Published!

I came up with the idea for The Geek Manifesto in summer 2010. I wrote the proposal that autumn, and signed my contract with Transworld (Bantam Press) just before Christmas.

I wrote the book in the first nine months of last year (punctuated by the arrival of my daughter Anna), delivered the manuscript at the end of September, and got my first proofs early this year.

It’s now been published! And on the day after the Government finally committed to a Libel Reform Bill in the Queen’s Speech…

Here’s Anna investigating…

Many thanks to everyone who’s helped to make this project happen — especially to my editor Susanna Wadeson, my copy-editor Brenda Updegraff, the brilliant designer Leon Dufour, Polly Osborn who’s led on publicity, and my agent Georgina Capel. And, of course, to my wife Niki.

Enjoy the book!