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JonH wrote:
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I talked to Adrian Chiles on BBC 5 live today about my experiences on the Futures tour. If you want to listen, the link follows. My interview starts at the 1 hour 17 minutes mark. (I better warn anyone planning to read Chasing Points, there is a spoiler alert! I believe the radio broadcast will stay up until the end of July). https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b86gk4

 Heard the interview whilst driving, really good interview and made the book sound very appealing (which it is!) - hope it boosts sales!

 Thanks for listening JonH. Adrian Chiles really made it quite funny and built it up well - had desired effect as book went to # 1 in tennis and #340 in bestseller list on amazon by that evening. 



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There's an article in The Telgraph today with a brief interview with Gregory - mainly about the upcoming tour changes.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2018/08/10/delightful-tales-tennis-impostor-reveal-takes-get-top/

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the addict wrote:

There's an article in The Telgraph today with a brief interview with Gregory - mainly about the upcoming tour changes.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/2018/08/10/delightful-tales-tennis-impostor-reveal-takes-get-top/

(might need to register to read the article)

 

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-- Edited by the addict on Friday 10th of August 2018 11:49:00 AM

 Well spotted The Addict. Just to let you know, the same article will be in Saturday's (tomorrow) The Telegraph newspaper, on the back page of the sports supplement in the 'Final Whistle' section.



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Just to say, my feature on Greg and his book is in today's New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/sports/gregory-howe-atp-rankings.html



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Brilliant.



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Yes, really good article, great depth and fitted in really well with how I read the book



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Just to say, my feature on Greg and his book is in today's New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/sports/gregory-howe-atp-rankings.html

 Thanks for that = a real insight smile



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Great article, enjoyed that



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Thanks guys!



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Strongbow wrote:
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Just to say, my feature on Greg and his book is in today's New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/sports/gregory-howe-atp-rankings.html

 Thanks for that = a real insight smile

 Well done, David, very  well written piece. Not bought the book yet, but will do.



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I see Gregs book is on the shortlist for William Hill Sports Book of the Year, the only tennis book. Good luck to greg in that, hope it wins!



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I see Gregs book is on the shortlist for William Hill Sports Book of the Year, the only tennis book. Good luck to greg in that, hope it wins!

 Thanks Jon. At the moment the book has made the longlist, but I like the sound of your post, so I hope it comes true! Short list announced on 23 October. As there were 141 entries this year, and the longlist is 17, then I feel like I'm at about the fourth round stage of a grand slam.



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I was wondering how many candidates there were, that's more than I expected, hence even more of an achievement. That's a good way to look at it too - well done for making it to the second week then! biggrin

Based on this graph (from https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/Chasing-Points-Season-Tennis-Circuit/product/1785313835?active=sales_rank, which doesn't catch the intra-day peaks - I know it got up into the 300s soon after the Adrian Chiles interview - but is presumably fairly accurate) and https://www.theresaragan.com/salesrankingchart/ (based on US figures, so I'd suggest dividing the sales by about 5 to get approximate UK equivalents), the book has been selling at least one copy per day even in the quiet periods, going up as high as 30-50 copies per day when it has had some good publicity. I'm sure that's not making Greg rich but I'd have thought that's very successful for a book like this.

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I wonder if it's the first book any of us have been mentioned in that's up for an award too - if only because you could end that sentence at "mentioned in" and it would still be true, at least for me! wink Though I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that some other forumites have written or been mentioned in multiple books.



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This is a very impressive chart! I guess it's no surprise that it peaks during grand slams and then drops straight after them - but I didn't imagine it would match up so closely. I haven't had sales figures yet from the publisher, but as they are in the second print run (after 2,000 in the first run), then your figures may be roughly accurate. And yes, being an author may be like being a low-level pro tennis player - one certainly doesn't do it for the money!



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Where I live Smith's is closing and they had reduced prices of books and stationery by 30 %  so got round to buying their copy of this book. Interesting read. 



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