GRANNY BARKES FELL IN WOOLWORTHS ... sorry folks, another delay
Granny Barkes
Granny Barkes Fell in Woolworths was scheduled to be published on 1st February 2022. This will now be delayed over copyright complications with regard to Johnny Bluenote's paintings which are to be used in the book.
Johnny Bluenote is a long-term friend of Gene. He is an exceptionally talented painter and photographer. The American abstract artist, Franz Kline, has been a big influence on Johnny Bluenote's work.
Abstract by Franz Kline
GENE
As you have said [so, so tediously often], Gene, this is about as convincing as Andrew Neil's hairline.
ReplyDeleteIf I could be arsed, it would be interesting to find out at what level your pathology enables you to believe in this ridiculous fantasy. Your using "Johnny Bluenote" [one of the many sock-puppets you operated on TES Opinion] suggests that you are aware of the total bogusness of the whole "Granny Barkes" saga.
Moreover only someone who knew absolutely nothing about the process of publishing could come up with a story as feeble as this. Settling matters of copyright for illustrations [and a very tedious business it is] is a priority which has to be resolved before a single page of a book is formatted. The idea that it would be left as late as this is laughably nonsensical. It comes to something when you can't even concoct a convincing lie: only a "writer" as bad as you could do it.
When are you going to admit that "Granny Barkes Shat herself in C and A" never got beyond the pathetic alphabet soup you compiled ten years ago?
Detters I am looking into the future. It is some sunny morning during the summer of 2022. I see you having just left Waterstones. You are seated in a cafe overlooking the Tyne. You have in front of you an overflowing cafe latte. You reach into your briefcase and take out a copy of your newly purchased GRANNY BARKES FELL IN WOOLWORTHS. You admire the elegant cover. You flick through the pages. You say to yourself sotte voce, "My God! Gene has done it!"
ReplyDeleteDear God, you really are psychotic. Literature's Alan Partridge.
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