I have many things to do. In fact I was stuck in a car park earlier on – don’t ask – and I was scribbling down ideas for Cult Challenges for 2024.
I’m not proud to say it, but you can tell I was feeling sorry for myself as they were all turning into things like
“Things that people think I am really good at but that I am really not very good at”
and
“1001 ways to apologise for being late”
…and it struck me that I should just read something instead, something that never fails to cheer me up, inspires me and generally makes me feel good about the world.
But what? I was stuck in a car park (literally. Which was not a good thing, it was a bit on the whiffy side, with a last-night-at-Glastonbury-toilet-queue vibe) and so just went and looked for a Stickleback on this web site, and found an old friend in Jeremy Reed’s one he did for us. I do love it rather lots.
Anyway, I read it (and you can too Here if you want to see what I mean) and what struck me was that it is still brilliant, but that nobody had ever done a review for it on our web site.
I couldn’t believe it, it is stunning and not one person out of the hundreds and hundreds who have downloaded it, or bought a print copy from Jeremy or got one in a Cult box back in the day had ever felt a yearning to share their thoughts with the world.
It felt bizarre.
So I looked at all of the Sticklebacks and most of our titles and it was the same story – nobody ever left reviews.
And I couldn’t work out why so I had a look and to be honest it took me a minute to notice that to leave a Review wasn’t as easy as it should be – you have to click on the word REVIEWS below the picture on the product page to reveal the form that let’s you leave some words.
It is pretty much a WordPress hidden page thing that you have to click on…and so I realised it is entirely my fault as I don’t actually point people at them. Not that I am technically equipped to change the non-descriptness of it all, but the links I give people can be different – a trick I missed.
In future I will, and I’m going to do something crazy magical to help people discover the Sticklebacks and books and pamphlets we publish better – but that is for another day.
So, if you have a wee minute – please do me a favour.
If you download Jeremy’s Stickleback, when you have had a read, and a ponder too, if you need one – would you please, please and pretty please, leave a wee review or comment on the web site for me?
It doesn’t have to say much, just something at all would be truly magical.
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD AND LEAVE A REVIEW AT THIS LINK
There, maybe that will remove the stench from my schnozz