So, this whole book thing

Posted on | March 22, 2007 | 71 Comments

As Sinead revealed last night I have signed a two book deal with Hodder Headline Ireland.

That means I’ll write two books and they will publish them and you, if you so choose, can buy them and read them. It’s revolutionary in its groundbreakingosity.

What is the first book about? Well, plot details are vague at this moment in time but it will contain many words put together in sequence to form sentences and paragraphs which will combine to tell a story in chronological order (although I’m not ruling out flashbacks). The press release says:

His two-book deal will see a major expansion in the escapades of Twenty and his pals Jimmy the Bollix, Stinking Pete, Ron the Barman, Splodge, Lucky Luciano and Dirty Dave, as they wind their way around Dublin’s backstreets as they try to find out who killed their friend Jim of Vinyl Records. Music, films, television and books will all be parodied and nothing is sacred in this irreverent look at modern Dublin.

I can assure you that some of the action will take place on Dublin’s main streets too, such as Nassau Street, Westmoreland Street, Parnell Street and Capel Street*

So there you go. That’s what’s happening. It should all be a right good laugh and the great thing is that – unless TV, books and movies have been lying to me all along – real writers are allowed drink as much as they want whenever they want.

Mmmmm, for breakfast I can have cornflakes with vodka instead of milk and I can gargle with creme de menthe instead of Listerine. This is going to be awesome.

Sadly this is not going to be the cover – with thanks to Gerry.

* I reserve the right to use different streets and perhaps even a road or avenue or two.

Update: I should point out that the book, although it features characters from the blog and may reference one or two favourite themes, will not be rehashing old blog stories and the blog itself will continue as normal.

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71 Responses to “So, this whole book thing”

  1. Bertie Ahern
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 4:20 pm

    that is the best book cover Ive seen. Good luck twenty – I will buy a copy to burn – so you get the royalties and I get the heat.

    When’s it out?

  2. Withnail
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 4:22 pm

    Well done, you auld bollix…….

  3. Ldbug
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 4:24 pm

    vodka in your cereal? see, I knew there was a damn good reason why I should’ve been a writer….

    congrats on the book deal!

  4. Grandad
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 4:25 pm

    Fair play to ya son. I always knew there was talent there somewhere, if ya looked reeeely hard.

    Put me down for a copy of the reviews.

  5. Chung-Li
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 4:31 pm

    Congratulations Twenty! Can all your devoted fans get signed copies please?

  6. Sid Trotter
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 4:33 pm

    Yes, a mighty welldone to yer – hope it’s good – and that there’s plenty of cunts in it – will I get it from the library (top shelf)?

  7. fatmammycat
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 4:34 pm

    We love you Twennny, here sign yer super mega famous name cross me tits, wouldja?

  8. Damien Rice
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 4:35 pm

    I’m already looking forward to the film!

  9. Fred Freegan
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 4:38 pm

    I’m already looking forward to the film!

  10. The Swearing Lady
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 4:51 pm

    Sounds like the Fureys on acid.

    Which they probably were.

  11. John Mc
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 4:55 pm

    Congrats!

  12. enidd
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 4:58 pm

    well done! please can the pages have those convenient perforations like andrex?

  13. Dale de Moin Marn
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 5:04 pm

    Well Well who’d have thought. Me for one I suppose and hundreds of others. You can’t carry on writing a blog like this and not get noticed/rewarded. I know you got the blog awards but a two book deal is something else. Well done.

  14. roryjohn
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 5:07 pm

    Way to go Twenty.

  15. irishflirtysomething
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 5:29 pm

    A few questions.
    Are you going to continue working?
    What did they pay you?
    Can you retire?
    Have you already completed the book or starting from scratch?
    When do you expect it to be released?
    How swamped by bloggers do you expect Hodder to be?

  16. tawdreyaudrey
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 5:48 pm

    Isn’t that wonderful. Really. A great tale. An inspiration to all that have pipe dreams. Congratulations. I look forward to this.My God, I think that’s great.

  17. Twenty Major
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 6:02 pm

    Cheers everyone.

    Flirty – that’s way too many questions.

  18. irishflirtysomething
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 6:14 pm

    Just answer one a day for the next week and you can have the 7th day off.

  19. Macdara
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 6:26 pm

    congrats twenty you may be an old bollix but your a talented one. Come on Out to Beirut for a book signing when its done.

  20. holidaylil
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 6:41 pm

    cuntgratulations!

  21. peckerhead
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 6:45 pm

    I hope you won’t let this distract you from your election campaign. Oh shit, sorry…!

  22. Bock the Robber
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 7:01 pm

    Well done, Mr Major.

  23. EWI
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 7:15 pm

    Test.

  24. EWI
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 7:19 pm

    (Testing Safari)

  25. The Editor
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 7:19 pm

    Jolly good show!

  26. grannymar
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 7:59 pm

    Well done Twenty!

    Now why did I wash my hand? ;)

  27. Tricia
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 8:24 pm

    will you still talk to us all when you’re rich and famous?

  28. roosta
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 8:39 pm

    so………..when do the begrudgers start circling?

    congratumalations

  29. Dr Maroon
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 9:50 pm

    like, great, fab, magic. super, insert insincere,jealous compliment here……………………………

    I don’t mind, you jammy jammy bastard, but can I do your autographing for you? You won’t have the time.

  30. gingerpixel
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 9:50 pm

    Nice one Twenty!

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    March 22nd, 2007 @ 11:14 pm

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  32. that girl
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 11:47 pm

    Who’s going to play you in the movie of the book of the blog?

  33. Twenty Major
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 11:50 pm

    Fair enough, Maroon. I’ll have to spend my time drinking lots of free booze and stuff. You can drink my alcoholic wee.

  34. Daniel
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 11:53 pm

    Congrats Twenty! I’ll be looking forward to buy one. Damn, it’s only March and I already know what I want this Christmas!

  35. Phil
    March 22nd, 2007 @ 11:55 pm

    Congrats. I look forward to it.

  36. kav
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 12:00 am

    This is the best news since Jesus. Congrats.

  37. Offspring
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 12:01 am

    Deadly! A Ulysees of the 21st century! Just think.. in a hundred years time, all them future f*ckers will be dressing up like you on TwentyMajor Day…

    So when are you running for election? You’d have my vote, AND those of all my dead pets.

  38. porridge
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 12:14 am

    excellent stuff twenty. finally remembered those two lines you forgot two years ago?

  39. spannerhead
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 12:26 am

    Behan’s ghost hovers at your shoulder…

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  41. JC Skinner
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 2:04 am

    Sell out! ;-p

  42. Problemchildbride
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 6:48 am

    You know you’re going to have to start wearing black polo necks and looking off thoughtfully into the mid-distance now, dontcha? It’s part of the job, mate.
    I think there’s a clause about wide-ribbed cords and a haunted past too.

    I can’t ask you to sign across my tits though, like fmc. I’ve got Salman Rushdies signature there in indelible ink, only it was just after his fatwah and his hand was shaking like a leaf – what a mess he made. I had to miss out on Martin Amis too ‘cos of that, although I do have Jonathon Franzen on me bum!

    Best of luck with it, Mister Twenty. I’m looking forward to it already.

  43. MacDara
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 8:25 am

    Twenty remember the reason we hate you is because you are a degenerate criminaland a Guinness drinking grumpy old cunt. Don’t be going and changing that opinion by giving lots of nice interviews.

  44. Twenty Major
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 9:47 am

    Twenty remember the reason we hate you is because you are a degenerate criminaland a Guinness drinking grumpy old cunt.

    Duly noted.

    Black polo necks? I’m not Lloyd Cole, you know.

  45. yaines
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 9:52 am

    Ah fair play to ya Twenty! I’ve been reading your blog for the best part of a year now so I’m really looking forward to the book!

  46. BigUlsterman
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 10:16 am

    Man, you’re gonna be rich.

  47. Jimmy Page's Trousers
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 11:50 am

    God damn it, I begrudge. Why should the people that do all the hard work and have all the talent get the breaks and all the chances to autograph tits? It’s so unfair.

    And what’s with all the well-wishing commenters. The default Irish reaction to good news is to begrudge. More begrudgery, I say. More.

  48. McAWilliams
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 12:07 pm

    Fair do’s Twenty, I am thrilled to see that the writing at last has been noticed by a publisher, more power to you.

  49. McAWilliams Verba
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 12:25 pm

    Twenty Major got a book deal!!!

    It was bound to happen at some stage that Mr Major was going to get noticed by either a publisher or an advertising agency for his writing skills. Well Sinead Gleeson announced he got a 2 book deal from Hodder…

  50. Littlesapling
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 1:06 pm

    I can’t wait to read it and then smooth the corners and give it as a present to a loved one

  51. Caro
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 1:09 pm

    Congrats Twenty! I usually just nick books off other people but I might actually fork out for yours…

  52. neil c
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 1:11 pm

    it was always going to happen…

    Celia Ahern got a book deal cause of her ‘connections’ with the Taoiseach.
    Twenty, being the bastard son of Edwina Currie and John Major , was bound to follow.

    now lets hope he isn’t as ‘talented’.

  53. Yanakka
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 3:07 pm

    Wow! The only thing after this is the ‘Podge and Ridge Show.’

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  55. Angharod
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 8:02 pm

    Uhhh, is this the begrudgery line…?

    Seriously tho…what a natural progression of events. Congratulations.

  56. Dogzbollix
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 8:19 pm

    So, can we expect you in the near future to be going “mano a mano” with Podge and Rodge so as to hawk your wares?

    Congrats by the way!

  57. Dogzbollix
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 8:22 pm

    Clitical acclaim beckons……

  58. papalamour
    March 23rd, 2007 @ 8:41 pm

    Finally, with that hodder advance – you can now become a scientologist…

  59. TheDailyMagnet
    March 25th, 2007 @ 12:56 pm

    You’re a lucky cunt Twenty, and it’s a truly tragic admission I know, but I really look forward to a book about the Bollix & Bastardface & the rest – they help me to make sense of things after a hard day of gettting bent(over) by spin doctors.

    Every time I look at the old girl, I think of Bastardface and tell her what a bitch she is, with renewed pride and zest.

    Here’s to hoping that Hodder give you enough of a donation to get a heater so you can stand around in your y-fronts drinking beer & dreaming you’re in Jamaica.

  60. lauranen
    March 25th, 2007 @ 5:38 pm

    Here’s to hoping that Hodder give you enough of a donation to get a heater so you can stand around in your y-fronts drinking beer & dreaming you’re in Jamaica.

    Why did you have to put that image in my head? It’s like a mental screensaver.

  61. lauranen
    March 25th, 2007 @ 5:46 pm

    …distracting to such extent that I forgot the conratulations I was here for – brilliantness!

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  64. TheDailyMagnet
    March 26th, 2007 @ 11:14 am

    Well, I cannot claim responsibility for implanting that image as I have never witnessed Twenty in his y-fronts, although I do sincerely hope that when he eventually does drink beer in his y-fronts, in front of the radiator dreaming of Jamaica, that he does the responsible thing and does so on his own.

    I myself will bear the scars of that vivid image interminably.

  65. paddy whack
    March 26th, 2007 @ 1:52 pm

    Congratulations you bollix.

  66. Maura McHugh
    March 26th, 2007 @ 6:43 pm

    Brilliant news! I’m delighted, and look forward to buying the book.

  67. John
    March 27th, 2007 @ 11:24 am

    Class stuff, Twents. Well done. About bleedin time too.

  68. Sandy
    March 29th, 2007 @ 5:04 pm

    Well you’ve recieved loads of well-wishes and congratulations, i may as well ad my two-pence or cent.

    Well done and best of luck to you.

  69. Alex
    April 25th, 2007 @ 3:10 pm

    Thank You

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