Vanity? I should cocoa. It’s a blog FFS. What else do you expect?
Anyway, The Book of Bogus Sequels has just been published, and it seems that 3 of my offerings successfully made the cut. Yay!
‘Inventive Imposter’ is probably
the nicest thing anyone’s ever called me
And so as not to waste the two perfectly fine submissions that were inexplicably rejected, here they are:
From Henry IX by William Shakespeare –
I was the phantom child in Mary’s womb,
And like a phantom spirited away
To this remotest village, my domain,
Where peasants hold my secret in contempt
And I am mocked and calléd ‘king’ for sport;
Thus high-born Henry; thus my humble court.
And following on from Biggles Sweeps the Desert, here’s the opening to Biggles Vacuums the Himalayas by Captain W E Johns –
For the third time that afternoon, Major James Bigglesworth, D.S.O., better known as Biggles, put down his newspaper and ejaculated softly as his good friends, Captain the Honourable Algernon Lacey, M.C., and ‘Ginger’ Hebblethwaite continued to talk excitedly about the latest British technological marvel: the Dyson Dual Cyclone.
There’s some BTS-related youtubery too, if you’re at all interested in books or publishing or technology or whatever.
Tags: bathroom reading, Biggles, Book the Sequel, Captain W E Johns, Henry IX, in vain, Perseus Books, publishing, Shakespeare, Vanity Press
