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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’m going to let you into a secret,</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>There are plans for more Saint books. Take yer pick as to
whether you’d like more reprints or new adventures (be they 21<sup>st</sup>
century or period)—there are plans for both. </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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 <i><span style='font-style:italic'>The Saint Sees It Through…</span></i></span></font></p>
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<p class=Foreword style='text-indent:0cm'><font size=1 face=Palatino><span
style='font-size:9.0pt'>“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 h</span></font>andy
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…”</p>
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font-family:Palatino'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>…</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>that we can get more Saint adventures
in </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>print.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Seriously, Hodders are giving these books a piddlingly small
print run and have virtually no budget to promote them.</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> But if they
don</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>’</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>t sell, then Saint books in the </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>UK</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> are pretty
well doomed.</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> I</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>’</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ve done my best to
spread the word to as many relevant websites as possible but I</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>’</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>m open to
suggestions. If you can think of ways these books can be promoted</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>—</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>at no cost</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>—</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>or people/web
sites who should be told about them, then spread the word!</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Ian</span></font></p>
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