…Paul Carvill (@paulcarvill) and John Stuart (@biostuart)! Congratulations to them both. Paul and John’s names were picked at random from the set of all commenters on the original competition post, plus all those who replied to, retweeted, or marked as favourite the tweet announcing the contest. Their copies of the UK edition of Shady Characters will be on their way very soon.
Shady Characters
has launched, and we’re having a party to celebrate! We’ll be at Pickles on Broughton Street, Edinburgh, from 6-8pm on Tuesday October 1st. Click here to add the event to your calendar.
For some reason, I’m not allowed to sell books at the party. This is going to sound incredibly gauche, but if you’d like me to sign a copy please bring one with you!
Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and Other Typographical Curiosities
is now available in the UK. (I checked for myself at my local Waterstones and collected some documentary evidence, left. The recent excision of the Waterstone[’]s apostrophe still galls me.) You can order a hardback or digital copy from Amazon.co.uk, The Book Depository, Penguin, or Waterstones.
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks
is now available to order from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore, Indiebound and Powell’s. If you’re still on the fence as to whether to buy the book, you can now take a look at a few sample pages over at W. W. Norton’s account on Medium. Perhaps Judith Abbate’s excellent typography or Jason Booher’s vibrant cover will sway you!
Two long-awaited parcels — one from W. W. Norton, the other from Particular Books — arrived this week. With just less than a month to go before publication, I now have some copies of the finished books! They’re both rather amazing.