Coming to a US bookstore near you!

Yes, I know I keep banging on about the US release of Beijing Blur... but I couldn't resist an update...

BB has finally been printed, packaged and shipped from the warehouse and is en route to a North American bookstore near you. The official release is a few weeks off yet (November 15, 2008), but the Blur is closer than ever to being in your hot little American hands.

And it looks good, as good as Levi Johnston's new haircut.

The US edition features the same beautiful Australian design by Daniel New, described as "no-holds-barred" by the Canberra Times - but has a few new spellings and commas and z's and no whacky metrics to confuse you.

Amazon is taking pre-orders, and as soon as they have stock, the book will be on its way to your 4-story Brooklyn walkup or your sunny Los Angeles cottage.

So help Amazon's computers register your Palin-sized public interest by logging on, ordering and writing your own reviews, so you can be as cool as the following writers:

"INTIMATE, EVOCATIVE AND ERUDITE WRITING, SHIMMERING WITH HONESTY" - Canberra Times

"POIGNANT AND REVELATORY" - Adelaide Advertiser

"BANG ON TARGET" - Sunday Age, Melbourne

"YOU'LL BE SWEPT UP IN THE ENERGY, CONTRADICTION AND CONFUSION THAT IS MODERN BEIJING" - The Cairns Post

"WEST'S VOICE RINGS WITH INSIGHT" - Courier Mail, Brisbane

"THE BEST TRAVEL WRITERS COME ACROSS AS AFFABLE COMPANIONS WHO BALANCE FACT WITH ENTERTAINMENT AND WEST HAS IT DOWN" - Madison Magazine

"FASCINATING AND INTIMATE" - Q News