Debut Novel Pillows

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

"Just be yourself."

"This is my new country song I wrote about my self-driving truck leaving me..."

First Novels.

"Welcome to Off-Off-Off Broadway."

Silly wig.

"Toi Toi Toi!"

Madame Rejane- Famous French Actress in the Part of Madame Sans Gene

BOOKSHOP, 'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit today, sir -- a ream of paper and a dozen pencils.'

"My God!! - Those actors must all be really old by now...!"

"Maybe I don't like stunning debuts."

"Eventually the instrument becomes an extension of your body."

'Is this your first book launch?'

"Tom's writing has been going really well! He's written over 200,000 words. Now he just needs to work out what order to put them in!"

Sumo Love.

Snail Man

"Sorry, I meant to say "good luck", not "break a leg"..."

'Be gentle with me, it's my first novel.'

'Yes, I'm very excited. I really think that I will make my mark as a surrealist miniaturist.'

"This is my first book, but if I like it I may buy another in the near future."

"I wrote, self-published and remaindered it myself."

"January 11. Still struggling with the novel. Chopped more firewood."

'As is the fashion these days, it's about nothing.'

"I just got a huge advance for my first novel. It's about a writer who gets a huge advance for his first novel."

Hope you're still writing that novel!

"As your first novel, it starts out badly and just falls away!"

"My first novel is a prequel of a sequel, it's about time travel."

'Larry, did you feel THAT? Your career just peaked! And on MY show! Isn't that fantastic?'

Getting Published

"It's about keeping the bunny alive within each of us."

"This manuscript is unbelievably mature for a first novel but, sadly, we don't publish the unbelievable."

Grand Piano

Red Letter Days - A First Night

BOOKSHOP, 'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit today, sir -- a ream of paper and a dozen pencils.'