by Kim M Watt
Serve. There will be stickiness. It will be glorious. Embrace it.
Afterword
I would very much like to extend another apology to the people of Skipton for taking terrible liberties with their road layout. That street was just not steep enough for what I needed. Also, I’m quite sure their councillors are much more efficient and less cake-obsessed.
The parts to do with dragons are, of course, entirely true …
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Lovely reader, thank you so much for coming along on the Beaufort Scales journey. If this is your first encounter with the Cloverly dragons and the ladies of the Toot Hansell Women’s Institute, welcome! Now you get to start from the beginning with Baking Bad. And if you’ve been along for the whole scaly, tea-fuelled ride, thank you.
Either way, I hope you enjoyed Game of Scones, and if you did (or didn’t), I’d appreciate it so much if you could take the time to pop a quick review up at your favourite retailer, on GoodReads, or at the website of your choice. It helps me reach more readers, encourages others to pick up my books, and makes me terribly happy. Plus, reviews are writer fuel. We write much better when well-fuelled.
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And, because you’re entirely wonderful, I have free things for you! You can grab yourself a free book of Beaufort short stories (including how that whole barbecue business began) by heading over to the website at kmwatt.com/ or straight to www.subscribepage.com/talesofbeaufortscales and getting yourself signed up for the newsletter.
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Because this is most certainly not the end.
Thanks again for reading, lovely people.
Read on!
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Beaufort Scales, High Lord of the Cloverly dragons, is rather tired of being a High Lord, and quite fancies a quiet retirement in front of a warm fire, with the odd rabbit for tea.
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Then came the barbecues.
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And the bauble market, because if one has barbecues one needs money to buy gas bottles.
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And then the Toot Hansell Women's Institute, some most wonderful cake, and some very new friendships.
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Beaufort Scales is crashing into the modern world, ready or not (the world, that is. He's very ready, and very, very interested...)
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A Toot Hansell short story collection, starting where it all began — with one very shiny barbecue ...
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Acknowledgments
To you, lovely reader, who has taken a gamble on a book about tea-drinking, mystery-solving dragons. And local politics. Whether it’s your first time in Toot Hansell or your fourth, thank you. You are entirely awesome.
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As always, to all my wonderful reading and writing friends, who have encouraged, cheerleadered (that’s a word. I’m a writer), beta-read, critiqued, given feedback, shared bad jokes, and generally been amazing and wonderful and made me feel so very lucky to know you. You know who you are. You are amazing.
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To Lynda Dietz at Easy Reader Editing, who is unfailingly funny, wonderful, supportive and just generally one of the best people I know. She really does the most extraordinary job of making sure I don’t embarrass myself with confusing word order (especially the question of whether the garden or the person smells of cut grass) and the weird UK/US English hybrid that I speak. Any mistakes left in are mine. Except for cheerleadered. That’s a word.
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And, always, to Mick, who knows the best recipes for cakes, the oddest Yorkshire phrases, and the most effective way to calm frazzled writers.
It tends to involve cake, tea, and belief. Powerful things, those.
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I did not forget the Little Furry Muse. How could I? But I’m trying not to draw her attention to Thompson. He’s being far too cooperative for her tastes.
About the Author
Hi. I’m Kim, and in addition to the Beaufort Scales stories I write other funny, magical books that offer a little escape from the serious stuff in the world and hopefully leave you a wee bit happier than you were when you started. Because happiness, like friendship, matters.
I write about baking-obsessed reapers setting up baby ghoul petting cafes, and ladies of a certain age joining the Apocalypse on their Vespas. I write about friendship, and loyalty, and lifting each other up, and the importance of tea and cake.
And mostly I write about how wonderful people (of all species) can really be.
You can find me doing bloggy things at www.kmwatt.com, as well as on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
Read on!
Also by Kim M. Watt
The Beaufort Scales Series (cozy mysteries with dragons):
Baking Bad (Book 1)
Yule Be Sorry (Book 2)
A Manor of Life & Death (Book 3)
Game of Scones (Book 4)
The Beaufort Scales Collection (Books 1 - 4, e-book only)
A Toot Hansell Christmas Cracker - a festive short story & recipe collection
Book 5 coming Summer 2021!
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The Gobbelino London, PI series:
A Scourge of Pleasantries (Book 1)
A Contagion of Zombies (Book 2)
A Complication of Unicorns (Book 3)
A Melee of Mages (Book 4)
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Head to kmwatt.com/my-books for details!