Just a quick note: this morning I finished my Sex.com book and have sent it off to the publisher, who will then give it to an editor who no doubt will have some ideas about moving chapters about and tidying and all that, and it will be on the shelves on 3 May.
In case you’re wondering “didn’t you finish the book back in September?” the answer is yes, but for a number of reasons by then there wasn’t enough time to get it done and in front of book stories in time for the planned November launch, so it was set back to May.
This gave a new deadline of this Friday, with I, of course, overrun by three days. So in the meantime, I went back to San Diego/San Francisco/San Jose to interview Kremen, Wagstaffe, Idell, and Cohen in jail. Plus, of course, the case continued to move on with Cohen being arrested, Kremen selling Sex.com, Kremen chasing the money and, most recently, Cohen getting out of jail.
So all that is in there, plus in the book as was, there was too much legal stuff and not enough storytelling. Also, as both Kremen and Wagstaffe kindly pointed out, it needed more of a backdrop. Which of course was the dotcom boom. So with a sense of the early days of the Internet pulled in and other various changes made, the book has now been rejigged and is all the better for it.
Incidentally, the FT in Germany is doing a piece about the case, with my book acting as the glue – at least that is the impression I have. And the San Jose Metro emailed me a few questions for a piece that will appear with the 26 Feb court date in mind. Oh, and a Hungarian book publisher has been in touch about a Hungarian translation.
Why do I get the feeling that I will end up selling myself as an author as being “big in Hungary”?
Anyway, just a quick update.