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[neilmarr]

Good to see you're still with us, Kev. Meantime, my ISP has still not re-connected me (though it was quick enough to debit me for the monthly fee the other day). Right now, I'm connected -- via a 30-yard long network cable -- stretched between the PC to my next-door neighbour's modem. At least in Leicester you have powerful UK regulation on telecom and broadband suppliers. Here in France, the industry is pretty well unreglulated, the consumer organisations are in cahoots with the servers, and the whole thing is a bloody shambles. Hoots. Neil

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by neilmarr

..... Here in France, the industry is pretty well unreglulated, the consumer organisations are in cahoots with the servers, and the whole thing is a bloody shambles. Hoots. Neil

[Kevin2960]

Originally Posted by neilmarr

Good to see you're still with us, Kev. Meantime, my ISP has still not re-connected me (though it was quick enough to debit me for the monthly fee the other day). Right now, I'm connected -- via a 30-yard long network cable -- stretched between the PC to my next-door neighbour's modem. At least in Leicester you have powerful UK regulation on telecom and broadband suppliers. Here in France, the industry is pretty well unreglulated, the consumer organisations are in cahoots with the servers, and the whole thing is a bloody shambles. Hoots. Neil

Neil,

Yeah we are lucky, I understand the issues in some of Europe though, well at least you are still online, one way or another, but I do hope you get connected properly soon mate,

Take Care,

[neilmarr]

C'est la vie, Kev. Living here does have it's up-side, though.

Hey -- if you're up and running again, we released Liza Granville's *The Tor* last week. Give me a shout if you'd like a copy in PDF, ePub or Mobi with our compliments (any other chums reading here within the next twenty-four hours or so, too).

It's an apocalyptic fantasy ... with its feet on the ground. You can read about it by going to our bookshop at the BeWrite Books site (www.bewrite.net) or, if you can't be bothered, I'll paste the back cover text to the paperback below.

How's that for a sneaky promo, exploiting the trials and tribulations of a pal back home in Leicester?

Very best. Neil

PS: Here's the blurb for *The Tor*. Up for grabs for the next day:

Among the rotting ruins and open sores of a diseased Earth, Jude – sole survivor of a solitary group of hungry travellers and scavengers – is destined for a vital task ... but those who knew what that task is are all dead.

Bewildered and questing, Jude makes an epic Odyssey across a dying and decaying landscape of corrupt countryside and crumbling cities, thinly peopled by savage killers and unworldly dreamers, in a desperate bid to discover what he is meant to do.

Along the winding way, he gathers new companions: a wretched waif, rescued from slavery and cannibalism, a mysterious woman of beauty and secrets, and an equally mysterious, though anything but beautiful, old man of unfathomable prophesies and ferocious violence. At times, Jude feels his tired old wagon horse is his only true ally as the once-clear dividing line between friend and foe becomes blurred.

In this futuristic re-telling of ancient Grail legends, Jude becomes knight errant in a joust to the death between fear and duty.

Will he become the saviour of humanity or its doomed scapegoat at the end of days ... when his quest finally brings him to The Tor?

With characters that become as familiar as personal friends and enemies, a story that is both vaguely remembered and vividly fresh, and pages that seem to turn in the wind, Liza Granville inspires her reader to ask, for new reasons, the age-old question ... is our very presence on the only planet we know intimately the problem or the solution? Are we Mother Nature’s children or her killer?