Poetry Pamphlets.

Hello, dearests. Are you well? We're keeping fairly busy. We've been working properly hard at setting up and starting off www.mostlylife.com, our series of jovial comical blogs. There's plenty to do there, and there'll be plenty more as more people get involved, so nip along when you've got a moment and add to a Round Robin story, or alternatively be inspired by a prompt or maybe just send us some original material to showcase. We want this thing to be mind-bogglingly humungous. That's mostly our aim.

In other news, poetry pamphets:

Poetry Pamphlet Offer

Are you gathering together your poetry collection? Want to have it printed as a classy properly bond book? We’ve had a few people enquire as to what we can do. This is what we’ve come up with:

50 pages (so that includes contents, poems, verso page, etc)

100gsm bookwove paper (that’s quite thick and classy)

Perfect bond (with a spine)

Glossy full colour cover

Free ISBN

Free Barcode

£6.00 per copy for the first 25 copies (minimum order)

Following copies £4 per copy (to be ordered in batches of 25 minimum)

This includes all typesetting services, you just send us the poems, blurbs etc. We turn them into a book, send you a free pdf proof.

If you are ready to go ahead in September or October your pamphlet can be ready before Christmas.

For the cover you can choose one of the following options:

1.With artwork provided - £40 (that’s for making the cover print-ready with barcode, etc.)

2. Original design from our designer - £100

3. A choice of 3 designs from our designer - £200

We can also sell the book via our website service (see below).

Contact us at contact@leafbooks.co.uk for any further information.

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So there's that. Excellent.

To finish off this inter-newsletter update, I'll just remind you that we've two competitions currently open that we'd very much like you to enter - the Mostly Life competition for humour in most conceivable media, which closes at the end of September, and our Poetry competition, which closes at the end of October.

Sam.

Micro-Fiction competition winners

I sent this info out in the newsletter and then forgot to put it on the blog. Sorry about that. Here it is.

2008 Micro-Fiction Competition: Results

Winner

‘Jesse and Jesus’ by Freda Love Smith

Runner-Up

‘Discovering a Comet’ by Pauline Masurel

Commended

‘Green Light’ by Freda Love Smith

‘The Bob Dylan Story’ by Freda Love Smith

‘The Surrealist Manifesto’ by Freda Love Smith

‘Hubris’ by Casey Parry

‘Causality Doesn’t Work Like That’ by Rich Hough

‘A Day in the Country’ by Margaretta Jones

‘A Precious Possession’ by Margaretta Jones

‘What Stinks’ by Lorraine Cave

‘Sadie Jones took me Line Dancing’ by Rosie Garland

‘Heirloom Quality’ by Rosie Garland

‘An African Plant Begins with a D’ by Maureen Gallagher

‘Invisibility for Beginners’ by Helen Pizzey

‘Beside the Seaside ’ by Andrea Davies

‘Light’ by Gavin Eyers

‘Behold’ by Jon Prawer

‘A Pebble from the River for Annie’ by Douglas Bruton

‘Movin’ On’ by Mary Pooley

‘Weather Goddess’ by Andrea Tang

‘Victor’ by Christine Genovese

‘They say that Belgium is a nice country’ by Robert Lankamp

‘Satisfaction’ by Keith Souter

‘The Factory for Other People's Happiness’ by Lloyd Markham

‘Field’ by Laura Tansley

‘We are all the same person in the crowd, for an instant’ by Laura Tansley

‘Where There’s Smoke’ by William Letford

‘Infested’ by Stewart Tiley

‘The Eskimo Word(s) for Love’ by Amy Mackelden

‘Birdcage’ by Christine Todd

‘A Thousand Coats’ by Peter Meredith Smith

‘Curiosity’ by Karen Jones

‘Bad Apples’ by Karen Jones

‘Green Fingers’ by Ruth Harris

‘The Street’ by Mo Singh

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Congratulations to all of the above, and better luck next time to those who didn’t make it onto this list – there were several near-misses. The competition anthology, to be called Discovering a Comet and More Micro-Fiction after the runner-up story and containing all the selected pieces, will go into production shortly (though not really for the next couple of weeks because I'm going on holiday slightly, but do continue to reply to my notifications of your success, dear authors, and sending me your stories and biographies and that - I'll respond to everything when I get back). Keep checking the blog and the news page on the website for further information about this title.

(Note: This anthology will also contain Sara Benham’s story, ‘Whisky and Cigarettes’, which was commended in the previous micro-fiction competition but had to be omitted from the anthology when we couldn’t get in touch with the author – fortunately that’s now been rectified.)