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March 13, 2008 • 10:02 pm 4

Grandad’s book is coming!!!*

So myself and Grandad has a wonderful chat on the phone the other evening. His Herself was chatting along in the background offering helpful hints and advice. I hope some of you are wondering how Grandad is doing with his book, what with Twenty’s book doing so well.
The answer is:

Damn Fine Stuff

But unlike me, ya’ll will just have to wait till February 2009 to read it! Sorry.

Posted in consultation with someone many of you will know
Eoin

* In February 2009!

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March 13, 2008 • 9:08 pm 0

Frankly, this is just sad news for the Friday Project

Snowbooks had more of the story and then this in Publishing News:

HARPERCOLLINS AND RANDOM House were this week vying to acquire selected author and book assets of publishing house The Friday Project which is expected to go into liquidation at a creditors meeting on 31 March.
Panos Eliades, of insolvency firm Panos Eliades Franklin, told PN on Wednesday: “We have been negotiating with HarperCollins over which authors they want to take over, and today Random House have made contact and they are now also competing for certain authors. We are happy to dispose of the assets on a piecemeal basis, but we are not approaching any other publishers at this stage.”

This sounds so unpleasant for everyone, most unfortunate!
Eoin

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March 11, 2008 • 11:23 pm 0

One More for the Links

WE TELL STORIES

It must be hard being so cool over at Penguin Digital & Six to Start!

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March 11, 2008 • 11:13 pm 0

The Irish B&B Cookbook gets some advance press

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In Weenatchee: which is here
The Irish B&B Cookbook is one of our upcoming titles and frankly it’s a fantastic cookbook based on Ann Mulligan’s recipes from her B&B An Bohreen

Here’s the scoop

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March 11, 2008 • 10:09 pm 0

Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 11/03/2008

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Flickr Photo of the day: From Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
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An Adoption Agency for Orphaned Works [Hat Tip Adam]
Here

More on what they have planned for us at Tor
Here

Ficlets won a web award at SXWS [Hat Tip John Scalzi]
Here

Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire is due out on 1 April, David Maybury has his already!
Here

Speaking of which, Skullduggery has a nice site attached to it
Here

A pretty decent speech by Gail Rebuck, chief executive of the Random House Group.
Here

A lot of stuff today!
Eoin

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