough for making this book possible. All I can do is try to justify your faith in me by producing the very best book that I can.
I'm perilously close to finishing the first draft; I set myself a deadline of the end of June to deliver the book to my editor, the splendid Mathew Clayton, himself a damnably fine writer and one of the organisers of the Brighton Literary Festival. I am completely on track to deliver on time. So hurrah for that!
The final chapter headings are:
Introduction: Cop sucker
1: Imperfect pitch
2: If life gives you zebras …
3: The wizard of Waltham Forest
4: The ape that moved a planet
5: Bring on the Shetland ponies
6: No one ever got sent on a linear thinking course
7: Lobsternomics
8: ‘If they go to Barry Manilow it’s excessive force’
9: Re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic
10: Tim Minchin hopes I won’t die
11: The phantom bus stops of Düsseldorf
12: The sensuous adventures of Kiki and Bouba
13: ‘A pig don’t get no heavier the more you weigh it’
Epilogue: To get to the other side
Bibliography and Sources
Intriguing, no? I'm planning to make a few extracts available in the next few weeks but ONLY to subscribers. It seems only fair as you've made the thing happen.
On a slightly different tack, the first proofs are back for Saving Bletchley Park, the Unbound book by Dr Sue Black that I've contributed a fairly large amount of material to. The subscribers' edition is out in the Autumn and Sue and I have already been signed up for our first literary festival appearance together.
Watch this space for more news!
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Comments
definitely intriguing - I think using Barry Manilow is always excessive force.
I'm looking forward to the end result.
Congratulations for being on target!
posted 23rd June 2015
can't wait to get my grubby mits on both books! running low on reading material :D
posted 23rd June 2015