"I Won’t Let This Stop Me!" Vows Author
A TV producer turned writer today vowed to continue fly-posting bookshops despite being thrown out of a central London store last week.
Big Brother producer Shed Simove was unceremoniously ejected by staff at Waterstones in Piccadilly last Thursday (13 MARCH) after plastering the shop with posters promoting his latest paperback.
Mr Simove, 36, denied being “too pushy” but admitted he had approached a number of browsing shoppers in an attempt to interest them in his book IDEAS MAN.
He also admitted placing copies of the paperback in prominent positions in
cluding the window, display plinths and the Harry Potter section.
But despite being dragged out of the store by the arm, Mr Simove today promised to continue fly-posting bookstores up and down the country.
He said: “I’m not going to let this stop me. I will be back out there again later this week armed with my posters. I don’t mean to be a pain but I just want people to know I have written this brilliant book!
“No bookshop is safe. I might turn up in Blackwells, Foyles or even WH Smith. It could be London, it could be Leeds. Edinburgh and my hometown of Cardiff are also on my hit-list.”
Mr Simove, a producer on Channel 4’s Big Brother for the past six years, wrote IDEAS MAN as a self help book for anyone who has ever had a great idea.
But he said public indifference to its publication had led him to go to extraordinary lengths to promote the book himself.
Last week he had hundreds of posters printed up each declaring: “DON’T PANIC! WE HAVE A FEW COPIES OF IDEAS MAN BY SHED SIMOVE LEFT.”
Some of the posters, including one in the window, remained on display at Waterstones in Piccadilly for several days after Mr Simove’s visit.
