Back from hibernation

Lots about to happen this year, the fruits of long months of work since last spring/summer. First up: today sees the publication by Penguin of James Caan's Get The Life You Really Want, which Philip worked on with James. This is part of the Quick Reads campaign designed to encourage people who are not regular bookbuyers to buy more books and to read more. In the book James suggested some ways of changing your mindset and some practical steps for making change happen. A second book by James, Start Your Own Business In 7 Days, is coming out next month. More on that shortly.

Viva Brasil!

Philip has just been featured in a flurry of articles in the Brazilian press to publicise the first-ever Portuguese edition of According To The Rolling Stones, which has just been launched by Cosac Naify, the São Paulo-based publishing house. Thanks to the energies of the company's inhouse press office João Perassolo, Philip and his co-editor on the book, Dora Loewenstein, were interviewed for cover stories in the review sections of both O Globo and Estado De Minas, with more to follow. Brazil hosted the Stones' biggest-ever gig (one of the world's largest gigs ever) when the band played to an estimated million-pus fans on the Copacabana beach in Rio, in February 2006, during their A Bigger Bang tour.

Summer reading ideas

News on the release of a cluster of paperbacks from Philip Dodd's backlist of titles. On 5th May, Orion's Phoenix paperback imprint released an updated edition of Nick Mason's Inside Out with a fresh cover design, the pub date timed to tie in with the publicity surrounding Roger Waters' Wall shows at the 02 Arena (and his very good Desert Island Discs appearance). And then there's a double whammy on 7th July: an updated edition of According To The Rolling Stones, including a new foreword by Philip and Dora Loewenstein, and the paperback of The Last Matchmaker with a new cover design that is fully on-trend with its 1950s nostalgia feel. Perfect for holiday reading lists.