There are many good reasons why I shouldn't do this, but I'm going to anyway. Work has begun on this:

I've seen the cover art in development and it looks great - as soon as we have something that we know will happen, I'll post it. We mocked up a page today to make sure it was going to work in the same format as the horror book. It does and it looks something like this:

That, my friends is all I can give you until a few more weeks have gone by. It goes on sale 2nd August but as we get a little bit closer, I'll have a pre-order date when they will arrive in big boxes and start to be shipped out. I know I said it before when I did the horror book, but working on a project coming from a magazine publishers (as opposed to a book publisher) is insane. Instead of months and months of waiting, the two of us who are working on this (that's right - two of us) agree when it's complete, then it gets shipped to print and is back in a week to be pushed out to the world. It's hard and a little bit fraught, especially towards the end but more than worth it. If you're being a smart-ass and spot any mistakes in the page above, calm yourself. It's a rough and may change. I was illustrating a point.

Anyway, according to my calendar, there are three more to come after this in 2013. Be careful what you wish for - somebody just might give you licence to do it.

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I got nothing else for you today except to tell you I've been busy revamping the store here - I've brought it all back in house and it works great even though there are still a few tweaks to be done - as usual, the more I consider how it works, the more work there is to do. Insert smiley face with a slight grimace here if you wish.