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[Jim]

It tried (obviously not a full novel) but the limit is 256 characters

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

I will happily be a Thread Title Editor. My rates are very competitive.

[Jim]

Better put that in your thread title :-)

[Patti (baconater)]

Jim wrote: "It tried (obviously not a full novel) but the limit is 256 characters"

IT tried. It did not succeed.

[Jim]

And another story from Tallis on his blog

https://tallissteelyard.wordpress.com...

[Jim]

Guess what's coming next

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

oooooh!! Thats just made my day, well my afternoon at least ;)

[Will]

Great cover, Jim!

[Kath]

Excellent cover!

[David]

Make that three. Excellent cover, Jim.

[Jim]

AUK are brilliant with covers. It's one reason I've stayed with them. 'Nobody does it better' :-)

[Patti (baconater)]

Nice bacon!

Cover. I mean cover.

[Jim]

you could always wrap your bacon in the old newspaper and cut it with the knife if you were that way inclined

[David]

I like that cover.

[Jim]

With or without added bacon?

I confess to being rather fond of it myself, but I'm glad people like it because my cunning plans involve people seeing an awful lot of it ;-)

[David]

Things are always better with bacon.

A good book - which that one undoubtedly is - would go down rather well with a bacon sandwich.

[Jim]

I thought I'd let Tallis make the announcement.
This might not have been an entirely good idea

https://tallissteelyard.wordpress.com...

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Tallis seem to have got rather out of your control Jim. Send him down to my dungeon and I'll sort him out for you!

[Jim]

He's a poet, what can one expect?

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

He would be spouting verse while on the rack, I suppose...

[Jim]

At the very least you'd be the victim of some very cutting limericks

[David]

Jim wrote: "I thought I'd let Tallis make the announcement.
This might not have been an entirely good idea

https://tallissteelyard.wordpress.com..."

Great, Jim. Does Tallis do reviews? :~)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I am well used to limericks! I would riposte with a well honed haiku or two.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

*like*

[Jim]

David wrote: "
Great, Jim. Does Tallis do reviews? :~)
..."

I'm not sure I've got the nerve to ask him.

He'd almost certain review poetry, and probably prose.

Perhaps I ought to ask him.

[Pat ()]

Got it! Off to read it!

[Jim]

Hope you like it Pat.

[Pat ()]

Finished! I LOVED it!! How do I get the Tomb Yard Follies? It's not on Amazon.

[Jim]

Pat (Scorpio) wrote: "Finished! I LOVED it!! How do I get the Tomb Yard Follies? It's not on Amazon."

I'm afraid you've got to wait four months for tomb-yard follies :-(

I'm afraid that AUK made the mistake of putting that one on the back rather than Flotsam or Jetsam

[Jim]

OK so I'll announce it. A Much Arranged Marriage has now been published.

It is available from all the usual suspects, nook etc as well as Amazon.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Much-Arranged...

Benor is asked to help warn off a blackmailer who appears to be threatening a young girl's chances of marriage. But the deeper he digs, the more dangerous things become.

[Jim]

And because I'm a good boy I think I've got the group ending on the amazon link so money goes to the group

[Will]

Am I the first to acquire a copy of this?

[David]

Will wrote: "Am I the first to acquire a copy of this?"

It seems Pat's not only aquired it, but has already read it

[Will]

Dedication! I need readers like that, too.

[Jim]

Will wrote: "Dedication! I need readers like that, too."

Everybody needs a Pat ;-)

[Kath]

I've just bought it and read it too - and you can read my interview with the author here http://www.kathmiddletonbooks.com/blo...

[Jim]

Thanks Kath
Perhaps I write excellent female characters because I know so many excellent female characters ;-)

[Kath]

I hope you do! I feel that some of our celebrated writers, Dickens and Tolkien for example, write either caricatures or women who are as wet as a bucket of water. They aren't like my friends - but yours are!

[Pat ()]

Jim wrote: "Pat (Scorpio) wrote: "Finished! I LOVED it!! How do I get the Tomb Yard Follies? It's not on Amazon."

I'm afraid you've got to wait four months for tomb-yard follies :-(

I'm afraid that AUK made ..."

Aww. That's not a mistake, that's advanced marketing! Shall await it's release with baited breath.

[Jim]

Having lived with a Mother, Sister, Wife and Three daughters I suspect that I've seen a fair range :-)

(edited to add that even the dog is a bitch :-) )

[M.T.]

I've bought it too, but for some reason my post didn't come out!

Cheers

MTM

[Will]

I'm sure Jim has a post remover you can borrow, Mary?

[David]

I have a copy. Just purchased, not yet read.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

David wrote: "I have a copy. Just purchased, not yet read."

Moi aussi.

[David]

I had to google that. Thought you were claiming to be Australian.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I had a private bet with myself that someone would say that!

[David]

Damn! Just label me predictable.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

But still lovable :)

[G J (Gaff to my friends)]

Not having had any lessons in French ... ever ... I had to look it up too. I love online translations of things e.g:

Unions are concerned - and, frankly, so am I - that downsizing could negatively affect safety.

(from http://en.bab.la/dictionary/french-en...)

Context is so important. Unfortunately, I now have an entire class of year 7's who believe that Moi aussi means "Unions are concerned - and, frankly, so am I - that downsizing could negatively affect safety" and that two words of French can say soooo much! :-)

That'll teach me not to leave my projector on while I catch up on Goodreads and they're on task!

[Jim]

I bow before the master ;-)