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Final Instalment Day: enrolment instructions

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How to get ‘The Companion’, a novel by William Thirsk-Gaskill, free of charge:

  1. Send me an email requesting the first of the two PDF files.
  2. Read the PDF file.  Feel free to post comments on it here, or send them to me by email. 
  3. Send me another email requesting the second of the two PDF files.  Don’t do this until you have completed step 2.
  4. Repeat step 2 on the second PDF file. 
  5. Send me an email asking to be put on the distribution list for Final Instalment Day. 

Some of those reading this will know my email address already.  If you don’t know it, please use this one:

wjtg2@my.open.ac.uk

All the material covered by these instructions is copyright © William Thirsk-Gaskill 2011.  Each file so supplied is for the personal use of the named recipient only, and may not be traded, sold, reverse-engineered, amended, emailed, posted on an intranet or Internet, displayed on an overhead projector or similar equipment, broadcast wirelessly, or processed by any means other than being read by the natural person who is the recipient, except with the advance written permission of the author.  If the material is printed, then these conditions apply to all printout thus produced.

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Final Instalment Day

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Following the rejection of the first three chapters of 'The Companion' by two agents, I am thinking of ways to promote volume 1 of 'The Companion'. One of these will be to write volume 2, which I have already started thinking about.

Interest in 'The Companion' seems to be re-awakening, probably because of the intake of people who had not heard of it into the A363 class. I have had a couple of requests recently for the first of the PDF files, and I intend to solicit some more. I expect that most people who read the first PDF will want the second one and hence the final instalment.

When I was converting it into PDFs, I decided that I would send the final instalment free of charge to anybody who had provided reasonable feedback on the earlier parts. I have now decided to modify that plan.

I am going to institute Final Instalment Day. For one day only, anybody who asks by email will be able to receive, free of charge, the final instalment of 'The Companion'. The only condition is that I must be satisfied that the individual concerned has read the rest of the story.

The date I have set for Final Instalment Day is 18 March 2012: the day after the announcement of the 'Fish' short fiction competition, which I have entered.

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