Author:Charlotte Stone

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Pseudonym

Charlotte Stone is a pseudonym for Dominique Nightingale and Charles Nightingale. Maxim Jakubowski was their agent for The Four Wishes (1983). This has been confirmed via:

  • A January 2007 e-mail from Maxim Jakubowski to ISFDB editor Marc Kupper which states "The Cheon book has been attributed to me in the past, and I had some involvement in it (which caused the mistake) but I was not the author."
  • An April 2011 e-mail from Charles and Dominique Nightingale to Marc Kupper which states "Yes, Dominique Nightingale and I, Charles Nightingale co-authored this book. Maxim Jakubovski was our agent."

Another item that connects the Nightingales to the author name Charlotte Stone is the back cover of Cheon, Witch Warrior which states "Credit for Graphic: Charles Nightingale."

Online, is this article by Dominique Nightingale. At the bottom is "Dominique Nightingale's first book, a fantasy for children was published in 1978, in France. She has had another fantasy published in the US, Cheon of Weltanland."

As it's a pseudonym it's not clear how factual the "About the Author" blurb in Cheon, Witch Warrior is. For the record, it states.

Charlotte Stone lives in England and has authored a number of novels, short stories and articles, in both English and French. Her interests include history, languages, art and science. She is married with two teenage sons. She is a frequent visitor to the far South-West of France.

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

A credit for Maxim Jakubowski as being the author behind the name Charlotte Stone was added and subsequently removed from the The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by Peter Nicholls with John Clute.

  • This web page is apparently an addendum issued September 4th, 1993 by the encyclopedia editors and St Martin's Press. Presumably that update is for the May 1993 edition. The addendum states "JAKUBOWSKI, MAXIM (p637): As Charlotte Stone, MJ wrote "Cheon of Weltanland: The Four Wishes" (1983 US)" and "STONE, CHARLOTTE: New cross-reference entry to Maxim JAKUBOWSKI." Thus it appears that at some point in 1993 the encyclopedia editors ran across information linking Jakubowski to the name Charlotte Stone.
  • The 1994 edition of the encyclopedia may be a published edition that includes the Maxim Jakubowski credit.
  • This page is a September 2002 update that was apparently published as an appendix in the November 1995 edition by St Martin's Press edition. The update/appendix states "JAKUBOWSKI, MAXIM (p. 637): A former version of the addenda claimed that as Charlotte Stone, MJ wrote Cheon of Weltanland: The Four Wishes (1983 US). This book was written by Charles and Dominique Nightingale; MJ merely acted as agent."

Hawk’s Authors’ Pseudonyms

The bibliographic reference Hawk’s Authors’ Pseudonyms III (Apr 1999) written & compiled by Pat Hawk; edited by Donna Hawk has an entry for Maxim Jakubowski that says he uses Charlotte Stone. It reports the source for that pseudonym is Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms.

Who's Hugh?

Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) reports that Charlotte Stone is a pseudonym for Maxim Jakubowski and that the source for this was "Andromeda Bookshop Catalogs. Issued regularly by Andromeda Bookshop, 84 Suffolk St., Birmingham, England." Unfortunately, Who's Hugh? did not report on which catalog(s) were the source.

Andromeda Bookshop

The Andromeda Bookshop catalogs were mentioned as a source by Who's Hugh?. This book store closed in 2002 and was located at 84 Suffolk Street, Birmingham, England. An April-2011 search was unable to locate any copies of their catalogue on line.

The andromedabook.co.uk web site is no longer for the book store nor was it archived by the WayBack Machine.

Drunken Dragon Press used the same street address which was 84 Suffolk St., Birmingham, B1 1TA, England. This page says that the publisher, Rog Peyton, later launched the Andromeda book company. The Rog Peyton Wikipedia article says he is selling on line as Replay Books. A Replay Books of Birmingham is on line at AbeBooks. I've e-mailed Mr. Peyton there to see if any of the old catalogs are available. --Marc Kupper|talk 01:23, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Mr. Peyton replied that while he has hard copies of all 221 editions of the Andromeda Bookshop catalogue that he had deleted the computer versions years ago. He has been passing pseudonym findings on to Roger Robinson who is the editor of Who's Hugh?. --Marc Kupper|talk 06:52, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

It appears that after the SF bookstore closed that an on-line bookseller for astronomy books started using the andromedabook.co.uk domain name but it seems this was not operated by Rog Peyton. For example, This January 2004 Astronomy club newsletter mentions "ANDROMEDA BOOKS CATALOGUE #13 The new catalogue from Andromeda Books is available online at: http://www.andromedabooks.co.uk If you would prefer a printed copy then you can request one by ‘phoning them on (01908) 312046. Their free catalogues usually come out about 3 or 4 times a year.

http://www.eaas.co.uk/resources.html says "Andromeda books http://www.m31books.co.uk Andromeda books is run by Annie and Mike Eynon. We are a postal book selling business, specializing in : out of print, rare, used, and hard to find Astronomy and Art books."

On the Internet

The Nightingales have a fairly low profile on the Internet. Known sites/articles are:

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