jtpmedieval.bsky.social
Restless medievalist • Professor at St Andrews, Scotland • Apocalypse/ Nature/ Science/ Medicine c. 500-c. 1000
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Possibly less dreamy in reality once the politics and committees kick in
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Glad you liked it!
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Oh yes - give me the old school hardbacks any day! Hopefully for my next book (different publisher, different game).
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Just an accident of the production process
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I like it too
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Production is a shadowy world. I don't think most people realise how many academic paperbacks are printed off at Amazon warehouses to keep costs low...
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Think it's just a misalignment at the printing press. Apart from the one that's wildly out (which I claimed as my own) the others are about the same but it's clearly not uniform.
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Chappell wins so hard it's hard to think of something else
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To add: I think it's very important to have an agent if you want to deal with a good trade press
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Brum just cannot help itself (sigh)
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The phrasing shows I listen to the wonderful @carinevanrhijn.bsky.social
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He's tricksy though, that Gregory
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Yes, he's had to put up with me not quite getting things for nearly 30 years now so there's a kind but firm impatience
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Hah - that was Simon L
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Hehe. My next book is on the Carolingians. It feels surprisingly gloomy and bloody compared to the Merovingians.
(Not the edited volume with @laurysarti.bsky.social on Carolingian Religion - that's probably going to be comparatively jolly).
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Definitely some of that going on
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You should see our house. (My wife is also a historian of medieval France so medieval France books EVERYWHERE).