www.crispinbest.com

thank you to people who linked/twittered/facebooked/etc. my 'choose your own adventure' game (see previous post). i feel like i should have spent more time on it now, made it a lot longer and more detailed and things. i don't know. i might still do this at some point.

Socrates told me about this other similar and better and more funny game.

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turns out you can now see the new cover of The Bird Room (B-Format paperback, Jan 2010, £7.99) on the Canongate site. it looks very different to the trade paperback one. i imagine the 'marketing brief' was something like 'young and fresh and sexy and not just about a man looking at the internet and wanking'.

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i am looking forward to SHOPLIFTING FROM AMERICAN APPAREL. i keep thinking about it.

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i am writing a new long thing. so far it has someone playing World of Warcraft in it.

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i feel like there was some other reason why i started writing this post, that there was something else i was going to link to.

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oh, that's right, it's more self-promotion:

there is now a page for the Harper Perrenial US 2010 edition of The Bird Room, too. not sure if there will be a new cover design. at the moment it is just a picture of the UK trade one. they have used the advert Crispin Best made in the 'videos' section. the listed print run makes me feel simultaneously excited and terrified.