Shameless self-promotion

Given the rather, shall we say, social nature of most of my diary narrative in A Kick up the Balkans, a couple of people have wondered what I was actually doing out there in Bulgaria at that time.

I thought it was obvious. I was teaching. English.

But don't expect lots of blogging on that part of my adventure. Oh no! Why should I give that away for free? People pay good money for that sort of stuff. You can get it all neatly packaged by Cambridge University Press under the title Lessons from Nothing.

Yes, that's my name on the cover. Sometimes I have received incredulous looks when I say that most of the hits for my name on Google refer to me. No, the looks suggest, it's this guy who wrote this book.

Erm, yeah! So work out the underlying logic, would you?

That means that I am officially listed as an author by Amazon. Oh, and because I'm looking for a casual way to name-drop it into a blog entry, an unrelated incident means that I'm also listed in IMDb, along with good pal taikataika, who really should get a blogger account, you know.

So maybe I do have some web presence after all.

Hype over. My only excuse is that it's my blog and, like everyone, my ego needs a little boost from time to time.