[Theepistle] Future Saint books

[David]

I will gladly buy them and promote them on my podcast (I did a piece about the Saint on the last show - mainly lifted from TheSaint.org).

regards
David Drage
www.dialpforpulp.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Ian Dickerson <ian.dickerson at gmail.com>
To: theepistle at fascicle.org
Sent: Friday, 3 October, 2008 22:46:25
Subject: [Theepistle] Future Saint books

 
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 UKare 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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