Hey Joe | Page 9 | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

@Elementary Penguin said
Hey joe 

You mentioned earlier that you were hoping to release a book.

I’m not sure if it mentioned anywhere else on this site so I do apologise if you have to repeat yourself but did you end up publishing the book or is it still in the works?

Also are you able to give some information about the book as well?

Well done on the site by the way.   

Hi EP.

I’ve been trying to get it finished for ages. I finished writing the final chapter yesterday, but I still have to do the afterword (which is likely to be fairly long).

As RN said it’s about The Beatles and drugs. I’ll announce the title and more info shortly. The book will have two parts, and part one is with my editor at the moment. I’ll send off part two to her this week. When I get back the subbed/proofed version I’ll send the whole thing to some selected beta readers for feedback.

I also need to commission some cover art, sort out the formatting, layout and typography, make sure the bibliography and citations are all correct, sort out a promo plan, publish it and do the marketing. It all takes a long time, which partly accounts for my absences here. I only really get about four hours a day to work on it, so progress has been a little slow, but I’m hoping to have it on sale sometime this summer.

@GardeningOctopus said
@Joe Two questions for ya!

Have you ever been to the US? If so, what did you think? 

What is your favorite part of living in the UK?  

Yes, I went to New York for new year in 2004/5 (mainly Manhattan with a flying visit to Brooklyn). I loved it. Ellie and I got engaged in Central Park. One day we’ll take the kids there.

There’s so much I’d like to see of America. We’re toying with the idea of a huge road trip for my 50th (I’m 41 now), going coast to coast. But it’s some way off. Fortunately Trump will be out of the way by then. I’m concerned with the direction the country is going in right now at the top level.

I’m not sure what I most like about the UK. There’s a lot to dislike about it right now, with the rise of the far right, Brexit, the hegemony of the hateful Conservative Party, Nigel Farage etc. Just awful, disgusting people. I have to remain hopeful that the Overton window will move back to a more caring, kinder society based on equality rather than self-interest, but at the moment that feels a long way off.

Really, what’s keeping me here is familiarity, inertia, all my friends and family being here, and lack of a viable alternative. If anyone knows of a not-too-expensive, broadly left-wing, non-nationalist, non-violent country where people speak English and don’t obsess over sport, with good public services, decent weather and Amazon Prime, I’m all ears.

I suppose a lot of what I like is the heritage of this country. We gave the world a lot of amazing cultural and technological gifts, which cumulatively are quite remarkable for a small island. It’s also quite lovely in many places, although the philistines have been doing their best to undo that since WW2 (I grew up in the city of Bath which is one of the most beautiful on the planet). We don’t have the monopoly on any of this, but we do OK.

@Evangeline said

Joe said

I’m not sure what I most like about the UK. There’s a lot to dislike about it right now, with the rise of the far right, Brexit, the hegemony of the hateful Conservative Party, Nigel Farage etc. Just awful, disgusting people. I have to remain hopeful that the Overton window will move back to a more caring, kinder society based on equality rather than self-interest, but at the moment that feels a long way off.
 

Right, because the left wing is totally not self centered.

Yep, definitely a caring society there. Breaking people’s windows, killing people in the name of justice (and streaming it on Facebook), physically beating people because “f**k Trump”, and all that “non-violent” protesting.
Yeah, real peaceful.   

You’re projecting. I didn’t suggesting any political ideology is pure and non-corrupt. I also wasn’t referring to the US, and I don’t recognise the problems you listed as being especially applicable to the UK.

@Starr Shine? said

joe, if you and your wife became criminals and got arrested, would this forum be taken by the goverment and would they get an admin account?  

It seems very doubtful that we’d end up in that situation, or that the government would be interested in taking it over. Perhaps we’ve already been infiltrated. Who knows?