UK PUBLICATION A YEAR AGO TODAY

July 13, 2006 was the official publication date for The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia in the UK. (It had been published in the US that June 15.) I'd like to say I think my publishers, Continuum, did a fine job in producing a lovely-looking book at a remarkable price. They also continue to give support to my live events, in the form of posters and flyers. I hope be able to supply a new list of forthcoming dates soon. These should include Birmingham and two dates in Scotland.

Meanwhile I'm gratefully thrilled, so far, with responses to my new book (different publisher: Bloomsbury, and only published in the UK so far), Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell, which gets a 5-star review in the current Uncut and was named "Non-Fiction of the Week" in Metro on Tuesday... while on Amazon.co.uk, it shot into the top 200 sales rankings that day, and even into their Top 10 Movers & Shakers. This also seems to me a good-looking book, and, at least on Amazon, it too is a remarkable price for a 448-page hardback.