Peter Cox’s Blog

Gossip is the real currency of the publishing business and, for that reason, the prime source of capital for agents.  Why do you think we have so many lunches?  Certainly not for the good of our waistlines!  But herein lies a problem: the agent with a loose tongue comes quickly to be distrusted by all [...]

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Here’s an interesting concept.  An “uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis”. It combines the protection and anonymity of cutting-edge cryptographic technologies with the transparency and simplicity of a wiki interface.  Elected on a “whiter-than-white” platform, Mr. Blair’s dying regime now seems just as sleazy as anything that previous governments have [...]

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DURHAM.N.C. (AP) - That cup of coffee just not getting it done anymore? How about a Buzz Donut or a Buzzed Bagel? That’s what Doctor Robert Bohannon, a Durham, North Carolina, molecular scientist, has come up with. Bohannon says he’s developed a way to add caffeine to baked goods, without the bitter taste of caffeine. [...]

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Very pleased to announce a new book deal for my client Martin Bell OBE to write THE TRUTH THAT STICKS:NEW LABOUR’S BREACH OF TRUST. This will become the definitive epitaph for the wasted years and broken promises that has come to symbolize Tony Blair’s legacy: Martin is no shrill polemicist, and his judgement is [...]

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First impression: wow! Second impression; isn’t there something slightly, um, OCD about keeping lists like this? I mean, what else does he keep lists about? Third impression: I consider myself well-read, but if Art and I ever got together for a cosy literary chat in some congenial watering-hole, the conversation would probably [...]

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Very sad news about Harry Horse and his wife, Mandy. Reading the obituary, I was struck by the means of his discovery:
“The manuscript of The Last Polar Bears arrived at Puffin Books in a beautifully manufactured parchment parcel knotted with string and covered in hand-drawn postage stamps. It looked as if it had [...]

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Damn right!  It’s time this business got more respect… What’s next… tagging for late fines?  Over to you, dear readers…
Library Guard Shoots Reader

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Years ago, before I became an agent and when I was still writing books and living in Hampstead, I remember after one particularly frustrating and unproductive day going up to Whitestone Pond to peer through the telescope up there. After a few minutes of the glories of Saturn’s rings, I’d quite forgotten my own [...]

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Never liked the stuff, anyway, but this just confirms I’m right to stick to Gibsons.
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Here’s wishing you a very happy, healthy and successful new year: I can’t do better than to quote from a SMS I’ve just received…
“Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.”

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