Frances Edmonds
In 1986, when a publisher and board director at William Heinemann, I
commissioned Frances Edmonds to write three books: Another Bloody Tour, Cricket
XXX Cricket and Members Only. They sold and sold and sold and the first two
topped both the hard and soft back charts for weeks.
Just before Christmas, I bumped into her at a Carole Stone party. She was coming
in as I was going out. In the intervening years, we have met maybe three maybe
four times and we had been promising to meet up because her two cricket books
are coming out as ebooks later this year to celebrate 30 years since they began
life.
Frances works for the D Group which is a smart network club which combines
eating with speakers. I was her guest at one of these dinners in January where
David Sole, the former captain of Scotland, gave a talk about xx for which he is
their Ambassador (what a job). So we spent the evening tasting these truly great
malts.
Of course, I had wanted to meet up with her because I had had a book idea for
her! Who would have guessed? Anyway, we're starting work on it shortly.......