Tales From The Spired Inn

[Stephen Palmer]

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Out on 14th October.
Pre-order the special edition now!

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Looking forward to it!

 

[The Judge]

What a gorgeous cover!

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Thanks for the comments.
Can't wait to see the reaction to this. People still remember me from Memory Seed, which is really nice.
I blogged about it today.

 

[Margaret Note Spelling]

That's lovely. The leaves on the front cover--are they raised from the rest of the picture? It's difficult to tell from the image, but it almost looks 3d.

 

[HareBrain]

Memory Seed was great. Looking forward to this one,

 

[Stephen Palmer]

That's lovely. The leaves on the front cover--are they raised from the rest of the picture? It's difficult to tell from the image, but it almost looks 3d.

Alas, no! It's an optical illusion caused by a double drop shadow, dark to the bottom right, pale to the top left.

 

[Margaret Note Spelling]

I see! Great idea.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

... and this is the dust-jacket for the limited edition, signed hardback (pre-order to secure a copy).

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Five years ago I made a short, impressionistic film about my debut Memory Seed. With the upcoming publication of Tales From The Spired Inn, I thought I'd link to it here.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

When I retrieved the rights to my novels Memory Seed and Glass it transpired that Orbit had no digital copies of them, which was a bit of a surprise. So I had no option but to buy a secondhand copy of each, rip them up into individual pages (more difficult than it sounds – every page had to be undamaged), then Optical Character Recognition each page to recreate the novel as digital text. But, as scanner users will know, OCR is not a 100% accurate process, which meant I then had to edit the words into recognisable form, then do a second pass edit to iron out remaining problems. It was a lengthy, tiring and frustrating task – but I got there in the end (both novels currently available as ebooks from Infinity Plus Books). The pictures below show the photographic evidence!

 

[Stephen Palmer]

How it all began...

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Maps!

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Burn! Burn! Burn!

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Thoughts... 31 years later.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Published today. I will admit to being pleased.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

These days, even the cheapest scanner/printer does a better and easier job than the OCR of years past--although even then there are still some predictable scanning errors, which make going through something of novel length and finding them a tedious job.

And the cover looks great!

 

[Stephen Palmer]

The hardback looks gorgeous! Many thanks to Ian Whates at the Newcon Press.
PS - last day of the Memory Seed ebook promotion today.

 

[Foxbat]

Bought