You and Who is now available to pre-order
(with a provisional publishing date of December 12th 2011)
from the Hirst Books website:
http://www.hirstpublishing.com/You_and_Who_edited_by_JR_Southall/p384445_4969072.aspx
The legend Babelcolour gives a reading on his YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yefWXQNHdZ8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
It looks like there'll be an 'official launch' at the Hirst Books Christmas Event in Newbury, on Saturday 10th December, where I'll be signing copies of You and Who, hopefully alongside other, more respectable Hirst authors, such as Michael Troughton and John Leeson, potentially - but not Colin Baker, alas, who'll be appearing in panto in Mansfield that day! More news as and when.
“It's a wonderful idea, and I'll be sure to buy the book.”
Robert Shearman
(author The Chimes of Midnight, Dalek, Tiny Deaths, Love Songs For the Shy and Cynical)
You and Who is the definitive volume on what it means to be a Doctor Who fan.
The book has been written almost entirely by previously unpublished authors, from the ages of six to sixty, and comprises more than sixty-six essays on the subject of how and why it is that we have come to love Doctor Who.
Whether it be a tale of meeting the sixth Doctor, building up a huge library of VHS tapes, or discovering the programme through satellite channel repeats, there's a story in here that almost any fan will recognise as their own.
Beautifully written, filled with warmth and generosity, witty and delightful, You and Who is a book that no Doctor Who fan should be without.
Available 1 12 2011 from Hirst Publishing.
The proceeds will be donated to Children in Need.
- J.R. Southall
So, here is the contents page! I've arranged the order of the submissions into that which I think best serves the material (and the authors), and I've tried to ensure that no essays too similar sit right next to one another in the book - unless I've specifiaclly wanted them to do so (there were a couple of instances of this). Wow! If your name's on this list, this must be pretty exciting stuff...
5 Introduction
11 Spoilers! by Cameron Sinclair Harris
16 Dear Doctor, by Chris Orton
19 The Taking of Planet Wilf (Part One), by Andrew Philips
24 Teatime and an Open Mind, by Stuart Humphryes
28 The Complete History of Doctor Who (1963 – 1989), by Jonathon Lyttle
41 The “Matt Smith” Generation, by Abby Dorey
44 An Unearthly Show, by J.R. Southall
49 I Was a Teenage Time Lord, by Rob Irwin
54 Voted Most Quotable Show Ever, by Mike Morgan
56 I Am a Doctor Who Fan, by Mark Hevingham
61 Loving the Hated, by Matthew Kresal
65 A Fireplace and a Rug, by Will Brooks
68 The Life and Times of a Whovian, by Daniel J McLaughlin
72 The Third Era, by Julio Angel Ortiz
76 Still Seeking Susan, by Richard Kirby
79 Further Reading, by Stephen Candy
81 The Trip of a Lifetime, Indeed! by Larry Mullen
84 Good Old Tom-Boy! by Dez Skinn
87 The Doctor, Me and Everyone Else, by Adam Ray
90 After All, That’s How It All Started! by Andrew Clancy
97 “Don’t Worry, He’ll Just Regenerate!” by Daniel Peat
100 Getting a First Look Through Repeats, by Joseph Channon
102 Every Child Should See a Doctor, by Vince Stadon
106 Who On 2 (Or, How I Fell in Love With an Old, Dead Thing), by Nicholas Blake
116 The Unconventional Hero, by Rik Moran
120 Tears Before Bedtime, by Greg Dunn
123 Mission to the Unknown, by Andrew Curnow
127 All Thanks to Patrick... by Paul Butler
129 Police Public Call Box – Out of Order, by Robert Morrison
138 A Prescription for Nostalgia, by Kristan Johnson
147 Now Here’s a Funny Idea... by Nicholas Peat
150 Shaping a Childhood, by Amanda Evans
152 A Special Time, by Richard Angell
154 Loving Who, by Cindy A. Matthews
157 Doctor Who and My Ongoing Quest to Like All Things, by Tom Henry
161 Infinite Dimensions in Space and Time: When the TARDIS Landed in Mexico, by Fernanda Boils
164 Through the Wilderness, by Dave Workman
166 Why Doctor Who is Like Christmas! by Nicola J. Johnson
169 “Do You Want to Come With Me?” by Grant Webb
172 A Madman With a Box Opens My Box, by Michael Russell
176 The Day I Met the Doctor, by Simon Hart
179 Who, Where and When, by Alex Storer
184 Choices, by Michael M. Gilroy-Sinclair
186 An American on Gallifrey, by Nicholas A. Tosoni
190 That Battered Blue Box, by Lucy Horn
193 Growing Up With the Doctor, by Antony Cox
198 The Day the Music Died, by Tony Green
202 Time and Again, by John G. Wood
206 Stranger in Space, by Greg Walker
208 Doctor Who is Responsible for Everything! by Mikael William Barnard
214 Why I Like Doctor Who, by Andrew Bowman
215 What’s Wrong With It, by Eamon Jurdzis
218 Me and Who, by Ben Jones
223 1993 Was the Year of the Tin, by Lissa Levesque
229 A Death in the Family, by Brendan Jones
234 Just Vinegar, Please, by Emma Lucy Whitney
238 We Walk in Eternity, by Matthew Crossman
240 Take Home and Keep, by Michael Bellamy
243 The Daisyest Daisy, by Jef Hughes
246 Genesis of My Enlightenment, by Neil Thomas
252 “I Just Do the Best I Can,” by Andrew Orton
256 I Think I’m Rather More Expendable than You Are, by Christopher Bryant
260 Whose Time Is It Anyway?, by Paul Driscoll
262 The Taking of Planet Wilf (Part Two), by Andrew Philips
269 The Doctor’s An Alien – So Am I, by Steven Ray
270 It’s Got Daleks In It! by Andrew Tomlinson
274 I Love Doctor Who, by Elizabeth Tomlinson