So having obtained a new website through the good offices of several kind people, I thought the time had come to modernise its address and make it shorter and more memorable. Hence, Pembury moved the various pages, including news, literary, project and vision; about Margaret; books, each with its brief synopsis; home page; and a soon to arrive new page, all onto the simple address of http://www.margaret-bowker.com
An intriguing part of this list of new address contents is the new page. It is presently in progress and is a page about the new book, Julia, which, as we speak, is going through its last stages. Julia is some one hundred and eight thousand words long; average for me. The Interloper was about one hundred and twenty thousand words and therefore, more costly to put on websites, even though it is rewritten and smoother. Thus if I have to put Julia on Lulu or some other self-publish because mainstream still haven’t got the courage, it won’t be hideously expensive, just unusually. You would think that when artswork gets around the world on domestic sites, China, Hong Kong, India, Australia, the Middle East , Canada, America and Europe etc, that someone would see that if the work were produced at a normal price, it might actually sell on a larger scale. I mean about a thousand books a year, which, I understand is the average number for literary books these days. It doesn’t sound much of a risk to me and one could always off set it against encouraging artwork. But people could afford to buy it and not have to rent, or download and print it out when they had the time and paper.
I don’t think it’s unnatural to want to see the work out there at a reasonable price. Apropos of that, there are 4 copies of Farina House, up on play.com, signed and at a two pounds cheaper than the host site, including postage. That’s all they will let you reduce. Sorry. But Pembury tried putting it up on E bay and people complained they couldn’t find the advert. So it’s play.com – Farina House for those who toiled through the interminable pages and found it had gone.
The new website page, called Julia, will have lots of interesting bits of information, such as how and where I found the inspiration for the book, what motivated me, where I went to get ideas for some of the locations, ie the houses. I love substantial old houses and visit them as often as I can. One house inspired Mrs Hammond’s heraldic beasts in The Interloper. So keep an eye on the website. The new page will be up soon.
