Acme Ideas

A quite intense week as I was home alone in charge of two surly children (lots of whisky was drunk and I only told them I hated them once - yay me!). Also the last weeknotes for a while since this time next week I will be here.

But that is not to say that the week just gone has been uneventful. The news of my departure from Penguin after 13 top years has spread internally and externally and the list of stuff I have to take care of before I move is developing scarily. There will be a post about Penguin, publishing and 'the change' nearer the hour of departure. I'm still getting my head round the fact that in a few weeks I'll be doing a different job in a different office in a whole different industry.

I'm hoping to leave Penguin and publishing by delivering something audacious and have been working hard with some smart and nice folk to ensure that it will get done in time. Not sure that I will have succeeded in reinventing the book before I head off for Ad-land, but hopefully over the last few years I'll have left behind some work that in the words of a literary agent I pitched to this week, is remembered as being 'a bit mad and a bit clever'. That's good enough, no?