A better click-bait title would have been ‘take me to bed with you’, but it wouldn’t be strictly true and you would be taking The Dean to bed too, which might require a stiff drink beforehand.
In any case, here is a quick video of me reading a chapter from the new PorterGirl novel, The Vanishing Lord.
I shall be at the London Book Fair this week, so online activity will be sporadic, although if you find yourself missing my little face, please feel free to keep up with me on Twitter and Facebook. Obviously this week will be a great opportunity for me to work hard in making important contacts and promoting my work. It is certainly not an excuse to go marauding around Kensington in nifty waistcoats, drinking wine and singing rude songs. No.
Lucy Brazier 
oooh!! I will watch and listen when I am not in my office… although I think my office people should appreciate this…
I want to mauraude around kensington wearing nifty waistcoats and suchlike!
Gather them all round with Bernards for all and declare a special break for everyone! But that might get everyone in trouble, so maybe save the viewing for later.
I wish you were coming with me!! If you find yourself accidentally in Kensington give me a shout…
The waistcoats are of an exceedingly nifty nature – I shall post pictures of them all. I shall be taking hats, too – a red fedora and a grey pinstripe one. I will look proper author-y, I tell you. 😀
oooh that does sound proper author-y!
I can *look* proper author-y although I am not sure I count as a proper author even if it is in my job title…
oddly I did once find myself in kensington accidently…I was on the way somewhere else and my sat nav decided to play tricks on me!
I wonder if I could use that as an excuse…
“dear boss, I was on the way to work and for some reason I was using a satnav which decided to play tricks on me. I am now in kensington and see no way at all that I can get back to work…”
You are certainly an author – a proper brainy one because it involves actually knowing things, rather than just making things up like I do!
It is the perfect excuse – your boss will totally understand. Especially the bit about have to stay for three days. Everyone knows how evil satnavs are, I doubt they will even question it.
I don’t so much have to know things as be able to get engineers to tell me things…which is tricky…
making stuff up is hard! well…making stuff up coherently with a conclusion is hard!
I am sure they will understand… how could they not!!
I could try the other excuse…”I went for a walk at lunchtime and ended up inkensington, now I am too tired to walk back so will have to stay!”
I think dealing with engineers and technical matters is far harder than making stuff up. The made up stuff only has to partially make sense, and my stuff always concludes by everyone going ‘Oh, well! Let’s have a drink’ which is pretty easy to do.
Yes that would work – also you can say you have been taken hostage by a hat-wearing writer who needs your assistance with her plan to take over the world. Call it compassionate leave 🙂
I think that is a fine conclusion! it works in real life too…
as for engineers…they are a tricky breed but if you give them bernards and write things down for them they end up on your side!
Oh yes!! that would be perfect. Noone could argue with that! I ahve so many fine excuses now I am wondering why I am still sitting at my desk!!
My whole life revolves around the ‘oh well! Let’s have a drink’ gambit…
I have made a note in case I need to handle engineers. Not literally handle, obviously, there’s probably laws against that. I find most decent people can be won over by Bernards! (Also note how others are following the way of the Bernard by referring to such on social media. I am so chuffed!)
Yay! Grab a hat and a waistcoat and run, run, run! (Also trousers. This isn’t Oxford, you know 😉 )
you could probably handle the engineers…after a bit of getting to know them and stroking their fur…
oh..no…thats gerbils…
oh yes…trousers are a must we can’t let that Oxfordian nonsense spread!!
I love that Bernards is spreading, some people have taken it up here too! 😀
**FOR THE BERNARDS!!**
**FOR THE BERNARDS!!**
Good luck wit the book fair Lucy xx
Thanks, Kate! xx