A Little Help from Friends

I’ve just been read­ing very kind words by writer Ken MacLeod on Déjà Vu:

I wasn’t the only reviewer who thought the book, and the writer, deserved a lot bet­ter. Ian’s efforts to become a prop­erly pub­lished writer were ser­i­ous, unavail­ing, and in the end heart­break­ing. He had another life than being a writer, and reckoned it was time he got on with it.

It was a day in the Christmas hol­i­day imme­di­ately fol­low­ing pub­lic­a­tion of the book that I got Ken’s email telling me how much he liked it (together with some busi­ness advice). That was the moment I breathed a sigh of relief. If Ken liked it, there was good chance it wasn’t rub­bish. Grand days.

Random Feedback

Reader, it has been a long day. I spent the early part of this morn­ing prep­ping for two hours of sem­inars on mul­tiple regres­sion (if you don’t know what this is, you don’t want to; if you do know what this, you prob­ably still don’t want to), and this after­noon was whittled away prep­ping for four hours of sem­inars start­ing at 9 a.m. tomor­row morning.

In sum­mary, I’m often grumpy on Tuesday afternoons.

And then I received this email:

I just wanted to say thank you for releas­ing your book as an audio book — I’ve thor­oughly enjoyed listen­ing to it!

Hope you release another one soon!

This is, of course, lovely.

Déjà Vu (the first edi­tion) is avail­able as an audiobook here. (Though the improved spe­cial edi­tion is here.)