Barrister and writer Tim Kevan has withdrawn the BabyBarista Blog from The Times in reaction to their plans to hide it away behind a subscription-based paywall. He commented: “I didn’t start this blog for it to be the exclusive preserve of a limited few subscribers. I wrote it to entertain whosoever wishes to read it.” The re-launched site is at www.babybarista.com and includes numerous cartoons of the blog’s characters by Times cartoonist Alex Williams.
By way of background, BabyBarista is a fictional account of a junior barrister at the English Bar. The stories he tells appeared on The Times for over three years and they also led to him getting two book deals with Harry Potter’s publisherBloomsbury. BabyBarista and the Art of War was published as a trade paperback last year and was described by broadcaster Jeremy Vine as “a wonderful racing read – well-drawn, smartly plotted and laugh out loud” and by The Times as “a cross between the talented Mr Ripley, Rumpole and Bridget Jones’s Diary”. A mass market edition with the new title Law and Disorder is due out in August. Book Two of the BabyBarista Files will also be published by Bloomsbury. The provisional title is Law and Peace and although a date hasn’t been finalised it is likely to be published in 2011.
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Hi Michael, Thanks very much for this. really appreciate the support as always. I’ve put up a link to this blog on the BabyBarista site. Very best wishes, Tim
Tim
You’re very welcome and thanks for the link. The new website looks great and I love the cartoons. Good luck with it.
Kind regards
Michael
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Thanks Michael, much appreciated. I’ve mentioned you in a new post as well as having added you to the blog roll. Very best wishes, Tim
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