http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/news.html/ News updates for Beholder's "The Knot-Shop Man" project en-gb 1440 http://www.beholder.co.uk/cgi-bin/knots.pl The Readers Only pages of the website are now open. If you have your books to hand, you can access them for knot-related details on some of the characters in the stories. Don't look until you've read the stories because there may be spoilers. http://www.beholder.co.uk/cgi-bin/knots.pl Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:58:00 GMT http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/news.html#badbatch I now know that a batch went out in which one of the illustrations in Earth wasn't coloured. Because the sets are tied up and boxed, I've got no way of knowing for sure exactly how many books have some green missing (it may be as many as 24). If you're one of the unlucky recipients of one of the bad books, then please accept my apologies and share in my anguish. There's a lot of work in each of these sets -- in total, 3200 illustrations needed colour added, by hand, and 800 of those are the fiddly "double-spreads" -- so it's frustrating that somehow I missed some. http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/news.html#badbatch Wed, 24 Nov 2009 23:59:00 GMT http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/tietheknot.html If you're trying to tie the books together again, there's an error so small in the instructions that you probably won't have spotted it: but just in case it muddled things for you, there's now a correction on the website. http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/tietheknot.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:05:00 GMT http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/reviews.html A review of the books (warning: may contain spoilers) from venerable knot expert Geoffrey Budworth. http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/reviews.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/news.html#published We are proud to announce the publication of The Knot-Shop Man. Pre-ordered copies began arriving at readers' doors yesterday. Now you can untie those knots and start reading! Happy 10th Anniversary, Planetarium! http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/news.html#published Wed, 9 Sep 2009 01:00:00 GMT http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/packing.html Photos and video from backstage at Exploding Pen, where we have been busy preparing The Knot-Shop Man pre-orders for shipping for 09/09/09. http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/packing.html Mon, 7 Sep 2009 14:30:00 GMT http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/news.html#covers If you want to journey to Arxnodorum, where the knots of fate are tied, you'll need a coin with a hole in the middle. The cover artwork for each book features such a coin, together with right-hand lay three-strand manilla rope. You can see the covers, for the first time, on the website. http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/news.html#covers Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:11:00 GMT http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/chapter1.html Now available: read the start of Chapter 1 from each of the four books. http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/chapter1.html Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:50:00 GMT http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/earthbaby.html Now available: read the very short story "The Earth Baby" online, or download (and share!) the PDF. http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/earthbaby.html Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:00:00 GMT http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/fireworkmaker.html Now available: read the very short story "The Firework-Maker and the Dragon" online, or download (and share!) the PDF. http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/fireworkmaker.html Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:00:00 GMT http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/poetprincess.html Now available: read the short story "The Poet and the Princess" online, or download (and share!) the PDF. http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/poetprincess.html Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:00:00 GMT http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/fisherman.html Now available: read the very short story "The Fisherman and the Mermaid" online, or download (and share!) the PDF. http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/fisherman.html Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/girlandwolf.html As part of the release of the The Knot-Shop Man, we're pleased to finally let this story out. It was written especially for the website as part of the project. Read The Girl and the Wolf online, or download (and share!) the PDF. http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/girlandwolf.html Tue, 19 May 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/news.html The books are currently being read by selected youngsters while the illustrations are being completed. If our readers give it the thumbs-up we'll be going to print in a month or so. If they don't, well, we'll probably tie their ears together with painful lobe-hitches and string them up from a clothes line until they do. http://www.beholder.co.uk/knots/news.html#start Tue, 19 May 2009 12:00:00 GMT