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Something I co-wrote with another scribbler of this parish today finally came up trumps. It produced earnings from our labours and has made all that slog worthwhile.

My royalty funded one of the poppadums in tonight’s curry takeaway.

I now think I understand what life as JK Rowling must be like.

What price a naan bread next time.

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And it wasn't on the house??? The poppadum, that is.

JK gets freebies.
No I had to pay. But he’s dangled a carrot.

He told me that if I’m interviewed on local radio at some point in the future and I give the restaurant a shout-out, there’s a year’s worth of free “all I can handle” pickle tray with my name on it.

Now that’s what I CALL an incentive.
 
But he’s dangled a carrot.
One of them?
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