D’Ancey Update + Book Club Tonight Cancelled

Hallo friends!

I just wrote this update to the unbound pledgers on the D’Ancey La Guarde Reader preorder/funding page.

“Well, this is ridiculous. The D’Ancey LaGuarde Reader is getting funded at a pulsatingly swift pace; the pre-orders coming in as hot as a laird in a ripped kilt on a lathered horse.

I sort of can’t believe this book is actually looking more and more likely to become reality. If we get to full funding, I think I might faint (in a train carriage, into the arms of a quiet stranger in a monocle whose slim build and unassuming manners hide a whipcord strength and tensile passion).

I mean, it’s not just that it’s a real book about an invented author, it’s also that it’s a real book about an invented author invented for a fake ad section on a show set in an alternate universe that was itself a spin-off of The Bugle, a show famed for its relentless bullshit.

What an extraordinary way to make a book exist.

Please do share the link and your palpitating enthusiasm with your friends and the enemies who make your heart race in what you are increasingly insisting is annoyance rather than lust. I believe in our ability to make this happen, (just like a returning duke, dispossessed for youthful rebellion returning independently wealthy from the new world to reclaim his ancestral home, and what he assumes to be the meek and biddable bride intended for him from birth).

And I meant every word. This is wild.

Re: book club,

Sorry to do this to you, but this week’s book club is a no go. I’m not going to make it to 10pm my time in any state to talk literature, after a bit too much burning the candle at both gig-night, book-funding-launch-launch and baby-wakeup ends.

The writer’s workshop will go ahead as usual this weekend and salons/book club next week will be untouched! It’s just I’m such a cool person that I really feel the need for speed, and by speed I mean to be in bed by 9pm on a Friday night.