- TESTIMONIALS -

"Mundae just arrived! What a fantastically menacing tale, it made me chuckle :)" - J.G., UK

"I also love the chapbook, I read it and couldn't stop laughing. Mundae is hilarious and when my grandson is old enough and his nerves have toughened up a bit I shall read it to him as a bedtime story." - P.D, UK

"Just wanted to say we received your book (Mundae) last week and it's wonderful! The story, honestly, creeped me out a bit! but i think that may have been your intention. :)"   - M.D, USA

"I received your book ('Mundae') in the mail yesterday. I read it last night. I loved the story line. Whimsical and scary all at the same time. Even made me laugh. Of course the illos accompanying the text was fantastic." - C.D.M, USA

"I wanted to thank you for my copy of the chapbook 'Mundae'. It was a very amusing tale, loved the artwork in it too." - D.W., USA

What is a chapbook, you may ask? Good question -- although the answer may not be a simple one. You will find many variations of definitions for the chapbook if you do a search. The following are a few excerpts: "A chapbook is a generic term to cover a particular genre of pocket-sized booklets, popular from the sixteenth through to the later part of the nineteenth century. No exact definition can be applied. Chapbook can mean anything that would have formed part of the stock of chapmen, a variety of peddler."

"The term chapbook originates from the Early Modern period in England, where peddlers called chapmen sold small books or pamphlets containing various types of writing by authors of the day."

"A chapbook is best described as a pamphlet-type publication consisting of previously unpublished short stories (and the occasional non-fiction piece) that an author has provided us to help promote his/her signed limited edition. The chapbooks generally range from 8 to 60 pages in length and are stapled in such a manner as a magazine. They can not be purchased from shops or dealers and are extremely scarce and highly collectable."

"Chapbooks gradually disappeared from the mid nineteenth century, as competition from cheap newspapers, and, especially in Scotland, religious tract societies which regarded them as 'ungodly'. Although the form originated in Britain there was significant production in the same period in the USA and equivalents continue to be produced in South America into modern times."

"Chapbooks are mostly small paper-covered booklets, usually printed on a single sheet folded into books of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts, which sometimes bear no relation to the text..... however, the category has no real limits: some chapbooks were long, some well produced, and some even historically accurate."