it s been so long. can ijust say i m standing here feeling kind ofjealous? why? well, look. and we didn t even put it there. it wasn t even staged. no? no. well, i mean, it s selling very well, so why not? and the cover looks good. i think the cover kind of pops. i m wondering if you get a bit. you know, i ve had it one or two times, books in windows, but you must get it all the time. so, the thing that makes my socks go up and down is not seeing the book in the book store window, but it s walking down the aisle of an aeroplane and seeing people read the book. when you see people reading it. i ve sat next to somebody once who was reading my book and i didn t say anything. so, i had exactly that experience. after liar s poker came out, i was. it was a version of this i sat down to reread my book because i was coming back for the paperback book tour from england and the guy next to me goes. he looks at the book and he says, i read that book. and i said, oh. and before i c
well, look who it is. what a surprise! as if! i can t believe i found you here! it s been so long. can ijust say, i m standing here feeling kind ofjealous? why? well, look! and we didn t even put it there! it wasn t even staged. no? no. well, i mean, it s selling very well, so why not? and the cover looks good. i think the cover kind of pops. i m wondering if you get a bit. you know, i ve had it one or two times, books in windows, but you must get it all the time. so, the thing that makes my socks go up and down is not seeing the book in the book store window, but it s walking down the aisle of an aeroplane and seeing people read the book. when you see people reading it. i ve sat next to somebody once who was reading my book and i didn t say anything. so, i had exactly that experience. after liar s poker came out, i was. it was a version of this i sat down to reread my book because i was coming back for the paperback book tour from england and the guy next to me goes. he lo
from england and the guy next to me goes. he looks at the book and he says, i read that book. and i said, oh. and before i could stop him, he says, cynical both laugh we spent. it was a seven hour flight. seven hours, and he s playing 20 questions, trying to figure out who i was, and he was getting closer and closer and closer. and it was just horrendous! did you manage. by the time you landed, he didn t figure it out? no, he hadn t figured it out. shall we go on in? i mean, i used to live in washington, so. i know. it s lovely. this is my favourite book shop in dc. well, i can see why. so, this is interesting because your books were all over the store. you got to just make sure people don t miss that one. it is the author s instinct, isn t it? it is. actually, it s. .. but it s put in the right position. put it over someone else s. yes. katty laughs i shouldn t do that. here. no, i think it shows up enough. you write about such an eclectic group of subjects, but you wr
it was a version of this i sat down to reread my book because i was coming back for the paperback book tour from england and the guy next to me goes. he looks at the book and he says, i read that book. and i said, oh. and before i could stop him, he says, cynical both laugh we spent. it was a seven hour flight. seven hours, and he s playing 20 questions, trying to figure out who i was, and he was getting closer and closer and closer. and it was just horrendous! did you manage to make the whole flight? by the time you landed, he didn t figure it out? no, he hadn t figured it out. shall we go on in? i mean, i used to live in washington, so. i know. it s lovely. this is my favourite book shop in dc. well, i can see why. so, this is interesting because your books were all over the store. you got to just make sure people don t miss that one. it is the author s instinct, isn t it? it is. actually, it s. .. but it s put in the right position. put it over someone else s. yes.
you re known for is choosing these subjects that are quite dense, quite nerdy, don t sound on paper. if i was giving, getting the elevator pitch. right. ..i wouldn t think, oh, yeah, that s a blockbuster subject that everybody s going to want to read about. then you turn them into movies that brad pitt wants to be in. so, it s funny you say that, because i have found. it s almost a reliable indicator that i ve found my next subject. if i m at a dinner party and someone says, what are you working on? and i say it, and the eyes glaze over and there s no follow up question and it s like. you can see them thinking, god, ifeel so sorry for this bleep. he s got to write this book about that. and what has happened is i ve gotten particularly interested in something, and seen something that s interesting about it, that isn t obvious to the world in some way. and so, it actually is. that ends up being a good thing in the end. it s sort of like. it s a little bump. do you really want to