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I thought I'd get the drop on the day and post poetry early! This is another classic that I post every year, because I love EA Robinson's poems and he was a very interesting person, too.

This is how my week has gone: In the time between typing the above and pasting the below, I had two phone calls and three people come by my desk Wanting Things. The burden of competence is an expectation of omniscience, you guys.

Dear Friends
by EA Robinson

Dear friends, reproach me not for what I do,
Nor counsel me, nor pity me; nor say
That I am wearing half my life away
For bubble-work that only fools pursue.

And if my bubbles be too small for you,
Blow bigger then your own: the games we play
To fill the frittered minutes of a day,
Good glasses are to read the spirit through.

And whose reads may get him some shrewd skill;
And some unprofitable scorn resign,
To praise the very thing that he deplores;
So, friends (dear friends), remember, if you will,
The shame I win for singing is all mine,
The gold I miss for dreaming is all yours.

Many Happy Returns

Your Majesty, on behalf of Torchwood Three and the People of Wales, allow me to wish you a very

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Jack made me use that font. Have a fairy cake?

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I think this book is giving me a breakdown. GOOD TIMES.

Not really, but I've had a lot of weird free-floating anxiety, like I seriously need to get something done and just can't quite get to it. Obviously I'm posting less, because I'm FRAZZLED. Still, I'm taking my time and trying to do this right. All that work would just be wasted if I hustled and fucked everything up now. :)

So, here's the new Book Cover stuff -- three thumbnails, a VERY LARGE version, and, because the text isn't readable, the text of the blurb and author bio under the cut. Welcoming all new thoughts! The basic design is the same on all three covers, because I'm seriously liking that layout; the fonts too, for the same reason. But I'd like thoughts on the colour scheme. And on the rest, too, just please don't break my heart and tell me everything about it is wrong :D

Do ignore the lines around the edges of the image and outlining the spine -- those are just guidelines to show me where the bleed and spine will be.

( Blurb and bio )

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( Thumbnails and large version )