*****
Read what the Independent on Sunday says:
"How to Write a How to Write Book, by Brian Piddock
(Rated 5/ 5 )
Reviewed by Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski
Sunday, 6 April 2008
'The thing about Mr Piddock, whoever he is, is that he can certainly write.'"
The fascinating new book by Brian Piddock®*, the country’s leading How to Write Writer. Click on the book and buy it here at only £6.99 including post and packing!
Or go to AMAZON, or order in any good bookshop - ISBN
978-0-9555557-0-1
My book of the year, of the decade.
I laughed. I cried. I was gripped as Piddock's fantastic story unfolded. Read this book. Buy it for your friends.
They'll love you for it.
Payne Braddock (Book Monthly)
You won't stop turning the pages. Not only the best writer's manual I've ever read, but Piddock's stories of past girlfriends, present friends, and his tragic marriage are riveting. A masterpiece.
Bernard Pollack (The Review Review)
Already a classic! A book that will stay with me. The story of his rivalry with a fellow How To Write writer, which led to a major miscarriage of British 'justice', still haunts me. Surely the best book ever written. Everyone else, stop writing now. There's no point. Brian's said it all.
Paddy Brinnock (Association of British How To Write Writers)
Rather good. I liked it. It amused me. At times. Yes, not bad. By the way, your round, I think, Brian.
Jack Hinstock (Journalist, The Black Horse)
You may have heard of this. It’s the Bookseller magazine’s annual prize, and frankly it’s an insult.
I know writers are meant to find any publicity useful. However, I must say how deeply affronted I am that my brilliant and carefully wrought work has been reduced to the ‘Oddest Book Title of the Year’.
My book is not odd. It is perfectly sensible. It is the most sensible writers’ manual ever published. A writer can make a fortune easily just by reading my book and following its precise instructions to the exact letter. In fact it is entirely and utterly lacking in oddness.
I would like to thank everyone for the great campaign they put together to try and get the verdict changed. Well done, Jack and Dan and Frank and Sam.
Though I would like to state here quite categorically that I did not approve of the disfigurement of Meadow Park Cricket pitch. That, I had nothing to do with.
And by the way, there’s two Ds in Piddock. And what a shame they ran out of weedkiller before they could finish everything, as “BRIAN PIDOCK IS INNOC” doesn’t quite have the right ring, somehow. But thanks anyway, chaps.
Of course, it shouldn’t be my mates from down the Black Horse doing their best to get me out of prison, it should be Liberty or Amnesty International.
Or the European Court of Human Rights, if I’d not been denied legal aid by this bent and bigoted government we have, keener as it is on spending billions fighting wars in foreign lands than standing up for the civil rights of its citizens.
I must say I’m getting rather fed up with people down the pub continually asking me why I’m standing for Mayor of London. And sometimes I suspect they’re being facetious.
Paddick, he is, I have to tell them. Not Piddock. Piddock is the proper, Old English, way to spell the name.
Mind you, it’s not a bad idea. Because I’d sort out London if I was Mayor. Congestion charge? Nonsense. I’d just ban all motorised vehicles from Greater London. Including taxis and buses. No. Especially taxis and buses. And tube trains. And bicycles. Let everyone walk!
Mind you, the Mayor would have to have a vehicle, wouldn’t he? A horse drawn carriage. That would do me.
No, I’d soon sort them out.
Brian Piddock is privileged and grateful to be published by Neil Rhodes Books
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* Yes, I've copyrighted, patented, and registered the name 'Brian Piddock'†. So if you too happen to be called Brian Piddock - tough luck. You'll have to change it. It's mine. Call yourself John Smith.
† I think. How do you do that, anyway? All right, not copyrighted, or patented, or registered. But I would if I knew how.