Live web-chat with Tony Parsons, 9pm-10pm, 6 October

[rachel(mumsnet)]

Columnist and author Tony Parsons will be joining us here on Monday 6th October from 9-10pm for a live chat. Tony's sixth novel, 'My Favourite Wife' has just been published and is described by The Independent as 'a much bigger, more ambitious book' than million-selling 'Man and Boy'. If you can't make the chat you can post your questions in advance here.
Hope to see you here on Monday.

Oh, and I am always interested in writing methods: you know - time of day, in a shed or not, that kind of thing...

What did you have for dinner tonight?

Do you sympathise with Fathers 4 Justice?

What's the best thing about living in Hampstead?

Did you wince or smile at Sarah Palin's folksy wink?

What brand of washing machine would you recommend?

Would you allow Jasmine to eat a few grapes going round the supermarket before you got to the checkout to pay for them?

does everyone have a novel inside them...?

lololol at scummy

TonyP - Do you own any shares? It's been a bugger of a day hasn't it?

George Bernard Shaw had a revolving hangover writing hut. Tell me about your writing space on the top floor of your house in Hampstead.

Good evening Mr Tony Parsons,

I have limited time to read and several books waiting to be read.

However, if you were to recommend me just one of your books, which would it be?

Ta
Slur

Who is your favourite crime author? Which authors have influenced your writing?

Serious question: are you thick skinned? Do you care about reviews? Do you say fuck'em to the bad ones, and mean it? And if you genuinely manage not to care, can you tell me how?

Thank you

I don't know if I can hang on till 9. Might just go to bed, read, and then review tomorrow.

did you reach a point in your life when you thought yes this is how i want things to be?

tone, how are you? hows your dog?

here

i was thinking of ordering this book, anyone read it?

hi tone, i was hoping to doss about for the rest of my life, and use the fact i'm a writer, writing a novel as a cover

any tips?

I frequently confuse you with Prime Minister Putin - any tips on how I might more easily tell you apart? Does Putin ever appear on Newsnight and then decide to stay on late for Newsnight Review, for the crack? If the vodka is flowing for example?

Hi Tony, I'm impressed that you're actually going to come and chat and haven't run screaming had unexpected last-minute commitments like a previous chatter. Do you like a challenge, or are we far from the toughest audience you've faced typed to?

Do you have a reader in mind when you write, or do you write for yourself? Why do you write? Do you just like putting thoughts down on paper, do you see the beginnings of stories all around you and then let them run to their end in your books, is it a sort of therapy or is it mostly to make money?

All these things should probably be 'to be announced 5 mins before going live'

A sahm's life is too dull to miss the chance of a good pathetic bitch I mean rib

Some authors seem to write books that work much better as films than as books, like Hornby no-one in particular in mind. Do you think your books would work well in film/on TV? Do you think they might even be better? (Apologies if this has already happened but I haven't noticed.)

Though I know you have changed your opinion on women. At least the ones who know their place

bran, who shat themseleves at the last moment?

wheres all the tones in the building, tones getting a cup of tea comments

mn hq are normally bigging it up by now

the suspense is building .............

Wow - after a slow start, there's now enough advance questions to fill the hour - Tony will try and get through as much as possible before ten but please be patient! and don't be too disappointed if he doesn't get chance to answer your question. Welcome to mumsnet, Tony Parsons...

I've never read Hornby or Parsons. I have have not noticed an either sized hole in my life that I feel the need to fit.
Maybe that's why I am lacking in so many ways...

tony, tony tony

Scheherazade (sp?) Goldsmith. She was going to come and do a lovely cosy chat about her book about the little ways in which we can all be eco-friendly. It was the funniest lead up to a chat ever, full of questions about the eco-friendliness of having homes and London and Devon and travelling between the two every week.