Spring Cleaning

We're trying to clean out lots of things this spring, inventorywise. We have a room full of non-literary products as well as thousands of books that we need to put on clearance, so if you're interested in one of our t-shirts or our VIRGINIANA books, just go to our www.RebelKing.com website and you can navigate through all of our products. Most have greatly reduced prices so that we can move them out to make room for (1) Rebel King, Book Four, High King of Ireland (see previous posting), and (2) new designs on our tees. Besides, I want my family room back!

Just a quick note to our wee bonny lass in Florida, who's been in rehab lately. Alice, we're sorry to hear that you've been down, but we're happy to hear that you'll be "sprung" ere long.

We recently vowed to spend four hours every day working on the book, but of course that's pie in the sky. No sooner does one make such a pledge than other things come in "over the transom"*, making it all but impossible to follow through with the pledge. Let it be known, however, that we are not merely frittering away our time, but actually tending to business. "He" has been signing us up to be vendors at myriad games this season, including some new ones. (Check our "Appearances" page at www.rebelking.com to see where we expect to be throughout the year. We hope you drop by our tent when we're at an event near you.) I'll try to let you know ahead of our "next" appearance... but don't hold me to it!

Also, if you have bought our books through some other means than from our website, shame on you! ;~) No, seriously, if you have purchased or been given our book(s) and they haven't been signed by us, bring it/them with you when you attend one of our scheduled events. We'll be happy to sign them. No extra charge!

Now, if I could just hold a great big yard sale and get rid of old toys, clothes, odds and ends, and such things as the perfectly good charger for the cell phone I washed in someone's jeans pocket (no names will be mentioned). Interestingly enough, that was the second consecutive cell phone we drowned. The first was placed in a store bag for ease of carrying, the bag was absentmindedly put into our ice chest, and as the ice melted the poor phone was immersed and drowned.

Thanks for visiting. I hope to have another posting up, soon! Won't that be a surprise! CDHB

*This is one of those idioms that most young folks won't understand because they have no ken of what a "transom" is. So I'll tell you... a transom is a board above a door (or window) that separates the door opening from a small window or fanlight above it. As can be seen in some older apartment and office buildings, the windows above the transom were often openable and closeable for purposes of controlling ventilation (early air conditioning). It was also possible to toss items, i.e. letters, newspapers, etc., through the open window and "over the transom". -C.