Dec 31, 2009
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all my readers, friends & colleagues – I think 2010 is going to be a good year. If the Gods smile kindly on us it might be the year when the Poet & The Murderer finally becomes the movie that many people said it was destined to be. Lorrie Sheehie, the screenwriter, is ensconced in her house in Fulham as I speak, tweaking and cutting and editing the final rewrite. I am also... read more
Dec 24, 2009
Merry Christmas !
This is to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Our festivities started on Tuesday, with a party we gave at the Frontline Club in London, a meeting place for journalists & foreign correspondents, a stone’s throw from Paddington Station. The bad weather meant that some people couldn’t come, including singer, Jem, a fan of Heather’s book, Rena’s Promise, but about 15 friends and... read more
Dec 18, 2009
In The Bleak Midwinter ….
Woke up to a hard frost, the river in front of my cottage slowed to a trickle and patches of ice here and there. In eastern England there are 8 inches of snow. In America, where I spend half the year, snow is a familiar event. I was in Ohio last January ( 2009), researching my story, Cybergate, which is about to be published in Maxim magazine ( NY). I arrived in a blizzard but that didn’t stop people... read more
Dec 16, 2009
Cheques and Mortality
Not much to report today, except that I am still recovering from a few days of hands-on parenting again, helping my son make the transition from New York. 23 year olds are a mass of contradictions: they want your help, they don’t want your help, they need you, they don’t need you. They want your advice; then, if you give them advice they don’t want to hear, they get annoyed with you. Two... read more
Dec 14, 2009
Christmas, fathers & sons; & a death in Vienna
We are racing towards Christmas, I realised this morning it is on Friday week, in other words: just around the corner. Much to do before then, incl.putting up the Christmas tree I bought last week but I was in London with my son, helping him make the transition from New York to London. He had an interview this morning in St. Martin’s Lane then had to race to Euston to get a train to Manchester to... read more
Dec 10, 2009
The Loneliness of The Long Distance Father
A rushed day today, hammering down the M5 from Herefordshire to pick up my son in Taunton, who arrived in London this morning from New York. It’s a time of change for him, starting a new life in London, with lots of uncertainty. I feel emotionally shredded, worrying about him; but fretting parents are no help, what a 23 year old needs is unconditional love & ( of course) money. Divorced parents... read more
Dec 9, 2009
The Poet & The Murderer/Kindle Edition
Pop the champagne corks! As of Tuesday, December 8th. 2009, The Poet & The Murderer is available as an e-book on Kindle ( @ http://tinyurl.com/yhyvmbf). It’s my latest venture into epublishing, which I think is going to be the new Yukon for writers ( a recent survey suggested that by 2015 25% of the UK will have ereaders in one form or another) and I want to stake my claim! A lot of people feel... read more
Dec 2, 2009
The Poet & The Murderer: screenplay
Many people, from the managing editor of The New Yorker to readers and critics, have said: Oh, that would make a great movie! I always felt it would just take the right person to fall in love with the book and see how to do it. Enter, Lorrie Sheehy, a very talented, London-based screenwriter, who is nearing the end of the final draft of a screenplay of The Poet & The Murderer, after nearly a... read more
Dec 2, 2009
The Poet & The Murder new ebook edition
Hail, the digital revolution! I am very excited to announce that The Poet & The Murderer, with a new endorsement by film-maker, Errol Morris ( ” masterful” ), is now available in a new, revised ebook edition @ http://tinyurl.com/yewque7 In a few days, it will also be available @ Kindle.... read more
Simon Worrall was born in Wellington, England and spent his childhood in Eritrea, Paris and Singapore. He has written for publications all over the world, including National Geographic, Smithsonian, London Times, The Guardian, Paris Review, GQ, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Conde Nast Traveler, Maxim, Playboy,Die Zeit and the New Statesman. He divides his time between Herefordshire and the East End of Long Island.
