Open message to you all. The date I have been given for the release of
the book is Oct 27. It will be available from my new website and
bookshops in the UK and USA and I believe Canada. The publisher is
Crowood Press.
The date of the website going live is: I do not know!
All I know is that it is in the finishing stages and I hope it will be
up and running later this week. When it is I will let you all know.
What I can tell you, is that, in fact it will never really be complete!
I intend to update it every few weeks to keep it fresh and lively.
There will be a discussion forum, a quarterly edition of PELPUP NEWS
21, (there will be a small annual subscription charge for this) there
is the puppetry shop, several sections about the history, a Pelham
Puppet parade, that will be added to as an ongoing project.
Our aim is to make it the Home of Pelham Puppets with pages that I hope
will interest collectors and part of it will be the section where the
new puppets and associated items, new book of plays, props scenery
etc., will be obtainable.
It will all happen in stages, not all at once. A huge amount of work
has gone into the whole project, I have had a great amount of support
from several people and, whilst I know, "you cannot please all the
people all of the time, we will try to please most people, most of the
time!"
If you think you are having a hard time waiting for all this to happen,
try and imagine what it is like for poor little ol' me!
Anyway, thank you all for your comments and for your interest in my
efforts, but I must add that several people have helped greatly with
this, it is not, and I will never claim it to be, one man's work.