My biographies of Simon Cowell and Michael Jackson are published next week. Then the following week my Gunners Lists book hits the shelves. (I actually have six new books published over the next nine weeks.) The Sunday papers have covered the Cowell biography wonderfully. The News Of The World reviewer gave it four out of five, which is really pleasing. The Independent On Sunday diary page did its second story in three weeks on the book, focusing this time on my interview with Julie Burchill.

The busy promotional campaign for the Cowell book continues tomorrow when I do a newspaper review and interview on BBC Radio London, the first of something like 20 radio interviews I am doing next week. I will also be speaking to a few magazines and blogs. Meanwhile, the book is rising up the chart in WHSmiths and other shops. It’s winning Amazon’s Judges Joust (a face-off they set-up between my biog of Cowell and the brilliant Sean Smith’s one of Cheryl Cole).

As it this isn’t all brilliant enough, I’ve decided that The Cowell’s decision to do the opening X Factor auditions in front of arena audiences was a stroke of genius from the clever so-and-so. I didn’t enjoy it last week but after last night’s show I am definitely won over. Watching Jamie Archer’s ‘Sex On Fire’ audition made it all click into place, especially seeing The Cowell let himself go and join in the singing along.

Good times!