With the various Who books lines either disappearing or printing books aimed
at a younger audience, we - that's Paul Magrs and I - decided that this
would be a great time to launch a new more adult oriented Who-related
fiction imprint, publishing officially licensed Iris Wildthyme books.

Everything's a little bit hush-hush at the moment, but the first book is now
in preparation and is going to be a short story collection entitled

*'Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus'*

and will be published late next Spring. We're keeping authors names under
our hats (there will be a story from Paul obviously!) but expect lots of Who
fiction luminaries to be announced over the coming few weeks

The aim is to use any profit from the short story collection to kick-off a
series of twice yearly Iris novellas and they will only be available in a
limited, numbered and autographed run. Don't worry though - they definitely
won't be wildly expensive.

One thing we can announce is that June Hudson, legendary Who costume
designer and the brains behind the famous season 18 costumes amongst many
other things, has kindly agreed to do the cover art, about which we're both
totally chuffed and she's going to discuss art ideas with Katy Manning, who
plays Iris in the Big Finish audio series.

Further information will appear on www.obversebooks.co.uk in the near
future, but in the meantime please go there and sign up for our very low
volume mailing list and so keep abreast of upcoming news...

Cheers

Stuart


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