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JIMBO MAKES IT TO THE TABLE READ
Jimbo's Assumption, featured in The Table Read during September.Introduced by a great summary of the story, saying it “follows a student’s journey from ordinary life to cosmic adventure as he encounters extraterrestrial intelligence, exploring human progress and celestial mysteries”.
Please check it out. The pace picks up, starting “from the groundbreaking creation of Dolly the Sheep to high-stakes chases across Edinburgh, Jimbo's Assumption is a rollercoaster of science and adventure. Follow Jimbo as he navigates this thrilling world with new abilities and a galactic guide.
Ready for the ride?”A more serious take on the work, from an Amazon review, sees it as “a recommended read for both young adults and more mature fans of the magic of engineering and wonders of emerging civilisation”.All are accurate. When asked about the genre, I usually respond with ‘20% sci-fi, 40% science, and 40% history, all entwined with a light-hearted crime tale.’
The Table Read is a magazine accessible online “celebrating and promoting arts, entertainment and creativity”. Film and music content are also accommodated.A superb platform for Jimbo and his nebulous minder.Another piece, focused on the author (yours truly) will follow soon.Exciting times for Jimbo!
NEW VIDEO
Our human imagination seems boundless to me. Is it expanding? How to measure it? Do we lose older ideas and insights as we progress? My readers will know that 221 regards the Homo sapiens brain as the galaxy's most complex machine. Abstractions to me, an engineer whose life has been spent trying to fit quarts into pint pots.
The written word, via books, libraries, disk drives, and clouds, has been our route to capture wisdom, knowledge, history, and even humour. Laws and cultural norms, too.
“A picture is worth a thousand words”, an adage attributed to Henrik Ibsen, offers an alternative. Sufficiently persuasive to become a (slightly reworded) pop song but adopted rather earlier by our cave-dwelling ancestors. Thereafter, through da Vinci and Constable to the twentieth century and movies. Perhaps a video is worth a million words?
Seeing or experiencing something provides superior learning outcomes to merely being told. The rationale behind six years of fun-filled schoolboy physics and chemistry experiments in my case, some still remembered. Validating Hooke’s Law was an early one. My blog offers an introduction to the remarkable Robert Hooke.
To conclude my meanderings, the hot news is that a video now exists, introducing Jimbo’s Assumptionwhile depicting a little of the unique Edinburgh cityscape.
JIMBO'S ASSUMPTION
A Publishers Weekly Select Feature on Jimbo's Assumption will launch on Monday, 29 April 2024. Regarded by many as the bible of the book business, PW targets the international book publishing industry, attracting a readership that includes publishers, booksellers, librarians, literary agents, and the media.
Jimbo's Assumption will also feature on the homepages of PublishersWeekly.com and BookLife.com.
Additionally, the work will appear in the BookLife Report weekly
e-newsletter, reaching a potential 24,000 subscribers.
Having the title displayed by PW and BookLife is a great chance for it to be seen, front and centre before an informed global readership, giving wide exposure to the work and potentially generating new openings.
One such opportunity could be a book review by either PW or BookLife. To be pursued. An update to follow.
A debut in PW so soon after publication is a coup for Jimbo's Assumption, surely a portent of further success.
With a sequel already in progress, a second odyssey through our scientific lineage for Jimbo while thwarting criminality, this early exposure via the infrastructure offered by PW is welcome and will prove positive.
As Oscar Wilde observed: "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
Exciting times for Jimbo. Stay tuned!
