Island Tales, Soft Launch

Island Tales, Soft Launch

At my Dark Tales show at Carvel Lane Coffee House in Cowes — a great venue and one I hope to return too as soon as we can fix a date — I did a “soft (re)launch” of the first two booklets in the Island Tales storynotes series: A Legend of Godshill, and A Legend of Puckaster Cove*.

I had previously printed a few copies of these on-demand using Lulu, but I’ve modified my production route (abut which I’ll post a blog post another day, maybe), and moved to Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing).

This is still print on demand, but it’s a bit cheaper, and also hooks into Amazon online sales and Kindle publishing

The first two installments in this Island Tales series build on tales penned by Abraham Elder.

  • A Legend of Godshill reproduces Elder’s version of the tale as well as my take on it, Percy Stone’s lay, excerpts from 19th century tourist guides, and a biographical note on Abraham Elder;

  • A Legend of Puckaster Cove includes Elder’s original version of the tale, something approximating my first retelling of it a couple or more years ago, and some historical notes that once again pull on 19th century travel guides to the Island.

Whenever I do a show in future, I’ll try to bring a copy or two of the booklets along, at a discounted price. But they’re also up on Amazon:

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