The launch party for the new Pimlico Wilde publishing division was a relatively quiet affair, with no more than three noise abatement orders issued during the seventeen hour event that welcomed stars of the fine art, publishing and sports world to our little townhouse/gallery/emporium in central London. It was only slightly overshadowed by the theft of Lady Hannibal’s Gold and diamond-encrusted straw, which she takes everywhere nowadays to use instead of the paper straws that turn to papier-mâché after two sucks.
Shannon Drifte, author of the North American best seller How to find Oil in almost any back garden broke the world record for number of books signed in one sitting, breaking the record set in Iraq by Hekan Al Bitte’s book Buy this book or get shot by the secret police. Managing director Rominee Plantonane announced the first roster of books that would be published by the imprint: “We have won the bidding war to publish QWERTY is not a Word, the new Scrabble-based murder mystery set in the high stakes world of both online Scrabbling and the Monte Carlo Scrabblathon by A.K.Seepe. And we have the rights to the upcoming catalogue raisonné of Bangladeshi micro-sculptor B.P. Rohingya whose work is so small that none of it has ever actually been seen. Not to mention tomes that will be the talk of London and New York, like 12th century Anglo-Welsh Duelling Customs and Footballers I have had my photo taken with.”
Writers with interesting book proposals in genres from Religion to Murder mysteries, Health to Sport or frankly any subject except for serial killer memoirs should get in touch.
We cannot publish any photographs from the event until the police deem the location is no longer a crime scene. If anyone is offered a gold and diamond straw they are asked to contact the police.