Arthur Slade's Blog, page 24

Launch of The Hunchback Assignments

It's officially launched! The book is on it's way to the moon. Or maybe to Mars. It all happened on Tuesday, Sept. 22nd, 2009 at Mcnally Robinson Booksellers in Saskatoon, SK, Canada. One hundred and ten or so people showed up. And not all of them were my relatives!
I'm doing my fancy Keynote presentation, complete with sfx. And no glitches!
I'm standing there with my "what should I say next?" look.


You can watch a short video about it:

The voices that I used on the Keynote presentation were from...

Odd Victorian Factoid #27: Queen Victoria's Burial

Queen Victoria died on the 22nd of January, 1901, at the age of 81. She was buried in a white dress (she had worn black since the death of her husband 40 years earlier) and her wedding veil. She also had rings, bracelets, her husband's dressing gown, a photo of her servant John Brown (who predeceased her), a lock of John Brown's hair, shawls, handkerchiefs, and plaster casts of the hands of some of her favourite people stuffed into the coffin with her. She loved clutter!

Dark Deeps Cover Concept

Here's a clipping from the cover concept for The Dark Deeps, the second book in The Hunchback Assignments series. Alas, that's all I can show you...

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A Whole Box of American Version Hunchback Assignments...

This is what authors find exciting. A whole box of books arriving! At my door. I have all my author's copies now. And only a week and a day until the book is released in the U.S.

They popped out o' there like a spring heeled Jack! Err, several Spring Heeled Jacks, that is.

And now the traditional authorial pose with the books....

Gosh, life is grand...

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American Hunchback Books Are Here!

Yes, they've arrived. Blue and bold and ready to take on the world. Just the first two copies are here--extra bonus Random House sent me the library binding. I like library bindings. They're so sure of themselves. Sturdy, too. Now to wait by the door for the rest of my author copies. I'll set them up like dominoes. Or I'll re-enact the final battle in the Lord of the Rings using the American and the Canadian versions. Hmmm, which one is Frodo? And was it clever of me to name my character Modo...

The Hunchback Assignments Documentary PT 2

The BOOKED Hunchback Documentary Part 2: Who is Modo?

The Hunchback Assignments Website is live! Really!

Okay, put on your goggles. Strap down your top hat. Pick up your extra terrestrial walking stick. The Hunchback Assignments Website is officially live. Travel back to Victorian times. Read on a steam powered iPod! Discover Odd Victorian facts. It's all there.
It was designed by Derek Mah with input from myself (Derek designed my arthurslade.com website and more of his work is available at attoboy.com).

One of the problems we had to solve was that there are two different covers--one for Canad...

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Another interview @ http://ping.fm/olbQJ

Pigs sell

The new cover for the Canadian paperback of Jolted, out in fall of 2010. Cute, eh?

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The Hunchback Books arrive!

Lo and behold the day has finally arrived. Mr. Fed Ex pulled up and lugged a box of books into my house. The excitement was palpable. It was like Christmas and Halloween in August. Gosh, what could my publisher have sent me? My author's copies of my latest book? Could it be? With a snicker snack the tape on the box was cut and voila (that's French for "Woo hoo")--the contents were revealed. Yes, 20 little copies of the Canadian version of The Hunchback Assignments all in paper over board, just l