Follow-up

[desperance]

Went up to the dentist this morning, stepped a little awkward off the kerb, and ouchie! Yes, my back is bad.

Also, the dentist is the first guy since the weekend to get up close and personal with my face. "What have you been up to, Chaz, fighting someone? You've got bruises round your eye here. And the other one's a little blackish too..."

So yes, not quite so scot-free as I had blithely been assuming. Not enough harm, though, I am assuming, to trigger a claim for compensation from the Board...

Also, a nice lady from Victim Support just phoned to ask how I was doing. She spoke very posh and called me Charles.

What else? Vague news about my not quite falling out of print: Orbit has been dithering for a year over the Outremer books. They were going to put them into a POD programme, which would have the grace of keeping them available, tho' you'd pay twice as much and have to order specially, so they wouldn't be in the warehouse let alone in the shops; but then they didn't do that and didn't do that, so the books have been becoming unavailable as the last of the stock drained away. But actually that's been happening a little faster than Orbit had reckoned on, there's a bit more demand than they expected (I am inclined to blame thank The Write Fantastic; regular gigging does encourage regular book-orders), so now they've decided they can justify a short reprint. It'll still be more expensive, but not so much, and at least there will be actual books on actual shelves, which is a good thing. So yeah. I'm pleased.

Now I'm going to vacuum the living-room, before a nice man comes round to tell me what the council proposes to do to my house...

Comments

[frumpo.livejournal.com]

> Not enough harm, though, I am assuming, to trigger a claim for compensation from the Board...

You'd need 3 separate injuries and 2 visits to doctors
http://www.cica.gov.uk/Documents/publications/Criminal%20Injuries%20Compensation%20Scheme%202008.pdf?epslanguage=en

What a terrifying document!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Wow. 55 pages of PDF? Nope, not even going to read it, let alone apply...

[frumpo.livejournal.com]

The whole of the second half is just a huge table that equates injuries to cash. For example, if you completely lose your sense of taste they'll give you £11k.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

"Our old mess sergeant's tastebuds had been shot off in the war..."

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

I presume that Kerry Katona will be applying for her £11k forthwith.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

'lose'

We need evidence she ever had one.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Actual books = good!
:-)

She called me Mr Sanderson...

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I hate it when they do that. If she's too formal to call you Chaz, she can say 'Mr Brenchley'...

Not being out of print yet is good, though.

[wolfinthewood.livejournal.com]

I really like the Outremer books. It's good news that Orbit will be reprinting them.

She spoke very posh and called me Charles.

Aargh. I agree with what shewhomust says about that.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Reprints good. On the other hand, back pain is bad.
The last time I had a black eye, I hid for a week. It was easier than explaining over and over that I *really* did walk into a pillar (in the Co-Op) and that no, the marquis had not hit me, and would never even think of so doing and YES I WAS TELLING THE TRUTH.
I trust the council are intending to do only good things!

[julesjones]

Reprints are good.

There is also the eventual option of Fictionwise, for those authors who have at least ten items (including short stories) which have been previously published by a not-vanity press that FW trusts to screen the slush for them.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

"SHe spoke very posh and called me Charles"

I'm having a Tex Avery/John Steinbeck moment: "I will love him and kiss him and hug him and pet him and call him Charles."

Beware the Victim Support woman.