I’d not realised how gruelling it is to be In Trade.*
Right, where were we? Oh. Right.
I again commend to you - it having been part of the reason for my protracted absence - my new novel, Cross and Poppy, specifically the first in my new series of novels, Village Tales. I am honoured and chuffed to see that it has been very kindly reviewed. (I may add that some of you must surely immediately recognise the five-star reviewer concerned, to whom I am as ever indebted.) I need hardly say that I shall be obliged for any and all reviews, good, bad, or indifferent.
[Book news.]
So also has been favoured Claymore, a Western, posthumously published by us, by Mr Pyle’s late father. It also has garnered a five-star review. The same is true of Mr Pyle’s own Benevolent Designs: The Countess and the General: George Washington, Selina Countess of Huntingdon, their correspondence, & the evangelizing of America, which has been praised by the American novelist Curtis Edmonds in a five-star review.
We at Bapton Books are also negotiating the recruitment of a new author of fiction for our imprint, which excited us greatly. I shall advise as events warrant. In that vein, I remind you all that we are open to enquiries and proposals, always.
Mr Pyle has done most of the heavy lifting w/r/t this next matter, although I have not been idle (Ashes? What Ashes? We do not speak of them). The Bapton Books Un-Book Store is now open (obviously, I shd call it a ‘shop’, but…), with designs and spinoffs from or inspired by all our various publications, as you might have seen on our tumblr were you to follow it.
[The Bapton Books shop.]
I think some of you might want this
on a cap or a bag or what not. And not a few of you deserve this tee-shirt from Cross & Poppy.
And I know damned good and well not a few of you want this as a shirt or poster or what have you, from a character in Cross & Poppy who says this in a future tale:
So that is why I’ve been away. Now to get caught up here, fannishly.
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* Or vice-versa. Speaking of trade. I am suffering a slightly strained abdominal muscle just now. It is not due to the manual labour of writing and publishing, nor to the effete relaxations of agriculture, nor yet can it be ascribed to shouting at the wireless at 2.0 am during TMS. It is the first time I have actually pulled a muscle from having … pulled. Evidently, being In Trade is only less laborious than, ah, having trade in one.
I again commend to you - it having been part of the reason for my protracted absence - my new novel, Cross and Poppy, specifically the first in my new series of novels, Village Tales. I am honoured and chuffed to see that it has been very kindly reviewed. (I may add that some of you must surely immediately recognise the five-star reviewer concerned, to whom I am as ever indebted.) I need hardly say that I shall be obliged for any and all reviews, good, bad, or indifferent.
[Book news.]
So also has been favoured Claymore, a Western, posthumously published by us, by Mr Pyle’s late father. It also has garnered a five-star review. The same is true of Mr Pyle’s own Benevolent Designs: The Countess and the General: George Washington, Selina Countess of Huntingdon, their correspondence, & the evangelizing of America, which has been praised by the American novelist Curtis Edmonds in a five-star review.
We at Bapton Books are also negotiating the recruitment of a new author of fiction for our imprint, which excited us greatly. I shall advise as events warrant. In that vein, I remind you all that we are open to enquiries and proposals, always.
Mr Pyle has done most of the heavy lifting w/r/t this next matter, although I have not been idle (Ashes? What Ashes? We do not speak of them). The Bapton Books Un-Book Store is now open (obviously, I shd call it a ‘shop’, but…), with designs and spinoffs from or inspired by all our various publications, as you might have seen on our tumblr were you to follow it.
[The Bapton Books shop.]
I think some of you might want this
on a cap or a bag or what not. And not a few of you deserve this tee-shirt from Cross & Poppy.
And I know damned good and well not a few of you want this as a shirt or poster or what have you, from a character in Cross & Poppy who says this in a future tale:
So that is why I’ve been away. Now to get caught up here, fannishly.
____________________
* Or vice-versa. Speaking of trade. I am suffering a slightly strained abdominal muscle just now. It is not due to the manual labour of writing and publishing, nor to the effete relaxations of agriculture, nor yet can it be ascribed to shouting at the wireless at 2.0 am during TMS. It is the first time I have actually pulled a muscle from having … pulled. Evidently, being In Trade is only less laborious than, ah, having trade in one.