
Friday 3rd July 2009
I don't know if any of you are either in Cyprus right now, or on your way there, and expecting to see me at the Celebrity Hotel gig on Saturday; if this is the case, I'm sorry, but I won't be there. Sorry about that. Long and complicated reasons-why-not which I won't bore you with right now.
Meanwhile my involvement with the Latitude festival in a couple of weeks has just gone up a notch or two; I had been intending to go and record The Now Show on the Thursday and then come home, but I'm now staying for the weekend. I'll be turning up in Marcus's Early Edition thing Friday and Sunday lunchtimes, and also doing some sort of filming for the BBC during Friday daytime. Think we may need crowd/supporting players for this so if you're about, keep an eye out for me.
As you may have noticed on the news page, The Atheists' Guide To Christmas is now available to pre-order from Amazon. It's a collection of essays and articles by 42 non-religious authors on the subject of Christmas, and includes contributions from the likes of Dawkins, Charlie Brooker, Ben Goldacre, Richard Herring and, oddly enough, me. All proceeds to the Terrence Higgins Trust.
My non-appearance in Cyprus has sort of freed me up a bit for the weekend; this is good, as while I've finished my contributions to both the aforementioned Atheist Christmas book and also The Now Show Book (more details as & when) I'm also co-writing a book with Jon Holmes which I'll announce properly with a bit of fanfare next week, I think...