6 December

I went to see a talk by a Children's Author about how to get published. It turned out to be useless in this regard, but was pretty interesting anyway. The best moment for me was when he said - in total seriousness - that, soon after Salman Rushdie had published the Satanic Verses, he felt he wanted to write a more controversial book than he had written so far, at which he produced a copy of "Jesus' Day Off".