Category: Shiny Things

Take a Tour Around Bazalgate and win a Kindle Paperwhite!

To celebrate the Kindle First digital launch of TICKER, the Farthing family would like to loan you your very own Vitesse motorized high-wheeled bicycle and messenger bag. Venture out into the city of Bazalgate to see the sights and retrieve six items necessary to celebrate with Penny and her friends. When you are done, remit…
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November 3, 2014 0

Can’t wait another second to read TICKER?

Then surprise, my lovelies, you can read it right now! It’s true! TICKER was selected as one of four titles for the US and UK Kindle First Program, which means you can get the digital edition RIGHT NOW for $1.99 (and for FREE if you are an Amazon Prime Member.) Kindle First is a program…
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November 1, 2014 0

Blurbing Trousers

I received a most excellent communication this morning via PaperTape from the charming Professor Elemental (who sometimes masquerades about town as the dashing Paul Alborough), who had this to say about the new book: A ripping yarn! TICKER grabs you from the first page and doesn’t let up until the book is done. Packed with…
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October 1, 2014 0

Send a paper airplane (or fifty)

So, most of you have seen the lovely Disney short “Paperman.” If not, please find it on YouTube. I’ll wait. So, I watched it about fifty times yesterday. And I fell in love with it. So. You see this form? Our hero folds about a hundred of them and sails them out the window. ……
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January 31, 2013 3

Just call me “Sugar Burn”

There’s been a lot of creative stuffs going on at Chez Mantchev… the bit I can actually share with you is my recipe for fantastically ginger cookies. (Between friends, I refer to these as Boozy Woozy Timey Wimey cookies, because I started making them for a friend I gifted with a TARDIS cookie jar. Plus,…
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December 16, 2012 0