News: new book, new comp, that's about the size of it.

Discovering a Comet is now in stock (and into its second print run already), and available to buy from the Leaf Books website. The first button is the full-price (£7.99 plus £1 p&p per copy) version for the general public to use, but if you're a featured author you can use the author's discount button at the bottom of the page to buy it for only £6 (plus £1 p&p). All of the pre-orders (bar a few who've been contacted - we've had some internet-issues of late) and free copies have now been sent out and should be with their owners in the next few days: let us know by the end of next week if anything's gone astray.

What else? There's a new competition open: Young Writers' Competition, for authors aged eighteen and under: see the website for details. The Nano competition is still open as well.

The Mostly Life competition judging is almost completed and we hope to make an announcement by the end of the month: please keep an eye on the blog for further details. The recently-closed poetry competition is also being judged, and we expect to inform the winners early in the new year.

And we think that's more or less it.

Has anybody seen this author?

We've received an entry to the nano-fiction competition through the post that came with no identifying information, such as an entry form. If you are the author of 'The Crow', one hundred words exactly, can you please get in touch with us at contact@leafbooks.co.uk? We need to know your name, postal address and email address if we're to enter you into the competition.

Discovering a Comet. Very nearly found. And more besides.

Discovering a Comet and More Micro-Fiction is all set to go to print by the end of this week. If you're one of the twenty-nine authors featured in this book, you have till Wednesday the 5th, remember, remember etc, to pre-order copies at your special extra-reduced author's discount price type thing. Obviously you can order copies after that date, but it'll cost a little bit more.

And people who aren't featured in the book can pre-order copies as well. Have a look at our website where you can take a peek at the front cover and pre-order the book for £7.99 (plus £1 p&p) per copy - use the first PayPal button on the page or just send us a cheque in the post and a little note saying how many you want. We're impressively informal.

Thanks to everyone who entered the poetry competition that closed at the end of October - there was quite a flurry of entries in the last few days. Hopefully we've replied to all entrants by now to tell you we've received your entry/entries, but if not just drop us an email and we'll put your mind at rest. The judging will take place over the next few months and the winners should be announced early in the new year (also, the Mostly Life Humour Competition results should be announced by the end of the month, if you're interested). Keep checking the blog and our monthly newsletters for updates - and visit the competition page of our website if you fancy entering our nano fiction competition for tiny weeny stories of 100 words or fewer. It's adorable really.

Mostly at present we're engaged in making poetry books and novels and things along those lines through our private printing service. Lots of people are taking advantage of the service ... bimble along to the website if you want to find out what we're offering.

Sam.