Old timers will well recall the PV version of this story. Now it is refurbished, expanded, revised, and generally polished up for a new audience in a new world, and is out in the wild from CHILLWATER PRESS about now. Here's the press release: SIR MUMPHREY WILTON AND THE LOST CITY OF MYSTERY Award-winning author I.A. Watson's latest and most improbable novel. A desperate young woman must decode her murdered father’s journal... Impossible Nazi supermen hunt her across the globe... Ghouls haunt the subways of New York City... A forbidden sect exploits the fall of Hong Kong... A vampire stalks war-battered Malta’s crowded refugee tunnels... Ancient apes speak in the language of the gods... A mysterious pocketwatch alters time itself... This must be a case for SIR MUMPHREY WILTON, gentleman troubleshooter, ever-ready to smite the ungodly and save the day – if he can survive that long! "Sir Mumphrey Wilton and the Lost City of Mystery" ISBN-10: 1502438488 ISBN-13: 978-1502438485 Published by Chillwater Press Release date: October 2014 Retail Price: $13.50 from https://www.createspace.com/5008409 Kindle Edition: $2.99 from http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00O4PZJF8 Coming next: Dr Hal B. Harper and THE TRANSDIMENSIONAL TRAVEL COMPANY Really.

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congrads one more!!!!

Actually, you got the new book for free too. I e-mailed it out to a bunch of PV posters that I still have contact with including yourself, but the address I have for you is out of date and the message bounced back. If you want to let me have another address I can forward you a "review" pdf of the novel so you can see what happened to the story.

After all, you get named in the dedication.

IW

p_alarcon@hotmail.com

If any other old regular would like a .pdf review version of the book then let me know. This is the first time I've been able to send out things like this and the first time its really touched on my writing time here so heavily.

Just got the pdf..and went to see the Dedication asap..and it was sosooooo cute sto see sooo many fellow posters there...
Comments asap!!!
Thanks once more for keeping the board alive!!!!

Seriously, I really like this edition. It's got a matte cover rather than gloss, which I think looks and feels better than the usual fingerprint-gathering U.S. shiny covers which seem to be a preferred option. It's on cream rather than bright-white-recycled paper, giving it that 40s feel. The cover gets away from that "put the title on the top 1/4 of the cover like a comic book" thing, integrating font with images. The dropped caps are a nice touch that doesn't translate into the Kindle version. Even the maps look nice. A great argument for paper copies.

My previous favourites were Blackthorn: Dynasty of Mars because it has a great Adam Diller cover, and the solid-feeling hardback version of The Spider: Extreme Prejudice even though it spelt my name wrong. Interestingly, the end-November-scheduled The Transdimensional Travel Company also has a Diller cover and the same production choices at the Mumph book (given that it's in the same continuity), so we'll have to see.

Anybody who feels they want to hoist a review to Amazon or Goodreads or anywhere else is encouraged to do so. I'm told by publishers who know about this kind of thing that strong reader reviews offer a discernable sales spike. This is why there are companies out there now selling "sock-puppet" (fake poster) reviews as sales tools.

Given who the story was originally written for it only seemed fair. I browsed the original replies pages to see who had been the main respondents. For example, there was an impassioned argument from a certain Yo regarding whether Miss Canterbury should have just gone for it with Mumph in a train boxcar!




We're pretty much a museum these days. I'm under pressure to take down the Hooded Hood's Homepage too, since it "dilutes my brand", but I'm resisting that for now.

I'll try and get a review in - but reviews are not my strong point.

However, if you really need sock puppets I have just taken delivery of a set of fluorescent orange bedsocks (actually football socks), which I can adapt at a moment's notice.

Old-timers here will perhaps be unsurprised to learn that the fourth volume in my Robin Hood trilogy is now out. More precisely, a fourth book in the same series, set some time after the actual three-part story before, is now available. I can't help myself. Here's the blurb: ROBIN HOOD: FORBIDDEN LEGEND When the law no longer serves justice, justice must be an outlaw. By winter of 1191 King Richard the Lionheart was eighteen months gone from England on crusade. Those noble counsellors he’d left to administer his kingdom had squabbled then warred with each other while Richard’s younger brother and heir, Prince John “Lackland”, fanned the conflict. Armed barons and rich office-holders took advantage of the times to do whatsoever they pleased. Yet there was resistance. Men without rights or liberty whispered that in deep Sherwood Forest a company of free outlaws robbed from the rich and gave to the poor, mocking the powerful and bringing hope to the powerless. The cruel Sheriff of Nottingham was unable to catch them. Mighty Prince John had nightmares about them. Secret stories were told of these men, and wheresoever these outlaw tales were spoken rebellion flourished. It was forbidden to speak of Robin Hood, yet everyone knew his name.. "Robin Hood: Freedom's Outlaw" ISBN-10: 0692317759 ISBN-13: 978-0692317754 Published by Airship 27 Release date: October 2014 Retail Price: $16.14 Kindle Edition available