More reviews – and a big night out
31 August 2012
We're getting more reviews of The White Goddess: An Encounter. And they're good ones.
First, here's a thoughtful and intelligent take on the book from Max Cairnduff. A few highlights:
August 2012
Now available on Kindle
27 August 2012
The White Goddess: An Encounter is now available on the Kindle store.
We at Galley Beggar have concerns about this. I (which is to say, Sam) for one, am convinced that Amazon are bullies intent on destroying publishing, on building up a monopoly and on preventing writers from every being able to make an honest living again.
Impassioned!
26 August 2012
The first review of The White Goddess: An Encounter has appeared in the Observer. It's a good one too!
The familiar title comes from the book about poetic myth by Robert Graves, the "Grand-uncle" of the author ("Great is for steamships and railway lines, don't you think? Grand is for fathers and uncles, and Russian dukes, of course!"), around whom this fictionalised – but only slightly – memoir revolves.
So much going on!
24 August 2012
There's so much going on today that I might not actually have time to update the website.
I've got a flood of material to hit you with soon though...
Including amazing press, physical books, imminent ebooks...
It's very exciting!
Really real
24 August 2012
The book's are actually real. They are actually here. I have actually held one in my hands. So has Elly. And so has Henry, as this film shows:
ebooks
16 August 2012
The paper books of The White Goddess: An Encounter are still delayed. We're expecting them early next week. So technology has won the race! As of today, thanks to our lovely typesetters, we now have finished ebooks... We'll be releasing them in the store very soon.
And My Elvis Blackout will follow very soon after them.
A message from Henry
14 August 2012
Just had an email from Henry:
F*CK!!!
Books delayed again - it was our book that broke tha machine - it's too big! So they're sending it off somewhere else to fold it which will delay until friday or monday.
Keep you posted.
Well, darn. At least we broke a big machine…
Coming soon! Really damn soon!
13 August 2012
The White Goddess: An Encounter is currently at the printers. We were expecting copies to arrive tomorrow, in fact. But today we were told that the machine that folds the covers has broken. What the hell does that mean? We don't know! But it makes them seem more real, somehow. They are physical things that must be bent and shaped and folded and moulded – and we'll get them on Thursday. All that is very exciting.