The launch for Chocolate and Zucchini by Clotilde Dusoulier went well - about one hundred people, brisk book sales, the unlikely appearance of Jude Law in the building, who ate a plate of our Chocolate and Zucchini food (apparently the chocolate and raspberry cake went down the best - it's very easy to make, thank goodness, when you are baking for a hundred, it had better be), and met Clotilde.


Now for our next problem - in the past month two of our staff of four have found pastures new - and these are really good people. I wish them the best - Amy Christian has gone to children's book publisher Anness, and Holly Macdonald starts as a cover designer at Transworld in July. Now, why did I train them too well....

So, Kit Maude will join us from Peter Owen Publishers, and we need an in house cover designer, and type-setter, for two days a week. We are very happy to employ an illustrator (like Holly) who had never designed a cover before - just hope to hang onto them for longer next time...