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An Embarrassment Of Tinned Meat (Seven Tiny New Stories)
Thanks for joining me here, away from the noise of the Substack app, on my renovated newsletter. It's pretty much the same as the old one, except I'm keeping everything unpaywalled for now, and have set up a selection of subscriber options, from £1 per month,
A Great School
“I saw a frog!” a girl or boy might say. So that day we would learn about frogs, and draw, or even make, frogs.
Ten Basic But Important Rules For Authors
1. Never expect anyone to read your book, even if you sent it to them for free. Do all you can to keep yourself in a non-presumptive state that will lead to a feeling of pleasant surprise if a fellow human reads your book. 2. Don’t let people whose
Remembering A Very Special Cat (2001-2021)
Ralph