What's new pussycat?

Not much, to be perfectly honest. I am trying to arrange a meeting with The Flying Dutchman, a film producer I met in a very random evening at Soho House a month or so ago, (check out my glam socialising/name dropping sweetie! I promise you it's not like that most of the time, indeed most of the time I am more likely to be found sorting out washing at 11pm than drinking cocktails and engaging in scintilating conversation with dashing young media types. More's the pity.)

So... my idea is simple but deadly cunning: the more demand there is for a thing, the more people want it. Now, I know that I'm not the first person to realise this, but I am hoping that by applying this principle to my book, I can encourage some lovely publisher that it might be worth their while printing it.

I'm also factoring in another important equation (all those years of studying science at school finally paid off), one of money and power. The money element of the equation goes: the more money people think they will make from something, the more they will pay for it. The importance part of the equation is more of a hierarchy - which may or may or may not hold true universally, but which I believe to be the general principal, and that is that films are more important than books. Or, to put it another way, the ultimate goal of any writer (or publisher) is to get the "film of the book" deal.

Now, I hope you're still with me because this is the fun bit: if I can persuade The Flying Dutchman that he thinks the book would make a good film, then surely it follows that the book would make money as a book? Ergo, publishing it would be a desirable and right thing to do. (Naturally the publishing of the manuscript would come at a slight premium if this were the case, but I'm sure I could be magnanimous in my negotiations.)

Thus far, arranging the date has been foiled at every turn (by sick children and international film festivals, I'm sure you can guess which problem belongs to which party), but I'm hopeful that next week it might finally happen...