Authors: Andy Robb
Geekhood (27 page)
As I’ve discovered, there’s a lot more to writing a book than writing a book. I’d like to offer my heartfelt thanks to Alex Garland for being kind enough to stop and chat, along with Jenny Savill at Andrew Nurnberg Associates and Jane Harris at Stripes Publishing, and their respective teams, for rolling the dice.
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Text copyright © Andy Robb, 2012
Excerpt from Spider-Man © and
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Excerpt from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King granted courtesy of New Line Productions, Inc.
“You’re Beautiful” Words and Music by James Hillier Blount, Sacha Skarbek and Amanda Ghost © 2004. Reproduced by Permission of EMI Music Publishing Ltd, W8 5SW and Bucks Music Group Ltd, W8 7TQ Approximately 15 words from Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Penguin, 2000). Copyright © John Steinbeck, 1937, 1965
First published as an ebook by Stripes Publishing in 2012.
eISBN: 978–1–84715–333–3
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