Academic Inn Books Partnerships

Academic Inn Books is a confederation of Book Title Partnerships (BTPs). Each partnership issues 48 non-transferable shares and is owned by its wordsmiths (16 shares), picture makers (16) and merchant adventurers (16). A further 16 transferable shares are available for free shareholders in exchange for work (free labour shares) or money (free capital shares).

Rye Maritime Heritage Partnership

The original intention was to publish the colour version of Rye From the Water’s Edge as a ‘coffee table millennium edition’ in three volumes. But technology for the processing of words, talk and pictures has moved rapidly. So in 1999 the Rye Maritime Heritage Partnership was created to publish the historic parts of Rye From the Water’s Edge. The Rye Maritime Heritage Collection is the first project from this partnership and went on public display for the first time at the Rye Treasury for the Rye Festival in September 2000.

Rye from the Water's Edge by John Seymour is a hard back A6 landscape book with 75 pen & ink illustrations by Connie Lindqvist published in 1996. It includes period depictions of Rye, Winchelsea and Romney Marsh and was previously published as three A5 landscape books. 'The Sealanes of Rye' looked at Rye's seafaring history and the local fishing industry; 'The Water Trails of Rye' told of the inland waterways and the barges that plied their trade on the Rother. 'The Byways of Rye' touched on smuggling, natural disasters, raft races, bonfire boys and the Rye of one hundred years hence. An enlarged A4 three-book digitial colour millennium edition is being planned as both a compact disc and a printed book.

Crocodile Uppsala Partnership

The Private Papers of Crocodile Uppsala by William Shepherd were created in 1993 as a 'telling in words and pictures based on the letters of William Shepherd and the sketches of Connie Lindqvist' and published during 1993 and 1994 as twelve A5 landscape booklets with colour covers and 240 pen & ink pictures. The CrocUpp books trace the story of a year in the lives of William Shepherd in Rye England and his son Nicholas John in Queensland, Australia...with a little help from their friends Ilbereth, Aslak, Harold, Marley, Wally, Roo, Kyllikki, Annikki, Kooka, K.F.Brede, Mervin, Sven Ripemovski, Valkko, Suivakka...and then some...

Seymour Illustrated Verse Partnership

John Seymour's Illustrated Verse is a series of five CD-sized books of poetry in soft-back with full colour cover and pen & ink illustrations. 'Seymour's Seamarks' with illustrations by Connie Lindqvist was published in March 1995. 'The Jolly Boys in The Coats of White' with Kate Seymour, 'My Old Man' with Mike Avery and 'Dancing Leaves' with Sally Seymour are to be published in 1999. The CD-sized soft-back of the fifth book 'Animals Talk Back' with pen & ink drawings by Connie Lindqvist will be published in 1999 with a full colour larger size edition for the young children's book market following in 2000.

Father Christmas Partnership

The Quest for Father Christmas was written by John Papworth while working for the President of Zambia in 1970. It was unearthd in a St. John's Wood attic in 1992 and set to pictures by Connie Lindqvist in 1993. The Quest is the story of a group of children who set out to find Father Christmas. In their travels they meet up with The Three Kings, Mary & Joseph, Good King Wenceslas, The Good Witch and The Old Lamplighter. A morality tale set at Christmas time and written as a musical entertainment in which children take the leading parts and everyone else can sing their favourite carols to their hearts' content.

Linnaeus Journeys Partnership

On 10th May 1998 Connie Lindqvist set sail for the Baltic island of Gotland in her 30-foot gaff-cutter Vemara and berthed in Visby at midsummer. Connie devoted the next three months to following in Linnaeus' footsteps from anchorages and small harbours around the island. In December 1998 the sketches from her Linnaeus Journey went on display at the Rye Treasury. From May to September 2000 Connie's 1998 sketchbooks, photographs, logbooks and journals are scheduled to be uploaded onto the internet each day so others can experience her first Linnaeus Journey...from the comfort of their own armchair.

31st December 1998