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This wasn't done for 4/6, but it's a very beautiful piece of work by Colenso BBDO, Auckland, for the New Zealand Book Council.

That said, it shows just how good TV has to be to match the power of the written word...

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Savage Night

The latest "hard-boiled" Noir opus from the award-winning Allan Guthrie, literary phenomenon and all round good guy. He's just got a very sick imagination.

Savage Night is the fourth of his stylishly updated Jacobean gore-fests and it features a hit man who can't stand the sight of blood, kidnapping, corpse mutilation, and a family feud that makes the Montagus and Capulets look like pussies.

Thanks to uncle Mike Coulter, I was lucky to meet the very talented photographer and writer Darcie Condie at the Centotre Coffee Morning the Friday before the shoot and she came out and blogged the shoot for us, creating the biggest Flickr Set I've ever seen!

Thanks also to Jan, Amy and Sarah of Birlinn for all their help on the day. If they could afford the drop in income, they'd have a great future in Production...

Mrs Mills swans into Times Online

This should help ease the book into a few more Christmas stockings...

Mrs Mills Solves All Your Problems

Wicked animated trailer for the new book from cult Sunday Times Columnist, Mrs Mills and available from Mainstream Publishing. The perfect stocking filler for girls who wear 10 denier with their Louboutins. The killer illustrations are by Gavin Reece and the animation was created by my man Chossy

Poetry clip scores on Amazon

I was very pleased to receive an email the other day from Laurence Howell, a 'lead account manager' at Amazon's UK operation, telling me that while they only upload promo clips for 'key titles', they'd decided to make an exception for Alistair Findlay's '100 Favourite Scottish Football Poems'.

What can I say? I'm over the moon, David...

Fitba Cliche

Gavin MacDougall of Luath Press liked my promo for The Well-Tempered Clavier and suggested that we might do something for Poet and former Hibs mid-fielder Alistair Findlay whose new book 100 Favourite Scottish Football Poems is due to hit the shelves in mid-November, so my old mate Chris Muir and I hit the road to Hampden early on the day that Scotland beat the Ukraine 2-0 and spent the day persuading fans to read bits of different poems.

The Tartan Army rose superbly to the challenge, and I just hope we can do it all again when Scotland beat Italy...

Scottish Football Poetry

Luath Press are about to publish a new book called 100 Favourite Scottish Football Poems edited by former Hibs mid-fielder and poet Alistair Findlay.

There's some excellent poems in there, but I particularly liked the one that opens the collection, "Scotch Soccer", by Alexander Scott, which also opens this clip.

Well-Tempered Clavier - the promo

The Well-Tempered Clavier

I'm conducting a little experiment with William Coles, who's just about to publish his first novel, The Well-Tempered Clavier. Our hero Kim is a man in his 40's who's looking back on his tempestuous teenage affair with India, his 23 year old music teacher - it's a sort of "Pianos of Madison County', and if all goes well, it could just be the book that gets his writing career well and truly off and running.

I shot a short promo for him last week which we'll finish up on Wednesday and post to YouTube (of course) and to his as yet un-named blog. The Coffee Morning Boys have already come up with a whole bunch of ways to get the book talked about on Facebook and elsewhere but I'd be interested to hear what you think how we can get him into the eye of the public...