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 publishing in the next couple of months. I'm thinking it might be best to have a little gap between publication, as we're coming up for holiday season and during August and September many potential customers will be (a) on holiday; or (b) paying their credit cards off after their holiday. Back in 2011, when I put out Eagles Over the Western Front in three volumes (I was more cautious back then) there was a six week gap between each release. The Mytek books were meant to have a month between volumes 1&2 and 3, but printing problems meant that 1&2 came out late, and 3 crept out in September, by which time I was designing the next book (the AIR ACE COMPANION), so I waited until November to release volume 4 to benefit from getting the two books sent to me in one go.
Because of the Topsy-turvy way the latter was published, I haven't a clue whether it helped or not. So I'll try again, with perhaps a six week gap; that means the folk who want the book immediately can spread the cost over a couple of credit card bills, while others who are happy to buy the books as a pair won't have too long to wait.
While I'm waiting for proofs and restocks to arrive, I have been working on writing some introductory bits for the new books, which I'll get into a little closer to publication.
There isn't really any other news. We've had our first two small cucumbers of the year and we'll soon have a few tomatoes. We're a step closer to making the utility room a little cooler—it has a clear plastic roof and large windows on two sides which means it gets incredibly hot, even with the door open as the outside temperature is almost as hot. As this is where we have the fridge and freezer, we need to do something before they conk out like the freezer cabinets in our local Co-Op.
The solution (we hope) is camouflage netting, which we will be putting over the roof to stop some of the heat getting in. I saw this mentioned in a newspaper article and a large net is not that expensive (we paid £25 for one 2 x 5 metres (about 6½ by 16½ feet).
I think that's all the news that's fit to print. Keep an eye over on Facebook for news of when I'm going to start taking pre-orders, or I'll let you know here next week. At the moment I'm pleased to say that my prediction that we'd start taking orders next Friday seems to be panning out!
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