Dear Crispin,

here is some news about things i am doing or that happened to me recently.

sorry if they are boring.

i am going to London tomorrow to read a short thing at this 3:AM/beat the dust event.

there was an article/interview thing in MX paper in Australia yesterday, or two days ago, maybe:


a nice person sent me some photos of the German edition of The Bird Room in a bookshop:


i have drank cider maybe three or four times in the last week.

Dear Crispin,

today i got up early and got things done. i felt kind of good and smug and proud of myself. i have not been out in the sun too much as i think i burnt my face yesterday. when i looked at my face in the mirror last night and this morning, it looked a deeper red than normal. i have been worrying, mildy, about skin cancer recently. i have a wobbly mole on my neck at the back, below the hairline. do you ever worry about things like that? do you put on face protection before you go out in the sun? also, i am reading at a thing somewhere in London on friday night. maybe i'll see you there? i don't know. anyway, hope you are having a nice time.

your friend,

Chris

Dear Crispin

i am reading at the thing in Preston tomorrow night (see post below).

i just changed my blog's title and image (see above).

i think my novel is part of some thing in Holland or something.

i did a radio interview for German radio today.

my eyes feel hot and strange.

i lay out in the sun on my stomach for a while on the grass and made notes on something.

i don't know how to turn the radiator off in the room that i'm currently in.

i think this is my blog 'over' maybe.

i don't know.

i feel like i have nothing left to write on it.

i will probably write something on it tomorrow.

oh, yeah, Crispin Best's advert for The Bird Room made it onto World Wide Whiskers and generated 1 sale.

thanks, Crispin.

also, i liked reading Crispin Best's Ninja Turtle fiction a lot.

i noticed Crispin Best on gchat today but was invisible and didn't chat to him because i felt mild panic about not getting notes made on the thing that i then went and made notes on.

i am sure Crispin Best feels fine about me not talking to him on gchat.

Crispin Best is a good guy.

hi Crispin.

i might just do Crispin Best updates on here from now on, or just direct messages to Crispin Best.

tomorrow i might change the title of this blog to 'Dear Crispin'.

i don't know.

16th of April at the launch for Richard Milward's novel Ten Storey Love Song in Middlesbrough

21st of April in Preston with Jenn Ashworth, Steven Hall, Sally Cook and others

24th of April in London at the Beat the Dust/3:AM 'Recession Session' (can't find link)

29th of April in Nottingham before a spoken-word thing from Eugene Robinson (OXBOW)