The Velvet Paw of Asquith Novels

Diplomacy was paramount of course, as the Loud Purr insisted on analysing the scri...

Self-Derogatory Advertising (SDA)

 In determining the best way to market these books, it occurred that their style does not fit with the sort of positive, optimistic messages conventional advertising utilises. When considering the following slogans to promote them, bathrooms were sought for less conventional reason than one might traditionally anticipate.

Phrases such as:

 “Romantic, absurd, light-hearted”

 or

 “Any hope...

I first met Oscar Teabg-Dooven in a transit lounge of a large international airport nearly three years ago. It was one of those gold-club-flight things where one attempts to convince oneself not to be wasting hours of life, by eating and drinking and then flushing it down a toilet.  I had a three-hour wait at a broken coffee machine, while Oscar was busy gorging himself at the buffet table.

I noticed him for two reasons. Firstly he was a cat with no ears, and secondly ...

The Velvet Paw of Asquith novels have branched out into a many splendid thing. No longer merely tales of  endearing creatues thrown into the bizarre battles of curiosa to save their world, these tales have blossomed into all manner of creative expression: songs, paintings, prose, poetry...

I am particularly grateful to Oscar for his permitting my inclusion of his imagist verse and paintings. The former having never existed except in his wisps of thought. The latter...