Article: The Age - August 26, 2006
McInnes Really Cooking
August 26, 2006
William McInnes was at sixes and sevens over his car despite the news that he is at 10 and four elsewhere, while Cate Kennedy is excited after discovering some icing on her cake, writes Jason Steger.
FOR A POPULAR ACTOR, William McInnes is making a pretty good fist of the writing game. Last year's memoir, A Man's Got to Have a Hobby, was followed up last month by his first novel, Cricket Kings. Now he has become the first Australian author to have a book in the country's top 10 fiction and non-fiction bestseller lists at the same time. His novel has appeared at No. 10 and his memoir is No. 4.
McInnes got the good news courtesy of Bookmarks as he was nursing his overheated car, on which the indicators had also packed up on its way to a garage. ("How do you indicate you're turning left," he wondered.) "Yeah?" was his understated reaction to the news of his double. "Really? That's all right. That'll make up for my car cooking."
He remains terribly modest about his success as an author. "I'm not the best at writing. I just like telling stories. I'm under no illusions. It's tremendous that people are reading them."
According to Nielsen BookScan, which surveys more than 1000 book sellers around the country, only two authors have been in their fiction and non-fiction top 10 at the same time: Patricia Cornwell with Blow Fly (fiction) and Portrait of a Killer (non-fiction), and Mitch Albom with Five People You Meet in Heaven (fiction) and Tuesdays With Morrie (non-fiction). US crime writer Michael Connelly missed out by two weeks last month with his novel The Lincoln Lawyer and his non-fiction book Crime Beat.
You can catch William McInnes at the writers' festival next week.
August 26, 2006
William McInnes was at sixes and sevens over his car despite the news that he is at 10 and four elsewhere, while Cate Kennedy is excited after discovering some icing on her cake, writes Jason Steger.
FOR A POPULAR ACTOR, William McInnes is making a pretty good fist of the writing game. Last year's memoir, A Man's Got to Have a Hobby, was followed up last month by his first novel, Cricket Kings. Now he has become the first Australian author to have a book in the country's top 10 fiction and non-fiction bestseller lists at the same time. His novel has appeared at No. 10 and his memoir is No. 4.
McInnes got the good news courtesy of Bookmarks as he was nursing his overheated car, on which the indicators had also packed up on its way to a garage. ("How do you indicate you're turning left," he wondered.) "Yeah?" was his understated reaction to the news of his double. "Really? That's all right. That'll make up for my car cooking."
He remains terribly modest about his success as an author. "I'm not the best at writing. I just like telling stories. I'm under no illusions. It's tremendous that people are reading them."
According to Nielsen BookScan, which surveys more than 1000 book sellers around the country, only two authors have been in their fiction and non-fiction top 10 at the same time: Patricia Cornwell with Blow Fly (fiction) and Portrait of a Killer (non-fiction), and Mitch Albom with Five People You Meet in Heaven (fiction) and Tuesdays With Morrie (non-fiction). US crime writer Michael Connelly missed out by two weeks last month with his novel The Lincoln Lawyer and his non-fiction book Crime Beat.
You can catch William McInnes at the writers' festival next week.
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