World Folk Tales

Apparently the new book is ready. I say apparently because I haven't seen it yet. Cover artist and genius friend Howard David Johnson has received some copies direct from the printers in the US and seems to be moderately pleased with the results.
'The books are BEAUTIFUL!!!' he emailed. I'll take that as quality control and open the floodgates. Order now and you could get your copy before me.
Moral; Always use an odd number of exclamation marks, preferably a prime number.

for art's sake

How does it all work? Before you know it you're interviewing one of the finest artists in the world for an e-book to be given away with your next 'real' volume. Howard David Johnson is a very fine artist with a gift for inaginary photo-realism. His art adorns the first volume of my World Folk Tales (at the printers as I ramble). His web site is a delight.

not long dying

World Folk Tales is the name of the new publishing project so eagerly awaited at this webspot. You can go to www.worldfolktales.com now, but you won't see much until the first volume is available. This little mention should start preparing the webcrawlers though.

longtime no blog

Have been extremely busy loafing and putting together a new publishing house lately. Yes, I know you don't believe me. Nobody ever does, you know. They only let me have crayons in here too.
Never mind, all will be reviled here soon.

The disappearing country

Well, here's a worrying trend. What happens when your country officially ceases to exist? For the second time in three months says the BBC.

I got no strings.

My new wireless broadband from Wanadoo arrived today, and I must say it's revolutionary. I now know how Pinocchio must have felt when he left his strings behind. Nice.

Deadlines

Finally finished submitting tax return using the inland revenue's online service. My God it was slow today. No doubt many millions of panic-stricken fools like me were desperate to complete their returns before the financial penalties started. Who knows what the load will be on the site in the next few days.
I don't remember working at the computer quite this late for some time; the last that springs to mind was writing the code for Mel Croucher's unique Deus ex Machina interactive film. The soundtrack of Frankie Howard, Ian Dury and Jon Pertwee echoed around me as I struggled to meet the C64 programming deadline. Happy days.