Wednesday, 23rd September 2009
In December 2008 our Head of Security Goldie suffered a "Doggie Stroke" which left him unstable and a bit confused. His condition deteriorated slowly but gradually until yesterday when the end came. He was buried next to his mother. He was a very good friend and he will be very much missed.Tuesday, 16th March 2009
Jack has been busy working on the website so that it will comply with the appropriate international standards. It's an unsung task that takes a long time to do but it will be worthwhile in the end. He was delighted to find recently that although he built the site from scratch in 1999 it works well on the new Apple iPod Touch.
He has also set up an "Other_Books" section of the website where we will publicise books by our own authors who have taken the self-publication route for new works, and where we will also provide a platform for titles by other writers whose work measures up to our standards and which we feel needs some additional help to come to the notice of the reading public.
We wish all our readers, authors and suppliers a very Happy New Year and hope it will be a Healthy, Happy and Prosperous one for you. The latter is looking a bit tricky at the moment but let us hope for the best and try to support our local businesses through the hard times.
Progress on updating the site is slow but if there are books you would like and you would prefer to pay by PayPal rather then sending a sterling cheque drawn on a UK bank we can now deal with this. Just send us an e-mail with the the list of book titles you would like and your physical address and we will e-mail you an invoice via PayPal. This can be quick and easy, we dealt with an enquiry from Finland and had the book in the post within about 3 hours. It has the added advantage that we can charge you the appropriate postage (we only charge postage at cost) rather than guess and return any significant excess.
Times are difficult for the book trade at the moment, especially for the little people, and so we have decided that we will have an area on our site where we will give a web presence to books we feel could do with a helping hand. We have done that for some time where our own authors have published work we could not deal with elsewhere, such as
Sheila Wright and Carl Leckey. In most cases we will have copies of the books available if you want to buy them together with others of our books or via PayPal otherwise you can order them directly from the authors using the information provided on the page about the book.