Although this belongs to my author/editor blog, I might as well share it here as well.
A pleasant surprise awaited me at the Brighton Beach Post Office today. It was a copy of the published version of The Long Slumber by James Walker Hastie which I edited last year, sent to me by the author. Until I received it, I didn’t know that it was now in print, and as always it was a thrill to see the finished product of something one has helped to create.
The book was written in Scotland with a mythical setting perhaps in the East. The cover was done in Essex. It was edited in South Africa, and made in USA, My copy was directed to Brighton Beach in Vancouver, Canada, before finally coming to the Durban one. At least they didn’t try the sandy bit of Brighton, UK, or the Melbourne version!
There is, as may be seen, a description of being ‘a journey of enlightenment’. My copy certainly had…
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I’m surprised it arrived.
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Particularly given the increasing ineptitude of our own postal service.
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heh heh. Amazing the places a book can go via the post office. Makes your copy that much more interesting tho!
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Pity one can’t post oneself. A world tour for the price of only one leg of the trip!
It is certainly remarkable that it finally made it. I wonder how much of Canada it saw?
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Brighton beach, Canada. I thought it was the original. 🙂
(Which I visited in July. Bloody wind) 🙂
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The one here also gives that problem, but it may be due to the local curries.
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I will pass. 🙂
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That does, too – sometimes with too much enthusiasm.
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Hence the expression “Gone with the wind”?
I never thought about the Brontë’s in that perspective…
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