Free Things About Me

Many thanks to Aliya Whiteley for sending me a free bookmark. It is currently marking my place in Martin Amis' Experience and, I must say, doing a damn fine job of it.

But why did Aliya send me a free bookmark in the first place? Simple: As an amusing way to promote her debut novel, Three Things About Me, that is to be released under Macmillan's controversial New Writing imprint in July, Aliya is inviting any passing stragglers to post three "facts" about themselves on her website forum, one of which is a lie. If she fails to guess which of the three "facts" is a lie, she will send you a free bookmark.

I managed to secure my freebie by offering the following facts:

1. I have a glass eye.
2. I only have one testicle.
3. I have a birthmark on my lower lip.

Politeness more than anything compelled Aliya to erroneously select one of the above as the falsehood lest she cause offense, even though she suspected it was true. It was a bit of an underhand strategy on my part but, dagnabbit, a free bookmark was at stake!

Anyway, you can go test Aliya's powers of guesswork yourself by visiting her website.