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First meeting with Hilary Taylor today. She was exactly as delightful as I’d expected, constantly looking around the room during the meeting with me and Alice to see what she could have.

Alice: So we’re looking at promoting you within the supermarkets – we think that we can get you a placement in some of the weeklies, which should lift those sales.

Hilary: Can I have a copy of those ones? [pointing at a pile of Jacki’s books]

Me: Yes … of course. [passing her over a copy]

Hilary: No, I’ll need three – for my girls, you see.

Me: Right.

Alice: We also thought that you might like to start talking to your fans online –

Hilary: Do you have those flowers changed regularly?

Alice: I think someone just brought those in.

Hilary: They’re lovely. Can someone wrap them up for me?

Eventually Alice kicked me under the table and I called the meeting to a close before we were forced to donate our clothes to Hilary too. She hasn’t even submitted her new book to us yet. I should set her and Monica Warner up together – Monica’s one of our most successful authors, but she’s loaded beyond all imagining, and an absolute monster of a snob. I don’t know which of them would make it out alive.

TO DO:

Talk to Alice about whether we could make that meeting happen