Steve
I started taking orders for THE SHRINKER on Friday, but that meant posting the page on the Bear Alley Books blog last thing on Thursday night and the first order came in at 1:13 in the morning. That's quick off the blocks for any of my books!That said, sales have been a bit slow, which I kind of...
Steve
OK, folks. Fire up your Paypal accounts, clutch your credit cards and get ready for THE SHRINKER!!!The second proof arrived during the week and it looks great. A couple of tweaks I made after seeing the first proof have printed correctly and I've had to make one correction to the second proof. But...
Steve
I'm still waiting on the delivery of my second proof for THE SHRINKER, but I know it's on its way and hopefully will be here on Monday, which means that, if it's OK, I'll launch the pre-orders next week. Fingers crossed.In the meantime, I'm deep into the next pair of books that Bear Alley will be...
Steve
I'm in that hinterland between working on a book and waiting for the final jigsaw piece to arrive, namely the second proof that tells me everything is OK and I can order a full print-run. The temptation is to do nothing, especially in this heat. We're still getting into the low thirties which is...
Steve
After last week's announcement that the next book from Bear Alley will be THE SHRINKER I have very little news. The proof arrived, looked good, I made a couple of minor changes and I'll be ordering a second proof. After that I'll be taking the usual "early bird" orders ahead of official...
Steve
After the excitement and socializing of last week, it has been a very quiet week. I promised myself that I'd take a couple of days off after such a hectic weekend at the Comic Swap Meet (scroll down for a report on that). I sold some books, so the first job was to do a stock take and order up some...
Steve
The latest Commando and British Weekly Comic Swap Meet took place on Saturday. June 20, at Wolstanton Methodist Church in (the clue's in the name) Wolstanton, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, although it is known amongst the organisers as the Stoke swapmeet, as Stoke-on-Trent is nearby.Last year, we...
Steve
Good evening... yes, I'm posting this Thursday night, because I'm not going to be around on Friday morning to cross-post this to Facebook (my one social media outlet... I haven't embraced Instagram or TikTok and I no longer post on Twitter, buy Teslas or launch satellites through SpaceX—I don't...
Steve
Between last week's exciting trips to the pub(s) and next week's trips to Colchester, Southend and Stoke, I've had a dull but productive week. Yes, it's back to the back-breaking job of cleaning up artwork.Not back-breaking really, but I hunch up and I'm making delicate movements with the mouse to...
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I've spent most of the week doing a deep dive into independent comic publishers outside of London, as the paper restrictions that gripped the UK during and after WWII meant that publishers could produce only limited print runs of titles, and these could sometimes be sold entirely in London and the...