Collecting Crime Fiction Books
Collecting Crime Fiction Books
Don’t change the channel regular readers, I know how unpopular posts and book dealing and books are so I’ll not burden you.
There is an article in the magazine Book and Magazine Collector this month though and it it is about collecting ultra-modern mystery fiction books.
“What’s that got to do with you or us” chant the less patient readers.
Well, I was interviewed for it, I think being interviewed therefore qualifies me as a celebrity nowadays !
Hang on while I check the paparazzi are not outside … it’s OK just the guy who wants to feature me in Heat magazine, but he’s been there all day.
Rest assured it will not go to my head and I will not go off the rails. I hope also there will be no string of lurid kiss and tell stories hitting the tabloids 
On a more serious note, it was a strange feeling to look at mention of me and my own words in the magazine. I remember spending hours pouring over, reading articles and learning all sorts - how times change !
The article was written by Jonathan Scott and he asked if he could interview me as part of it.
I was slightly concerned that when edited etc would my answers appear in the context they were meant, you know the usual thing we celebrities worry about, being misquoted etc
So there you go, those who said I’d never amount to anything “whadya say now !”
I would also like to point out to regular readers, indeed readers all, people have to pay £3.50 to read my pearls of wisdom in B&MC and you get them, and so much more, for nada, zilch absolutely nothing - how lucky you are
On a side note I was slightly disappointed that they didn’t commission a GQ style photo shoot featuring 2 red hot scantily clad women and myself as an accompanying illustration to the article ! Possibly this will happen when FHM magazine interview me on how exactly to determine the the finer issue points of Early Hodder and Stoughton crime fiction titles - I’m sure the article is in the pipe line and I’ll soon, once again, be in ‘legitimate print’.
Now I must dash, I have a celebrity party to attend and the press photographer should be there, my agent has teamed me up with a girl who cleaned the toilets after Celebrity Big Brother finished last year - he says the joint publicity will help both our careers.
All the best
R.D. Collins, Esq.
Little Brother said,
January 15, 2009 @ 11:01 pm
Rod,
Congratulations, glad to see it hasn’t gone to your head! Good work fella, look forward to seeing you on Newsnight with Jeremy Paxman
LB
Witches of Eastwick said,
January 16, 2009 @ 1:07 pm
Rod,
Let us know if you’re ever photographed as the centerfold …. that we could pin up a work, after all it wouldn’t be the done thing to hang your own picture up in Goldeneye HQ, not when you’ve taken all the girlie posters down
Before you ask, we haven’t got room for any more cardboard cutouts so we’ll have to pass on that but there’s sure to be thousands of requests 
WoE ~ getting rid of all the old Pitt/Clooney/Firth and Craig posters to make way
Rod said,
January 16, 2009 @ 1:35 pm
WoE
unfortuntaely I’ve just missed the window of opportunity in the Calendar market !
At least it’s saved me the indignity of seeing my calendar dumped in the February sales bins at 50p each
Best
Rod
Witches of Eastwick said,
January 17, 2009 @ 12:03 pm
Rod,
We know what you mean…. one of our fellow witches always buys us a spectacular calendar for Christmas but this year changed course. So off we went to investigate the world of calendars, steering well clear of the left over footballers and pop stars, we headed for an upmarket book shop where the choice was very limited but we managed to get the last Geisha half price.
By mid summer you could give your readers the choice to purchase an exclusive calendar featuring your good self….. LB can do the moody photos and we’ll all get together to design the finished article. Price then…. a fee to cover costs and make a small profit. Bet you get thousands of pre-orders! If there are any quibbles about lack of sparkle, tell them to expect a glittering extravaganza for December’s ‘Rod festooned in Christmas fairy lights’
WoE