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  1. Our online store is down. We're not quite sure what happened, but we're fixing it. Please spread the word. For now, we're on amazon. Thanks!
  2. Feliz Navidad people! Here's to a fantastic 2010 - may it be fizzy, absolutely popping with beautiful language!!!
  3. Meanwhile, in the season of goodwill, don't forget to vote for Sefi Atta in the People's Book Prize: http://bit.ly/sefi1
  4. Borders were the first chain to take us seriously and order our titles centrally. They also hosted many readings for us and kept us warm :)
  5. OK, we're closing up shop for the year. Just want to say although Borders owe us money, we're grateful to them...
  6. Things to do at Christmas: nominate someone's work for the Ted Hughes Award - http://tinyurl.com/ych2cmq Nice move, Carol!
  7. @MileStyle I feel like I've been robbed - I bought a book (fiction) at 60% off just yesterday!!
  8. Oh, in pictures - NYT has another of our authors: http://bit.ly/8RGfDJ - the first was Ainsley Burrows: http://bit.ly/4L45q1 - photogenes :)
  9. @Pretty_Poet what do you mean?
  10. OK, what to do - the accounts/taxes, the website revamp or some MSS reading? I guess the one that costs the most if we fail to deliver!!
  11. RT @nextread: RT @vintagebooks: So does social networking kill the author mystique? An intriguing article over at the Huffington Post ht ...
  12. @InuaEllams I think 'Death and the King's HorsemAn' should be done by Clint Eastwood - from the line of fire, he understands sacrifice :)
  13. RT @UChicagoPress: The editor of The Child on the Tiger Woods scandal and and its link to human psychology http://tinyurl.com/yetvwgn
  14. Anyway, back to books: what is it with this Christmas manuscript onslaught? Have people been let off their jobs to go and dream of writing?
  15. And production just got a bottle of wine from the printers - they've made a killing from us this year!!
  16. Thornton's 'Metropolitan' chocolate to be precise :) The offer's on our store site - http://www.flippedeye.net/store
  17. We just sent off our 30th box of Thornton's Chocolate for our £30 Xmas offer (the first sent directly from Thornton's site) - fine numbers!
  18. Some poetry by Paul Lyalls on The Cultural Pick (Plectrum): http://tinyurl.com/yaxqdze - enjoy, then buy the book :)
  19. We're flirting with the People's Bk Prize again - this time w/ Noma Award winning 'News From Home' - http://bit.ly/sefi1 - be sweet, VOTE :)
  20. Arrrgh! The scale of misuse of 'bring' is so bad that soon people will be trying to order 'bringaway' instead of 'takeaway'!!