Will and Don - self-publication is publication...by the way, did you, Will, send a copy of your DVDs to the half-a-dozen or so compulsory libraries - "compulsory", at least, for books? (For what it's worth, both my (ISBN-less) A4 "Walkabouts..." paperback, and my CD "Chants from Walkabouts" were received by them...Brit. Lib., one in Oxford, Cambridge, etc.) And then I noticed Stigweard gave much more detail on this matter which I agree with. But, one other thing, it's true that without an ISBN retailers are unlikely to stock a book, but libraries may - and have done for me - make one up.

And, as for "elsewhere" and all the mud just thrown, I'll copy/paste this time, from the same, abovementioned, site...

"...And some Walkaboutsverse has also been published in The North East Poetry Journal, The Northern Lines poetry journal, Newcastle's Evening Chronicle newspaper, Gateshead Library's talking newspaper, as well as Kent Folk News, & has been recited on local radio."

But as for: "and for which you received a financial advance and for which you are currently receiving periodic royalty checks" (Don)...everything I've done so far on the folk and poetry scene has been as an amateur - just a few mini- free entry/drinks-type gigs/spots.

And the transverse flute, Don, is also known as the German flute.

Pip - as I DID suggest above, are you sure travellers can't keep their culture going, from now on, within a nation?

Thanks for those tips, Paul and Stu - I have an old/slowish computer.

Gervase - I prefer to live in the land of my birth, England.