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Jim Webster, (In On a Chance! )
I'm reading the book. Great stuff so far. :-)
oh good, I've glad you're liking it :-)
OK so everything is getting out of hand.I discovered that the blog tour I did for the book launch ran to over 18,000 words
So I decided to put it into a kindle book, I think there are 13 stories and 13 pictures
An no, I'm not having a blog tour to launch it!
So
Tallis Steelyard. Pictures from an Exhibition
is available for a mere 99p from
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tallis-Steel...
And with a final post, the tour comes to an endThe locksmith and the harlot
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And a rather nice review for Tallis Steelyard and the sedan chair caper.5 out of 5 stars A most entertaining read
19 May 2018 - Published on Amazon.com
Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase
In this entertaining book by Jim Webster, the reader is treated to the ins and outs of sedan chair racing in Port Naain. Sedan chair racing comprises of chairs, transporting various wealthy ladies of impeccable social standing, borne by fit young men called sedan chair bearers, which raced each other through the streets. The ladies are not at all good sports and all sorts of interesting cheats take place during these races which are bet on by those in the city with a propensity for gambling.
We are introduced to a number of intriguing characters. Mistress Bream is one, an elderly lady whose decreased mobility is depriving her of the fun and social interaction she yearns for. Her various supporters arrange to have a special chair with wheels built for her and Tallis, a poet and the hero of the story, is invited to visit and view her new acquisition. This is the start of an extraordinary tale the results in Tallis seeing Mistress Bream’s son chasing a pair of sedan chair bearers with an axe and being coerced into finding out what has caused this odd behaviour. Tallis’ quest for the truth of the matter leads him to meeting Mistress Graan, the wife of a local gangster, who wishes to be seen as more cultured. Tallis agrees to assist her with hosting a poets soiree and he soon becomes embroiled in her ambitions, including her desires with regards to the sedan chair racing in the city.
I enjoyed the little pieces of poetry that the author wove into the story to enhance it. Once such piece was as follows:
“Who would not stare?
In agitation
When the sedan chair
Comes a cropper
The gyration
Was improper.”
Will Tallis manage to hold a successful soiree for Mistress Graan and help her on her way to social acceptance? Will Mistress Graan achieve her goal of a win in the next sedan chair race? Will Tallis discover why Mistress Bream’s son was behaving so strangely?
You will have to read this lovely book to find out."
I don't get many reviews so I cherish them all :-)
Tell me about it. I think I've had about three this year so far.
I actually went to Amazon and checked. Setting aside duplicates in .com and co.uk I've actually had eight.But I've published three books this year and five last year!
Novella length rather than full novels
Duplicates will cease now. You are only allowed to review where you've spent £50-ish. So .co.uk only from me.
yes, I wonder how that will the hit number of genuine reviews from people who don't but much from Amazon
Yes, Benor, the cartographer, is back.I'm writing and publishing a second collection of the Port Naain Intelligencer stories.
The first to see the light of day is (drum roll, trumpets)
A licence to print money
An honest cartographer attempts to steer his way though grasping bureaucrats, bent bookmakers, magistrates who practice performance poetry and a young lady who wishes to end an 'arrangement.'
Can Benor see justice done? Will Mutt finally meet his match? What do they teach aspiring temple dancers nowadays?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/licence-prin...
Oooh cool! Bought it!
YES! Going to buy that as soon as I get onto something that remembers my amazon password - because I don’t!Cheers
MTM
M.T. wrote: "YES! Going to buy that as soon as I get onto something that remembers my amazon password - because I don’t!Cheers
MTM"
Senior Roman politicians used to have a slave who walked behind them telling them who they were about to meet and why they were important. (I cannot remember what the term for them was)
I think we need somebody who remembers all our passwords for us
It's called a brain. I used to have one...
Kath wrote: "It's called a brain. I used to have one..."it strikes me that the bit that proofreads is still in pretty good working order.
And the bit that writes still hangs together pretty well
;-)
All the remaining brain cells were funnelled into those two areas
Jim wrote: "M.T. wrote: "YES! Going to buy that as soon as I get onto something that remembers my amazon password - because I don’t!Cheers
MTM"
Senior Roman politicians used to have a slave who walked behi..."
I've got one! It's called a Filofax.
Will wrote: "Oh, and I've a copy of the book, too."Ah the joys of old technology allowing you to access the finest of the new :-)
Hope you enjoy it
I have every antic ipation... and this space opera I'm reading right now isn't engaging me.There are far too many characters involved, and I keep losing track of who is on what side
I do wonder if there is a number of characters a reader can engage with and if you do more that number you have problems.Yes I'm looking at you Leo Tolstoy!
There are far more admirals involved than can be reasonably slotted into one small galaxy. It becomes confusing trying to recall which admiral is working for which side
Are they all in the Admiralty? And are they admirable?
None of them, sadly, are called Crichton
Will wrote: "There are far more admirals involved than can be reasonably slotted into one small galaxy. It becomes confusing trying to recall which admiral is working for which side"there is a naval phenomena which involves promoting dangerously incompetent officers to Admiral and then posting them to a desk job where they have no access to ships.
It's expensive but nowhere near as expensive as giving them ships to play with :-)
Another challenge picture!
Two old men eating soup!It's in the heap, I'm apparently running two blog tours at the moment ;-)
I'm in no hurry :)Looks like soup is all they can manage - slight lack of toothage...
And Benor is back, again, with a second investigation.A measured response: The Port Naain Intelligencer
Hired to do a comparatively simple piece of mapping work Benor should perhaps have been suspicious when the pay seemed generous.
Will he ever get to the bottom of what is going on?
How rough is the rough justice of rural Partann?
How to clean out a privy with a crossbow. Welcome to the pastoral idyll.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/measured-res...
And no, there will be no blog tour to announce the launch of this book! :-)
Yippeeeee! I'm just enjoying the other one. I find I do a lot of reading on my phone when I'm waiting about for things these days.
So good I might have bought that twice ... I did it on the wrong account first but now it seems they're both linked anyway!
Will wrote: "Got mine!"Mein Gott!
If it's as much fun as the last one, that's a given!
It's Flotsam or Jetsamhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Flotsam-Jets...
This is the one where he arrives in Port Naain and Tallis Steelyard makes his first appearance in modern western literature :-)
but after that you can read them in pretty much any order, but I suppose you'll notice character development more if you go in the order they were published :-)
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