Easter eggs, fine wine and prize-nominated books.

Published: Sun, 04/17/22

Goody and Grant newsletter

Iain: Hello {{ subscriber.first_name | capitalize() or "friend" }} and a happy Easter / Pesach / Ramadan / Malbec World Day to you.

Heide: Malbec World Day?

Iain: Apparently so. 17^th April is the official day for celebrating the finest of Argentinian wines.

Heide: Some people don’t need an excuse to celebrate with wine, do they?

Iain: I’m saying nothing.

Heide: Speaking of special annual events, we went to London Book Fair last week.

Iain: We did. More than that, we were there because the first book in the Sam Applewhite series, Sealfinger, was nominated for a prestigious Selfie award. Those are annual awards given out for independently published books in the UK by the book trade journal BookBrunch.

Heide: And it gave us an excuse to go to the London Book Fair and mooch about and take cheesy photos with important people.

Iain: Gosh, is that best-selling crime authors, Rachel McLean and JD Kirk?

Heide: Yes, and that’s me photobombing behind them.

Iain: And is that 1980s TV star Michael Brandon out of Dempsey and Makepeace?

Heide: You know it is. You’re there.

Iain: He’s looking good for 76. But apart from the messing about and just soaking up the book-ish atmosphere, it was really pleasing to be nominated. We had a lot of fun writing those books (Books 4 and 5 are available for pre-order right now) and we hope it’s a series that entertains our readers.

Heide: Books 4, 5 and 6 will all be published during 2022. We’re also trying to get the audiobooks produced as quickly as possible. The excellent narrator Matthew Lloyd Davies is working on them right now!

Iain: Actually, I’m off to Lincolnshire to do some Skegness Sam research after the Easter weekend.

Heide: Oh, I thought you were just going to visit your parents?

Iain: I can do both. There’s a thing with a tank in book 6, an actual military tank, and I’ve heard that there’s an old World War Two tank buried out in the sands on one of the beaches in the north of the county. I thought I might take my parents out for a walk, see if we can find it.

Heide: You’re taking your parents out on the shifting sands in search of buried tanks? Aren’t your parents in their seventies?

Iain: They’re always up for an adventure. I’ll report back on what I find.

Heide: You’re basically going searching for buried treasure.

Iain: If you will. Since we didn’t win the Selfies Award (sob!) I feel the need to go out and win a prize.

Heide: Most people would be satisfied with finding an Easter egg.