lukebellmason

Q1 REPORT At the end of December Bellmason Books completed its first quarter as a publisher, and with only one title currently in our catalogue the sales results are very surprising. When I first uploaded The Quanta-B Tales to Amazon I was worried that I wouldn’t sell a single copy, but I am pleased to announce that I have sold a single copy. Added to the three hardback books sold at the launch this makes four copies of the book sold, which averages out to 1.3 books per month. There is some...

INTRODUCTION I wrote most of this story while I was cleaning my teeth, which is usually quite boring. You can’t really listen to the radio or concentrate on music when you’re brushing your teeth, so I find it helps to think about something else. After brushing, there’s plenty of time to think about what you were thinking about while you were cleaning your teeth, but you tend to concentrate better when you’re lying in bed in the dark. The idea for this story really goes back to the first...

CRAFTING Many years ago, I was given a set of Enterprise models by a friend who was having a clear out. The ships were all to scale and went from the original NCC 1701 all the way through to the Enterprise-E. None of the models were painted, and there was a single sheet with all the decals on. I used to make model aeroplanes when I was a teenager, but my set of paints and brushes had long since dried out, and I never really felt the urge to go out and spend money on new paints and kit, so the...