I’ve noticed quite a lot of traffic to the blog page about The Friday Project, which I can only assume is either a) journalists from the trade press looking to see whether or not we’ve got the inside skinny on the fate of TV Cream Toys’ publishing company du jour or, b) other authors whose books have not yet been released wondering why the TV Cream titles are still available. 

The truth is, aside from what’s in the reports already out there, I know little else: speculation suggests that someone is buying up the company (or at least some of its backlist), and that some of the outstanding authors’ contracts will be honoured, some may not.  Whether this is true or not (and for whom) is only partially confirmed. However, having sat with TV Cream Toys in purgatory for about 12 months (it was released almost two years after the original pitch), I can at least empathise with those who now wonder if their book will ever make it to the shops. 

On the thorny issue of reprints, I don’t know if that will ever happen either (although I’d like to see paperback versions of TV Cream Toys and TV Cream’s Anatomy Of Cinema), so perhaps buy up the unsold stock while you still can, eh?