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| This is a chronological order of updatement and a few press releases. To read Updates or Fforde News Fflashes older then six months, click on the relevant link. My Index page is updated at the same time.  | ||
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| 27th April 09 | +++ Fforde News Fflash +++
Original Fforde artwork is now for sale on eBay! As reported below, The Book Depository is selling original artwork, and it can now be found by following the links: Book Depository eBay Seller's page Bookmark Number 1 Bookmark Number 2 Bookmark Number 3 Bookmark Number 4 The auction ends on the 3rd May 2009. +++ Fforde News Fflash Ends +++ | |
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| 23rd April 09 |  +++ Fforde News Fflash +++
BUY Original Fforde artwork! The Book Depository has been running a promotion to ask authors and illustrators to design bookmarks to be auctioned for Downsed International, a Down's Syndrome charity. I did four in a 'joiner' kind of way. The details of the bookmarks and the forthcoming auction can be seen at the Book Depository page, and the site for the auctions (when up) is at the Book Depository's eBay site +++ Fforde News Fflash Ends +++ | |
| 19th April 09 | New from Toad News international, your favourite News website: Cleaner runs amok at the BBC:
John Humphry's condition
described as 'shiny'
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| 12th April 09 | New from Toad News international, your favourite News website: Six out of seven dwarves
not Happy, survey shows.
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| 6th April 09 | New from Toad News international, your favourite News website: Kellogg's 'Standard K' withdrawn after dismal sales figures.
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| 30th Mar 09 | New from Toad News international, your favourite News website: Privacy groups cautious over Google's new 'Front Room View'.
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| 24th Mar 09 | New from Toad News international, your favourite News website: Report shows Amateur Photographers more boring since advent of digital
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| 15th Mar 09 | New from Toad News international, your favourite News website: Radnorshire Infant to Solve World Snot Deficit
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| 2nd Mar 09 | New from Toad News international, your favourite News website: Student's function to 'test
education system' challenged
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| 27th Feb 09 | Updated Page: Grand Goliath Garage Giveaway Unseemly scrabble to bag all the TN2 proofs leaves us sold out of this edition. (A bit like a real Garage Sale, to be honest) Books parcelled out as equitably as possible. Other editions still available. | |
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| 24th Feb 09 | +++ Fforde News Fflash +++
Shades of Grey publication delayed until December 2009. Yes, sorry about this folks, but my 150,000 word tome is not quite there yet. Almost, but not quite. The US aim to publish on the 28th December 2009, and for the UK to follow suit in January 2010. Tours in both territories. By that time One of our Thursdays is Missing will be an advanced state, but we don't have a publication date for that yet, but will hope for August 2010. +++ Fforde News Fflash Ends +++ | |
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| 20th Feb 09 | Updated: Appearances. Possible appearances at the Greenbelt Festival at Cheltenham. More details TBA.
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| 20th Feb 09 | New from Romanus Toadus, your favourite 68AD European news websiteTerrorist group threatens stability of Amorican Coast
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| 19th Feb 09 | Updated: Appearances. Jasper is on some dreadful painkillers that has him currently thinking he is the love-child of Marie Curie and Napoleon, and thus is not going to Microcon this year. Apologies to all concerned.
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| 18th Feb 09 | Updated: Appearances. Like a fool, Jasper has injured his back moving furniture (no, wait - make that 'injured while defending the honour of free speech and liberty') and may not be able to make it to Microcon on the WE of 21st-22nd Feb.
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| 16th Feb 09 | New from Toad News international, your favourite News website: Male-funded study offers startling new insight into illness Common Cold 'worse for men' top male scientists agree
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| 14th Feb 09 | +++ Fforde News Fflash +++
UK Fourth Bear 'B' Format 7th Reprint +++ | |
| 13th Feb 09 | +++ Fforde News Fflash +++
The children's communication charity 'I CAN' is asking people to adopt words from the Collins Dictionary (The OED requiered an act of parliament, apparently, so wasn't suitable.) You adopt a word for a year and get a certificate and stuff. I bought 'Linoleum' for £20, which is a bargain, as I hope to be able to hold the world's Linoleum factories to trademark ransome in a fanatical attempt to dominate the flooring industry. Or something. Anyhow, here's the website: Adopt a Word and Help a Kid Who Doesn't Read Good +++ Fforde News Fflash Ends +++ | |
| 13th Feb 09 | +++ Fforde News Fflash +++
The indexing method has changed on my books again, and as you will see above, has many sub-indexes leading to lists of pages available. We may see some more changes in the next few weeks as I give the site a bit of a makeover. +++ Fforde News Fflash Ends +++ | |
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| 5th Feb 09 | Updated: Appearances. Possible appearance at the British Fantasy Society's conference in September 2009.
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| 31st Jan 09 | New from Toad News international, your favourite News website, some of which may be unsensationalised, and vaguely true: This week: How much do we really know about 19th Century gentleman archeologists? Archaeologists study archaeologists
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Just recently the Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature staff have announced a project called The Lost World Read which is all about encouraging people to read Conan Doyle's seminal dino-discovering tome, The Lost World. As part of this campaign, there are many tie-ins, free book distribution, online fun, events and what-have-you. Part of this celebration is a project called the The Lost Book , which is an animated story, and as part of this, the public are invited to collaboratively write a sequel to The Lost World, chapter by chapter. Fforde has penned the set-up to this 'lost' book, so why not have a look to see if you would like to contribute? | |
| 28th Jan 09 | +++ Fforde News Fflash +++
The 'What's New? page of jasper's website recently fell into a closed loop 'What's New' updating procedure whereby it constantly updated itself about the fact that it had been updated, then reported that updating. Thankfully, after bringing most of Europe's servers to a standstill with eight trillion updates, it has finally been rectified. Three updates have been left for historical reasons. +++ Fforde News Fflash Ends +++ | |
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Reprint Update: Something Rotten: 14th Reprint First Among Sequels: 6th Reprint The Big Over Easy: 12th Reprint +++ Fforde News Fflash Ends +++ | |
| 27th Jan 09 | +++ Fforde News Fflash +++
If 'Jasper Fforde' is the answer, what is the question? Yes, once more Jasper is the answer in a primetime quiz show. First it was The Weakest Link, then Mastermind, and now University Challenge. Oh, the fame, the fame. If I can make it on to Desert Island Discs or be a celebrity guest on The Archers, I can die easy knowing that my life has been fulfilled. (Oh, and by the way, being an answer on Mastermind wa the best; I was a specialist subject and my man got to talk about it afterwards with The Humphreys.) +++ Fforde News Fflash Ends +++ | |
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| 19th Jan 09 | +++ Fforde News Fflash +++
UK Eyre Affair Reprint Jasper's first book currently enters its 45th reprint - Hoorah! +++ | |
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| 11th Jan 09 | +++ Fforde News Fflash +++
Fforde pops his facebook cherry. For anyone who uses the social networking site of 'Facebook', you might be interested that Jasper has finally figured out how it works, and may be using it to spread more nonsense, apperances, that sort of thing. So if you want to be sent updates and don't want to use the (mildly inefficient) guestbook on this site, please ask to be a friend, and Lo! it shall be so. +++ | |
| 12th Jan 09 | +++ Fforde News Fflash +++
Many thanks for all the kind birthday greetings, and various offers of an elephant (none of them real, I hasten to add). Much appreciated. +++ | |
| For more updates and old press releases,
please go to my What's New? Archive or Fforde News Fflash Archive pages. |
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