[Theepistle] Future Saint books

[Ian Dickerson]

I'm going to let you into a secret,

 

There are plans for more Saint books. Take yer pick as to whether you'd like
more reprints or new adventures (be they 21st century or period)-there are
plans for both. 

 

But publishing is a business. And businesses have to make money, otherwise,
well, they go out of business. And one reason Saint books stopped in the
1980s was because they weren't making money.

 

The only way to see more Saint adventures in print is for us all to do our
best to make sure these anthologies sell well. Paraphrasing what Leslie said
about The Saint Sees It Through.

 

"Give them to your friends for Christmas. Have the pages separated and use
them to repair your living-room, instead of the ordinary wallpaper which is
so hard to get. Tear them up and use them for confetti. Give them to your
children for cutting out paper dolls. Use them for door stops, for squashing
cockroaches, for holding down the lid of the pressure cooker. Mount stamp
collections in them. Soak the ink out of the pages and boil it down to make
your own shoe polish. Let Junior chew up the pages to make spit balls. Use
them for bait to lure the termites out of the walls so that you can get them
with the DDT. Break them up and use them for kindling. Split the sheets with
a razor and use them for Kleenex. Keep several copies handy for throwing at
cats on the back fence, or to climb up on to reach the top shelves of the
closet. Do anything you like with them, but for Chris'sake buy thousands of
copies so."

 

.that we can get more Saint adventures in print.

 

Seriously, Hodders are giving these books a piddlingly small print run and
have virtually no budget to promote them. But if they don't sell, then Saint
books in the UK are pretty well doomed. I've done my best to spread the word
to as many relevant websites as possible but I'm open to suggestions. If you
can think of ways these books can be promoted-at no cost-or people/web sites
who should be told about them, then spread the word!

 

Ian

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