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NOVEMBER - 2024

Hello again

I hope you are well and also well prepared for the forthcoming festivities. I have had a very busy and extremely enjoyable month with my seasonal round of book signings so far. Met a lot of lovely people and sold a lot of books. This time of the year, business is brisk with people hunting for something a bit different as a present for someone. Which is great, except I sometimes wonder how i feel about people purchasing my books just to give them away. Joking apart, I'm delighted with every copy sold. 

My most recent signing was at Costa Coffee, in the Tesco Superstore in Bury. Not the most obvious place for such an event, but one at which I've been very successful in the past and last week - Friday, 29 November. I almost broke the daily record set a few weeks ago at the Trafford Centre, and celebrated with the first mince pie of the season!

With the success of the past few weeks, my stock of books will just about meet the requirements of my three remaining  book signing dates in December, as follows:

• Saturday 7 December at WHSmith, George Street, Alrincham

• Saturday 14 December at WHSmith, Trafford Centre, Manchester

• Saturday 21 December at WHSmith, Mill Gate Shopping Centre, Bury

During the past few weeks, I've had several sales through my website with people looking for Christmas gifts and taking advantage of some of the deals on offer. If you are considering making a purchase, don't wait too long - they will only apply while current stocks last. Just a reminder:-

·  Catalyst, Heaven's Door, Lost Souls  - £8.99 each, bought separately

·  All three bought together - £17.98; i.e. 3 for the price of 2 

·  The Blue Men - £9.99

·  The Blue Men + Catalyst - £14.48

Just go onto my website - www.michaelknaggs.co.uk - and click on the BOOKS tab. All purchases have FREE P&P, and, of course, all come with a signature.

I am now in possession of the proof-read manuscript of The Moorstone, so we are in the penultimate stage of its publication. I'll keep you posted in the next Newsletter at which time I will have a better estimate of when copies will be available.

So we move into December and hold our breaths for what weather it will bring. I guess, based on the evidence of the past couple of months we can expect anything, any day, from glorious sunshine to a monsoon. Perhaps we might even get something 'deep and crisp and even' on the way. This particular December has a certain significance for me. My book signing at the Trafford Centre on 14th of the month is on the very last day of my seventies. So even if you have all the books of mine you need, if you're around, feel free to drop in and offer me words of sympathy.  

And speaking of firsts i.e. the mince pie, above, tonight we had the first open fire of the season,. almost as part of the Christmas decorations. Although the real ones will follow from tomorrow when I turn into Clark Griswold in National Lampoons Christmas Holiday and set about displaying the twenty sets of lights inside and around the house. But the fire was a good start.

Stay safe and well. I will be back before Christmas Day with the December Newsletter including news about how it feels to be eighty years old!

With best regards

Michael

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