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15 November 2007. I've added a picture of the Outcast CD to the Outcast page, following a request from a fan.
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1 November 2007. Good month for the book page stats; of the 26 books, 7 had record visits and 2 equalled theirs. I've now received my first batch of Johnny Reb books and will be sorting them out this weekend and letting those of you who've pre-booked them know formally.
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25 October 2007. Johnny Reb is out! Now Casca has 26 novels in the series. See how to order either on the Johnny Reb page or the Orderbook page.
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14 October 2007. Civil War pictures are on, see Johnny Reb page or the CW Skirmish page.
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13 October 2007. Went to a Civil War re-enactment event today at Bath, at the American History Museum there. Got some good shots of the action and I'll put these on the website in the next couple of days.
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11 October 2007. More figures for the states Casca fan numbers I know of: Texas 78, California 77, Virginia 38, New York / Florida 36, Washington 33, Arizona 26, Illinois 23, Pennsylvania / Ohio / Michigan 22, Colorado / Oregon 21, Georgia 20, Mississippi / Alabama 17, North Carolina 16, Missouri / Indiana / Louisiana / Maryland 15, Tennessee 14, Arkansas 13, Kentucky / Kansas 12, Nevada / Oklahoma 11, Massachusetts / New Jersey / New Mexico 9, Hawaii / Connecticut / Alaska 8, Minnesota / Iowa 7, Vermont / Wisconsin / Montana / South Carolina 6, Nebraska 5, West Virginia / Maine 4, Vermont / New Hampshire / Wyoming / North Dakota 3, Delaware 1. You can comprare these with the previous figures on the previous news page for May 2007.
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9 October 2007. With a week to go to the expected release date of Johnny Reb, the website experienced a 6-hour period of downtime yesterday. Sorry about that, I don't know the causes (despite asking the domain administrators) but at least they got it working within 45 minutes of me asking.
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4 October 2007. I've completed the first draft of Casca 27: The Confederate and its now being proof-read.
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25 September 2007. The latest schedule for the new novel is as follows: printing completion by October 8, the new novels to be with the publisher a week later. I'll get my allocation for purchase and distribution by the end of October.
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13 September 2007. Johnny Reb, the 26th Casca book in the series, will be released around the middle of October 2007. Keep watching this space for further news.
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11 August 2007. News hot from the Casca franchise owners. There's a possible film deal in the offing. See the blog page for details.
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4 August 2007. Sadly the expected publication date in September has had to be delayed because the artwork on the book cover isn't satisfactory. Futher attempts to create a satisfactory cover is being sought by the publisher.
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1 August 2007. Mindful of Disraeli's quote about statistics, this hasbeen the best ever month with visits well over the 1100 mark. Astonishing. Even more so was the book page stats which for some unknown reason on 31st July suddenly recalled the data lost for the period 2000-2006. I've no idea why this happened. Still, the revised stats are now on the booklist page. The artwork has been sent to the publisher who should complete the cover work and send to the printers within a few days.
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28 July 2007. The more regular visitors to this website may have noticed recently how the visitor counter has gone beserk. I can proudly announce that for the first time ever, in this website's hallowed 7-year history, the monthly individual visitor count has passed the magical 1,000. Its not just broken the old record (November 2006's paltry 897) but smashed it to pieces.
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24 July 2007. The new email address seems to have gone belly-up for some inexplicable reason so I've shut it down and gone back to my old one of tonyrobertsbristol@yahoo.co.uk Apologies ot all who may have had trouble in contacting me!
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21 July 2007. Some of you might have noticed a new email address to correspond with me. This is because some emails had gone astray to the old one. The old address still works so I can be contacted on both. Meanwhile the publisher tells me he intends to release Johnny Reb on 1 September. We've come up with a fall-back plan for the artwork and that's being done this weekend.