Monthly Archives: February 2024

Boisjoly Back in Buccaneering Baffler!

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Mystery and Malice aboard RMS Ballast, the eighth Anty Boisjoly Mystery, embarks for the open seas on March 1st and, finally, we have a pirate number.

Anty, Vickers, Inspector Wittersham, and a passenger list of howling eccentrics find themselves prey to the sway and spray of the Scilly Seas when what at first seems a simple, unexplainable, locked-stateroom murder twists into a tale of buried treasure, perilous weather and dangerous endeavours at sea.

When we first embark, romance is in the ocean air as Anty conspires to win the heart of Frederica Hannibal-Pool aboard her uncle’s yacht, but when dashing Dare Flashburn joins the journey telling tales of pirate gold, the moonlight crossing becomes a stormy odyssey of mutiny and murder and mal de mer.

Mystery and Malice aboard RMS Ballast is available on pre-order as of here and now.

There’s a cryptic clue to one of many mysteries aboard RMS Ballast in this month’s newsletter which also features two new Anty cartoons. Get your February newsletter now while supplies last:  http://indefensiblepublishing.com/newsletters/

Spam Recipes

Posted on by Standard 2

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Example of spam, from this February’s newsletter and the seance scene in Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling.

Recently a global new methodology has been introduced to combat junk mail. The measure, in simple terms, requires that mass mailings be sent from a high-level domain the DNS settings for which include specific DMARC entries pointing to network-traceable reverse neuromix memblemeasures, the NOSTRIL values of which are furismically distributed. It’s a little more complicated than that, but that’s it in a nutshell.

And of course there was much rejoicing, because who likes spam? Your spam folder likes spam, that’s who, and in fact it likes it so much that, in conjunction with the above-mentioned counter-measures, it sometimes extends its reach beyond its grasp.

My very unscientific dart-in-the-dark analysis suggests that roughly half of Anty Boisjoly’s newsletters are being thusly diverted to the recipient’s junk mail folder. I’ve since implemented the required DNS changes (or, rather, I think I have — I may well have accidentally hacked into NASA) but, what with the notoriously closed-minded habit-prone practices of your poorly socialised email algorithm, once a spam always a spam.

So, if you signed up for the Anty Boisjoly intermittent newsletter and didn’t get one, there’s an excellent chance that it’s in your spam folder (or was once in your spam folder but has since been digested). If you add the source email address (pj.fitzsimmons@indefensiblepublishing.com) to your contacts or simply identify the newsletter as not spam, that should solve the problem for the future. If you can’t find it at all don’t hesitate for an instant to write and say so, again, to pj.fitzsimmons@indefensiblepublishing.com.

The latest number is out, by the way, and so if you don’t have the February edition announcing a new Anty Boisjoly, the next audiobook release date, a cryptic clue and two cartoons, and it’s not in your spam folder, it’s possible that you haven’t signed up yet. The solution for this, happily, is uncomplicated, and can be found here: http://indefensiblepublishing.com/newsletters/

A Twisty Misty Listeny Mystery

Posted on by Standard 3

Production is sufficiently advanced to lay claim to a publication date for the audiobook of The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich, Anty’s twisty misty whisky mystery.

Tim Bruce returns this time as Anty and Vickers and two entire Scottish villages, sheep included, and manages to keep everyone distinct and distilled and delightful, even after the whisky kicks in during a golf match which is frankly hilarious on paper but which Tim raises to a pro tour de force.

In The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich, Anty travels to the timeless source waters of Glen Glennegie to help decide the fate of his family’s favourite ferment, but an impossible locked room murder is only one of a multitude of mysteries that try Anty’s wits and witticisms to their northern limit.

Time trickles down on the traditional tipple as Anty unravels family feuds, ruptured romance, shepherdless sheep, and a series of suspiciously surfacing secrets to sort out who killed whom and how and why and who might be next to die.

We know from experience that the universe laughs at those who announce specific publication dates for their audiobooks, so let’s say that The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich will be available on audio from around March 1st. In practice, it should start appearing in your favourite storefronts from February 21st and then gently age in a barrel of Audible until some special moment in early March.