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“his heart leapt in his chest.” - Yes, well it would be worrying if it leapt elsewhere, wouldn’t it?

“raven-haired beauty” - What was I thinking? Next I’ll be discussing his limpid emerald orbs, or have someone say they like a man with spirit. Any mention of these, please shoot me.

It’s over a year now since Lucius last went on one of his jaunts – perhaps 18 months – and he’s not been in for his breakfast. I’m not panicking yet, he’s been known to skip a meal from time to time, as he’s quite capable of catching his own food, but I miss the boy. I hope he’s not gone walkabout again.ETA: He’s home, the ingrate. Eight hours late. grumble grumble grumble. and with an expression that says: “What?” grumble grumble sassaffrassdickdastardly. Cats can’t live with ‘'em, can’t eat ‘em.

I see that QUARTET PRESS has folded before it even started up.

I’m not surprised at this, any more than I would be if any new venture had started up, or folded. Although I see there’s a positive fandom-style wailing and gnashing of teeth going on.

What I WAS surprised at was the completely over the top effusive snogging fest that went on when Quartet was announced. Until that began I had taken little notice of the announcement. Meh – another epub starting up – so what? Despite the BNF(big name fan) aspect of the people starting up Quartet, why on earth should anyone have assumed that it was 1. going to do well 2. going to be quality? And what does this sentence REALLY mean?

we didn’t want to compromise and lower the quality

Compromise on what?

The thing is that it seems that what they are saying is (I could be wrong), in talks with the digital vendors, they found out that they had too many people on board to make a living. Which is what “We could have restructured” probably means e.g. they could have kicked someone out. But what the hell has THAT to do with lowering the quality? Your QUALITY is only affected by the quality of submissions you are getting in. You, as an editor and publisher can only affect the quality detrimentally by bad editing, or bad covers.

What was important to them?