Kennedy's Blog

For once, I feel that my opening into to this issue is probably more avant garde than this Candid here which, when I read it again, is almost serious! Anyway, I thought I would let you know of a project that I am masterminding in the UK. I have decided to give out 1500 free copies of my book to UK consumers– ‘Please God I Want To Win the Lottery’ (see www.claytoncaine.com) to charities and hospitals in the UK.

Basically, Kennedy’s will give free copies to people who may not normally be able to afford to buy a novel or be able to get to a bookshop. I have already teamed up with the US book tracking organisation BookCrossing.com so we can follow the progress online and it came to my conscience, as things do in the late hours, that we should be providing a free bar of chocolate along with this free read! So let’s do it, as Branson would say.

I am only talking of 1500 bars and was wondering if anyone would like to join Kennedy’s in the charitable cause, and if there’s anyone who might be able to help with the distribution? We plan to put a sticker in the inside front cover of the book with the logo of the company with a voucher - publicity awaits! Well, almost. The great thing is that the book gets passed on with the message.

…And now ladies and gentlemen; revealed before your eyes, as if by pure magic, there are not one, but three great writers at your service at Kennedy’s… [Wild cheers in the background]. 

Contrary  to what most people may think, my ultimate goal in life is to be a good man. That statement was etched in my heart for many years; I just didn’t see the etchings in my youth. It took my life’s mishaps to uncover it. And in this intense, physical world that I find myself rather uncomfortably immersed in, how brilliantly difficult the simple act of ‘being good’ can seem to be.

... who’s art lies in heaven
A hollow chocolate should be thy name
Give us this daily .. and deliver it from evil forces,
.. so that we can all be so tempted,
Forever, Amen