Medlar Comfits: "Since when have decent publishers had to advertise for authors?"

02 July 2011

"Since when have decent publishers had to advertise for authors?"

A few days ago there was either an hilarious, a hilarious, or a hillarius (depending upon your publisher) exchange between Keith Brooke and a business that calls itself a publisher.
Read it here: Fair deal for authors? You judge

Inspired
This is the latest blurb from the business:

"An autobiographical story of a modern day Warlock, living in Londons East End.Poetic stories of his adventures, are tied together with retrospectives on their conception, so join the Wiccan way of witchcraft and discover his path." (sic)

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from Oddness/Forbidden Futures

"Her love for the lives and fortunes of the small is most evident to me in her dog-centered stories. “The Dog Who’d Been Dead”, “Shaking Heaven’s Fleas”, and “Bones from Heaven” involve the afterlife of dogs—where they go, what concerns them, how they feel about the humans with whom they are so closely linked, and their own relationship with d/Death. Tambour beautifully enters into the minds and souls of dogs here, and if nothing else, her concern for the little ones, human creation’s overlooked ones, makes her work and this collection in particular immensely rewarding." -- Jeremy Brett, The SFF Librarian Reviews, Ancillary Review of Books, August 2023

from Infinity Plus

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