A Book Signing With A Difference...

The original cover which the OS spat their corporate dummy over and the new, bluer, OS-friendly edition on the right.

It's unusual to see an outdoors book being re-launched in an outdoors setting, but that's exactly what's happening with 'The hills are stuffed with Swedish girls', with a book-signing scheduled to take place at an altitude of 550 metres above Kinlochleven later this month.

OM regular, Elaina Smith – aka That Blonde Woman – takes up the story:

When “The hills are stuffed with Swedish girls” by Richard Happer hit the bookshelves last year there was a wee bit of a flurry over this debut novel as the Ordnance Survey had a paddy over the cover. Who’d have thought that a story about three blokes and their antics as they wander along the West Highland Way with their ginger cat could cause such a stooshie? 

Now that the legal action has been dropped, the second edition with new, OS-friendly, cover will be launched at a rather quirky venue for a book signing – the top of the Devil’s Staircase, Glencoe on the West Highland Way.

Weather permitting the event will kick off at 12 noon on Saturday September 18th with the added lure of sausage butties from the author.  That in itself has been enough to get a few OMers interested who are in Kinlochleven for a meet that weekend, oh that and the promise that there may be some Swedish girls...

The book even has its own web site at www.the-hills-are-stuffed-with-swedish-girls.com which handily gives a GR for the signing venue - 216 576 on OS sheet 41... 

And if you want to co-ordinate your sausage and autograph hunting with other OMers, check out this forum thread.