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- A group for my book - 'Me and Mickie James' published July 17th 2008 by Jonathan Cape, Random House.
Down By Law are a pop group like no other. For a start Mickie James has a hunchback, but that doesn’t matter, he is the talented one. From their base in a disused room at the top of St Pancras station they plan to take the music industry by storm. Only first they need gigs, a record deal, a flushable toilet.
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Officers
- Will
- Leigh
- Roadie and Chief Grip
- Gary
- Promoter
- Ben
- Lighting
- Lisa
- Catering
- Angela
- Clothing
- Nick
- Tank supplier (if needed)
- Stacey
- First Aid
- Nick
- Logistics (especially trains)
- Rachel
- Publicist
- Justin
- Second Publicist - for when the first has had a few too many
- Eric
- Assistant to porn producer - Ivan Norris-Ayres
- Mark
- Fan club manager
- Aliya
- Glamorous assistant
- Damien
- Propaganda
- Kate
- The Welsh Connection
- Mike
- Spiritual advice
- Andy
- Groupie
- Andrew
- Lime merchant
Events
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- Teeth
Radio 4
Tuesday, August 26 at 3:30pm - Me and Mickie James Launch Party
Waterstones
Tuesday, July 22 at 6:00pm
Me and Mickie James
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- A group for my book - 'Me and Mickie James' published July 17th 2008 by Jonathan Cape, Random House.
Down By Law are a pop group like no other. For a start Mickie James has a hunchback, but that doesn’t matter, he is the talented one. From their base in a disused room at the top of St Pancras station they plan to take the music industry by storm. Only first they need gigs, a record deal, a flushable toilet.
When they meet the pink-hatted impresario Ivan Norris-Ayres in the local cheese shop... (read more) - Privacy Type:
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- 22nd June
Reading at Pride Words, Foyles London - part of London Pride Festival - details here - http://www.pridelondon.org/fest_lierature.php
18th March
Reading at Polari Boyz Night with Adam Mars Jones - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=56377851057&ref=ts
March 09
Featured writer on the Literature Network
http://literaturenetwork.org/?p=478
August 2nd 08
THE GUARDIAN
"Oddly affecting... manages to avoid both cliché and sentimentality... the reader willingly surrenders to the mad tour."
July 30th 08 - some more reviews
GAYDARNATION
“Gummerson has written a gem of a novel.”
PULP.NET
“Constantly slap-stick silly... it may tell you a thing or two about the fun of being off beat.”
BOOK MARKS
“Gummerson anchors this charmingly quirky novel with exuberant storytelling and effervescent dialogue.”
July 11th 08
It's out - well at least able to buy from Amazon! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Me-Mickie-James-Drew-Gummerson/dp/0224082442/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215814762&sr=8-7
July 2nd 08
Some reviews starting to come out...
DAZED AND CONFUSED
“Gummerson hits upon an awkward ingenious prose style that makes biting comedy out of both the surreal and the mundane.”
3SIXTY
“Me and Mickie James is guaranteed to put a smile on the most miserable of faces.”
AESTHETICA
“Everyone needs a light-hearted book sometimes and Me and Mickie James does the trick.”
GT
“Gummerson’s dry humour will have you chuckling from page one to the end.”
CHROMA
“Won’t be forgotten in a hurry.”
June 28th 08
I'll be reading from M&MJ at the Lowdham Book Festival - http://www.lowdhambookfestival.co.uk
June 12th 08
Me + Me and Mickie James are featured in Dazed and Confused magazine.
May 19th 08
I receive finished book. Yeah!!!
May 14th 08
Finished copies are at the publisher!
April 29th 08
Me and Mickie James launch party to be July 22nd in Waterstones, Market St, Leicester with drinks after at The Basement. Click on event to right!
April 10th 08
Review copy of Me and Mickie James arrives!
April 7th 08
Cover now up on Amazon and available to pre-order at £7.91 (34% off).
March 14th 08
Preview copies ready and being sent out.
March 12th 08
Me and Mickie James available to pre-order from Random House website - http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224082442
Jan 17th 08
Cover for Me and Mickie James completed! It's very different!
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Nov 20th 07
M&MJ sent to a film agent.
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November 5th - Proofs sent back to publisher
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October 15th 07 - Proofs are ready.
Me and Mickie James available for pre-order on Amazon - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Me-Mickie-James-Drew-Gummerson/dp/0224082442/ref=sr_1_2/203-0026175-4863924?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192482820&sr=1-2
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As of September 2007 the 1st edit has been completed and it has also been to the copyeditor. The manuscript is now off to production.
The fabulous Shout - http://www.printmag.com/Default.aspx?tabid=209 is doing the cover. I can't wait to see that.
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Coming from Jonathan Cape July 3rd 2008
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From Publishing News: http://www.publishingnews.co.uk/pn/pno-news-display.asp?K=e2007053111335677&TAG=&CID=&PGE=&sg9t=...
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Me and Mickie James: The Beginning...
‘Me and Mickie James’ started around 2004.
I was writing different stories about body parts - a man with one leg, feet, bum, willie and so on - and ‘Bodily Parts’, the first M&MJ story, was one of these. A hunchback and his friend move down to London together, they are in a pop group called ‘Down By Law’, they want to be famous.
So that was the start.
Christmas came and I thought about writing a Christmas story. At the end of ‘Bodily Parts’, Down By Law, the group, had split up. I wanted to write about them again and the story ‘Christmas Comeback’, or ‘Hunchback Christmas’ evolved.
I still wasn’t really thinking about M&MJ becoming a novel but over the next couple of years I wrote more stories, some about the group but more often not. I wrote a few stories about the Iraq war. ‘Bob and Dwayne: Astronauts’ was one of these and then somehow Down By Law get sent out to entertain the troops in ‘Wacky Iraqi’.
So I found that two years down the track I had seven stories about the group. Seventy thousand words. The last three stories had been almost sequential. I was beginning to realise that somehow I had written a novel although I never intended to.