Diary
March 2004
Well, hello!
Jascha took me out for a surprise night out on Valentines night (earning multiple brownie points in the process) and as we were walking through Baker Street station on our way into town I suddenly saw a huge wall of posters with my name all over them! I was so amazed that I just stood and stared at them for a full five minutes before Jascha managed to drag me away. It really was a remarkable feeling and just added to the whole magic of what was a completely brilliant evening. Any of you who use the tube in London will have been hard-pushed to miss them - aren't they great?!
Penguin threw me a fantastic party last week (have I mentioned lately that they're the best publishers in the world?) at a brilliant pub in Belsize Park called the Hill and if you ever find yourself in NW3 with nowhere to go, pop in and have a drink - you won't want to leave.
Everyone was there,
from my mother-in-law to my agent and the reviews editor of Heat magazine
to the manager of my local bookshop. Also there were all my writery friends,
'the crème de la crème of young British fiction' as I kept
drunkenly telling anyone who would listen. Even Amelie was there for a
short time. At around the time she would normally have been having her
bedtime bottle and being put to bed she was trussed up in her best frock,
put in the back of a black cab and on her way to a party. She wasn't very
impressed and cried from the moment we arrived until the moment the babysitter
came to pick her up an hour later! Still, at least she can say she was
at my first book launch! We drank champagne all night and by the time
I got home at midnight I was plastered. I woke up at around 3am that night
with a pounding in my head and a dryness in my mouth and suddenly realised
I had a hangover - my first since November 2002 when I first discovered
I was pregnant! It was a strangely enjoyable sensation.
As for sales, a Friend of the Family has gone straight into the fiction charts at number ten, which is great, and hopefully it might creep up a couple of places by next week. This is my first paperback in the new look jacket and I'm really curious to know how you lot are receiving it. I've started a poll in the discussion forum and if you've got an opinion, I'd love to hear it.
And for those wanting an Amelie update - she's nearly seven months old now and a complete dumpling of a child. Her eyes are sky blue and her hair is thick and fair and sticks up in a peak like a meringue. She sleeps through the whole night now (yes, a full, uninterrupted twelve hours - how lucky am I?) and is completely mad. She can't crawl yet, so all our audio-visual equipment is still safe, but by the time I next write, she'll be all over the place, so I'm enjoying the relative peace while it lasts!
Book number 5 is still going really well. I'm sticking to my thousand words a day like a good disciplined writer and I'm over 300 pages into it. Whether it's any good or not remains to be seen however!
Here are some pics of my party (including, of course, the 'crème de la crème of young British fiction'!!) and my baby.
Love to you all and I'll write again soon,
Lisa xx
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