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Hello Ffordian Friends

I must start by saying sorry for how brief this is and how I have not been in touch. I passed my assessment (yay!) and was shunted into the backdrop of another publishers, fictional this time (can you guess which one?) Swindon is a distant memory now that I am capitalised, like another country. But I still remember you all fondly as the best friends a generic publishing assistant ever had. I don't have much time to fill you in - we don't get lunchbreaks here due to narrative assumption - so - very quickly...

There's a lovely account by Pineapple (not her real name) of what happened in Swindon on her website. The address is http://www.simplypineapple.co.uk/swindon/. There's not much more I can add to it, although if anyone took photographs, it'd be great if you flickr'd them on myf's page here: http://tinyurl.com/2bh2as.

Amy popped in with Miss Havisham to say a final hi and bye. She said to say she'd gotten hold of a bit of a recording of what came over the radios at the end and has posted it in her youtube. I asked her how she'd gotten hold of it and Miss Havisham glared at me and said not to ask such silly questions.

Jasper Fictional Fforde (that's why he had the extra F!) has been re-imprisoned on page 49 of the Real Jasper's copy of Treasure Island. I hear he's quite happy now, the weather's warm enough for him to wear his pantaloons and he's busy writing sea shanties for all the pirates. Text Grand Central is bracing itself for a mutiny of said pirates out of the book any time soon.

If you read First Among Sequels, you'll have seen that The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco (the fictional version) was erased. No wonder it was so desperate to break out. The real version (don't worry, my head hurts too if I try to make too much sense of it) has been tamed and placed online inside the competition site library. Although the password-lock didn't hold so it was just stuffed inside thewigwamandthewarpath.blogspot.com. It's quite tame now. Probably because it has all your wonderful scribbled words inside to keep it company.

Janet put up the competition winners (well done!) on unique-thinking. I only wish you could all have won. You were all great and though I never met many of you I miss you all. I'll try and pop into the background of the Next book by the real Jasper and wave a big hello.

Yours - but not goodbye!

June Haversham

friend [frend] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
2. a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter: friends of the Boston Symphony.
3. a person who is on good terms with another; a person who is not hostile: Who goes there? Friend or foe?
4. a member of the same nation, party, etc.
5. (initial capital letter) a member of the Religious Society of Friends; a Quaker.
–verb (used with object)
6. Rare. to befriend.
—Idiom
7. make friends with, to enter into friendly relations with; become a friend to.