Buying the Fudebakudo Book
There are several ways to get a brand new copy of the Fudebakudo book.
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direct from the author (Here! Now! Free shipping!)
Buy from the Exploding Pen shop - from any bookshop in the UK
- from online booksellers
Sadly we don't do events any more, but if we did, you would have had the most fun buying the book from us at one of those.
Buy direct from Exploding Pen!
Buy the Fudebakudo book directly from Exploding Pen
The new regulations on VAT that are now being applied to international sales out of the UK are... problematic. So for now: we're not shipping Fudebakudo overseas, sorry. See also: the eurocrat.
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If you buy Fudebakudo from this online shop, you're buying directly from me, the author. You actually pay Exploding Pen Limited, which is the publishing part of Beholder, so you'll be supporting the next Beholder project. I will sign your book and (if you want) add a short dedication that you specify (you can add a little text when you checkout), provided it's nothing too distasteful. The most common reason I'm asked to write a dedication is because Fudebakudo seems to be a popular choice of gift after gradings, birthdays, or dubious competition victories (example dedication: “To Johnny... Sweep the leg”).
Buy from any bookshop in the UK
Little-known fact:
Because the Fudebakudo book is carried by
the UK's national distributor, you can order Fudebakudo directly from
any good bookshop in the UK, and most can have it for you within 24 hours.
Aw, bless them; considering how tiny Exploding Pen (the publishing operation
behind Fudebakudo) is, our dealings with the distributor, Gardners, have
always been rather sweet, such as the last
time the books were delivered by bike.
If you're in London you might be able to buy your copy off-the-shelf from London's premium independent bookshop Foyles, who were enthusiastic supporters of the Fudebakudo book when it was first published. In fact, they were our champion sellers for the first few years of the book's existence. They also used to have the biggest and best selection of martial arts books in London. Since then they've dropped the ball on the martial arts section, and sadly they're not so good at supporting little publishers like us any more, but if you're lucky one or two copies of the book may be on their shelves thanks to a slightly unorthodox supply arrangement we maintain. Just sayin'.
Buy from online booksellers
Fudebakudo is usually available from your favourite online book-selling site too, even if that's Amazon.
Buy wholesale
We're happy to trade direct with independent bookshops, martial arts stores or even dojos1. In the past we've supplied Foyles, GOSH Comics, Japan Centre, and Nine Circles (but not Shaolin Way in London's Chinatown back in 2003; they didn't like Fudebakudo :-( )
Contact Exploding Pen and ask!
1 Dojo/organisations: 10+ books.
