I believe that was the joke. 😃

You'd think since I'd invented the term for my books that I'd remember how to pluralise sodding vesitigia.

It’s meaningless marketing speak. In that period everything vaguely epic fantasy was compared to Tolkien. Like most marketing blurbs eg. A mix of Harry Potter and CSI it’s whatever sells in America slapped on anything of vaguely similar genre.

See I even did it in the post - it's Art Nouveau - idiot boy.

And now we can add art neuveu to that list as well. It's the bloody *e* at the start - my brain insists it should be *nu*.

Weirdly I learnt to spell bureaucracy through playing the Infocom game

And don't get me started on effing manoeuvring...

That’s so going in a book at the next opportunity

For the visually impaired (I forgot to alt text it) the image is of the cover of THE CENTAURI DEVICE by M JOHN HARRISON.