Saint Beckett

Cat Party for Australian buyers

A friend kindly pointed out that you can mail order the Cat Party book I contributed to, from Blackwalls for AU $32.95, in the UK in June. It’s just that Microcosm has to charge US$26 in postage which is almost double what this costs.

I will look at local book shops, but I’m not sure they will stock this, but will let you know if I see it anywhere.

Cat Party

Cat Party the book out now

This arrived in the post just this week. I have crap in a real book. A real book put together by the great Katie Haegele. A book about cats.

Lots of great writing and pictures from people about their cats.

I’m not expecting anyone down in Australia to buy it. Sadly market forces make the postage prohibitively expensive. I don’t blame them, I blame the world. Oh well.

Other countries I imagine you get a much better deal. Especially the US of course.

But if you do want to spend $50Aud on postage for a book that’s about $30Aud. Here’s the link.

The witches …..

…..in the sticks.

I’m trying to see if I can use this AI image to make something. But it’s probably already better than anything I can do.

For better or worse….

…I finished my books for the Easter show.

Top. The War of the Worlds, a newly case bound multi section book, with the textbook from Binders Edition. I painted new endpapers and cover illustrations, and free hand tooled the cover design. And hand sewn end bands.

Middle. A repair and rebind of Mrs. Beeton’s Shilling Cookbook. It was missing the covers and first few pages, so I made and designed new covers and endpapers by hand colouring prints of some of the plates inside the book. The book is sewn on cords and laced into the cover boards, 1/4 Leather bound, with my dodgy hand drawn blocking.

Bottom. Pictures of Sound, which is a booklet and CD from Dust To Digital. They have a digital download. Being in Australia it’s really expensive to get their things here, so I figured I would print my own booklets and make my own special editions. This is a stab sewn textbook with simple printed paper covered board for the covers, with inlaid prints of the CD cover from and back. Endpapers are made from images from the booklet.