A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR SUBSCRIBERS, OTHER FOLLOWERS, AND CASUAL VISITORS!
2019 was a good year for Calderonia, with a slight increase in views despite the fact that the book has now been out for sixteen months. I would say I have enough themes in me to carry on writing the blog until the end of 2021; indeed, I’ve got one or two mega-important subjects to raise in this new year of 2020…
However, I have not so much made a New Year’s Resolution as been seized by resolution: the resolution to sell at least 100 more copies of my book in the next four months. Why four months? Our biggest sales opportunity seems to be the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Conference 3-5 April in Cambridge, and that’s what we shall be working towards. The original Sam1 will be coming over for it from Moscow and we shall be selling our full range of English and Russian books.
Why 100 copies of George Calderon: Edwardian Genius? Well, we have to date ‘shifted’ only 49% of our total imprint of the book. ‘Shifted’ is the word independent publishers use when they want to refer accurately to the number of copies they have parted with since publication day rather than the total actually sold… The fact is, we still need to sell 140 copies before we break even, let alone go into profit (I use the word loosely, you understand). A hundred copies by the end of April, given that the Conference will have 800 delegates, seems feasible.
Rush then to buy your extra copy of the fine limited edition George Calderon: Edwardian Genius whilst stocks last! Buy it most conveniently online at http://www.samandsam.co.uk
The big difference that this resolution will make to Calderonia is that for much of the next four months the top post will be a description of the book, quotations from reviews, and a link taking you straight to buying it. This is because we suspect some people are having difficulty finding the Sam&Sam website through Google, whereas Calderonia very quickly comes up and at the moment is not obviously dedicated to selling the book.
When this selling storm is over, I assure you I shall return to blogging with a vengeance!
SOME RESPONSES TO GEORGE CALDERON: EDWARDIAN GENIUS
‘This meticulous yet nimble book is bound to remain the definitive account of Calderon’s life’ Charlotte Jones, The Times Literary Supplement
‘The effort of detection, it must be said, was worth it. The biography is a delight to read.’ Emeritus Professor Laurence Brockliss, The London Magazine
‘It is a masterly synthesis of your own approach with scholarship and very judicious discussion of the evidence.’ Emeritus Professor Catherine Andreyev, historian
‘This comprehensive, meticulously researched and highly readable biography, which the author describes as a “story” rather than an academic biography…’ Michael Pursglove, East-West Review
‘A monumental scholarly masterpiece that gives real insight into how the Edwardians viewed the world.’Arch Tait, Translator of Natalya Rzhevskaya’s Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter
‘The book is written with great assurance and the reader always feels in safe hands. I liked the idea of it being a story and I read it the same way I would read a novel.’ Harvey Pitcher, writer
‘Presents the Edwardian age, and Calderon in particular, as new and forward-looking.’ Emeritus Professor Michael Alexander, in Trinity College, Oxford, Report 2017-18
A review by DAMIAN GRANT appears in the comments to Calderonia’s 7 September post.
A review by JOHN DEWEY appears on Amazon UK.
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Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
George Calderon, 1912
The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
George Calderon c.1901
Captain of the 11
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
Figure from Gauguin’s 1899 painting ‘Tahitian Women with Mango Blossoms’ (left); George Calderon’s pencil sketch ‘Manu’ (right)
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
Resolution
A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR SUBSCRIBERS, OTHER FOLLOWERS, AND CASUAL VISITORS!
2019 was a good year for Calderonia, with a slight increase in views despite the fact that the book has now been out for sixteen months. I would say I have enough themes in me to carry on writing the blog until the end of 2021; indeed, I’ve got one or two mega-important subjects to raise in this new year of 2020…
However, I have not so much made a New Year’s Resolution as been seized by resolution: the resolution to sell at least 100 more copies of my book in the next four months. Why four months? Our biggest sales opportunity seems to be the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Conference 3-5 April in Cambridge, and that’s what we shall be working towards. The original Sam1 will be coming over for it from Moscow and we shall be selling our full range of English and Russian books.
Why 100 copies of George Calderon: Edwardian Genius? Well, we have to date ‘shifted’ only 49% of our total imprint of the book. ‘Shifted’ is the word independent publishers use when they want to refer accurately to the number of copies they have parted with since publication day rather than the total actually sold… The fact is, we still need to sell 140 copies before we break even, let alone go into profit (I use the word loosely, you understand). A hundred copies by the end of April, given that the Conference will have 800 delegates, seems feasible.
Rush then to buy your extra copy of the fine limited edition George Calderon: Edwardian Genius whilst stocks last! Buy it most conveniently online at http://www.samandsam.co.uk
The big difference that this resolution will make to Calderonia is that for much of the next four months the top post will be a description of the book, quotations from reviews, and a link taking you straight to buying it. This is because we suspect some people are having difficulty finding the Sam&Sam website through Google, whereas Calderonia very quickly comes up and at the moment is not obviously dedicated to selling the book.
When this selling storm is over, I assure you I shall return to blogging with a vengeance!
SOME RESPONSES TO GEORGE CALDERON: EDWARDIAN GENIUS
‘This meticulous yet nimble book is bound to remain the definitive account of Calderon’s life’ Charlotte Jones, The Times Literary Supplement
‘The effort of detection, it must be said, was worth it. The biography is a delight to read.’ Emeritus Professor Laurence Brockliss, The London Magazine
‘It is a masterly synthesis of your own approach with scholarship and very judicious discussion of the evidence.’ Emeritus Professor Catherine Andreyev, historian
‘This comprehensive, meticulously researched and highly readable biography, which the author describes as a “story” rather than an academic biography…’ Michael Pursglove, East-West Review
‘A monumental scholarly masterpiece that gives real insight into how the Edwardians viewed the world.’Arch Tait, Translator of Natalya Rzhevskaya’s Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter
‘The book is written with great assurance and the reader always feels in safe hands. I liked the idea of it being a story and I read it the same way I would read a novel.’ Harvey Pitcher, writer
‘Presents the Edwardian age, and Calderon in particular, as new and forward-looking.’ Emeritus Professor Michael Alexander, in Trinity College, Oxford, Report 2017-18
A review by DAMIAN GRANT appears in the comments to Calderonia’s 7 September post.
A review by JOHN DEWEY appears on Amazon UK.
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