Show your support for ‘The Gin Lane Gazette’!

Friend of the GMI, Adrian Teal is writing an illustrating an historical romp called ‘The Gin Lane Gazette; and you can help get it published.

Details of his work are shown on the Unbound website which is a new way of connecting with writers. http://www.unbound.co.uk/books/22 Unbound allows you to listen to the ideas of authors and if you like their idea, you can pledge to support it. If they hit the target number of supporters, the author can go ahead and start writing.
There are several levels of support, each with different rewards. The higher your pledge, the greater the rewards you’ll receive, from your name in the back of the book to lunch with the author.
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The GIN LANE GAZETTE will be a compendium of illustrated ‘best bits’ from a fictional newspaper of the latter 1700s. It will contain some of the most sensational headlines and true stories of the period. The presses will be presided over by inky-fingered hack Mr. Nathaniel Crowquill, the editor and proprietor, whose premises are located in Hogarth’s chaotic Gin Lane, and who has devoted fifty years to sniffing out scandal and intrigue. His drunken acolyte, Mr. Jakes, supplies merciless caricatures and engravings for every page. Sports reports, obituaries, fashion news, courtesans of the month, book reviews, and advertisements for bizarre – and often alarming – goods, services and entertainments will also feature in a riotous mélange of metropolitan mayhem.

Adrian has spent fifteen years producing cartoons for clients such as the Sunday Telegraph, History Today and QI, and hopes to give you an authentic flavour of the exuberance, debauchery, bravery, inventiveness, and eccentricity which characterise the Georgian world.

Please support him!