As you can see in the photos above, and in this video, a copy of Midsummer Night's Dream, which I was about to sell at the Lakes Festival this weekend, contained a surprise.
Inside, instead of 130 pages of prime graphic novel by me, was a book called In Depth Acting by Dee Cannon. It has a foreword by Pierce Brosnan, no less. I wonder if, technically, that means I'm now allowed to quote him in my books? Probably won't.
I have written to Draft2Digital, the printers-on-demand, who I should imagine have received a few bits of correspondence along this line. My guess is that everyone who order books that morning got something like this, one copy in the batch having the next book along's content inside by accident. Because they are able to do such short print runs (in this case I ordered just 10 copies) they'll do it in a conveyor belt like process, and a small glitch in the system could easily mean the covers and interiors going out of synch and not being spotted.
It was entertaining on the day, and I can live with the one sale it might have lost me. (Coming as it did at the end of my second biggest month of book sales this year, and just after my biggest single day of book sales this year. Not complaining.)
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Richard The Third (Colour) | Doctors Who? Colouring | Socks Do Shakespeare | Kids Comics Annual 2026 |
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Richard The Third (bw) | Findlay Macbeth | Prince of Denmark Street | Midsummer Night's Dream Team |
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Shakespeare Omnibus | Comic Tales From The Bible | Joseph, Ruth & Other Stories | Space Elain |
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