Two Days Left and Flatcap Has His Say

With two days to go to the launch of STAC #8, The Summer Wedding Murder, my old friend Flatcap has popped up wondering why he hasn’t had an invite.

Not that he would have gone. “I’ve no desire to watch another poor sod committing himself to penal servitude.” he said when I broached the matter with him.

As in most areas, Flatcap is an expert on marriage. “I should be,” he said. “I fell for it not once, but twice. I’ve had over forty years of conjugal confrontation and according to my calculations if I’d shot the pair of ’em I’d have been free a week last Tuesday.”

Flatcap’s current exposition, Flatcap’s Guide to UK Holidays, has just collected its sixth review.

Nothing escapes his cantankerously comic observations, no detail of vacation irritation gets away unscathed, making this Les Dawson-style rib-tickling rant a treat.

High praise from Iain Pattison, an acknowledged expert in the art of the short story, a man with an impressive record in writing humour, a blogger and competition judge for no lesser an organisation than the Writer’s Bureau. If you enjoy a good laugh, then take a look at his current title, the seriously rib-tickling Is That A Pun In Your Pocket.

Not that Flatcap is grateful for such praise. “It’s the natural order,” he told me.

Flatcap’s Guide to UK Holidays current sits at number 12 in the Amazon UK Kindle Humour/Parenting & Families top 100 and I think Flatcap is quite pleased about that, although you’d never get him to admit it.

Instead he will simply grumble on about the non-invitation to the Summer Wedding. “You’d think they’d want me there to cheer them up.”

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Flatcap’s Guide to UK Holidays is exclusive to Amazon Kindle.

The Summer Wedding Murder, STAC Mystery #8, from Crooked Cat Books is released on Wednesday June 19th. Check out the launch party on Facebook.