@athelstone
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Athelstone replied to the topic Cover reveal for This Is Our Undoing in the forum Podium 5 years, 5 months ago
So. Many. Ways. That’s horrifying.
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 5 months ago
Today we had our 10,000th post. Well done Denizens! Keep posting.
I can’t see it, so I suspect it’s in a private group, somewhere.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Cover reveal for This Is Our Undoing in the forum Podium 5 years, 5 months ago
It is, isn’t it?
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Athelstone posted a new activity comment 5 years, 5 months ago
I hope this isn’t a sign of things to come. While I was checking your blog’s status, I spotted two other posts for “approval”. One was from @libby and the other from @raine. Libby, apologies. The post has a date indicating that it was created yesterday, but the number suggests it’s much older. It’s your post on bookshops and the impact of covid.…[Read more]
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No problem, @athelstone
I thought at the time that as I’d started a new thread, it was waiting for moderation. Then I sort of forgot about it. It was from last year when book wholesalers were hampered by Lockdown 1 and therefore bookshops couldn’t simply order stock in usual way.
As a postscript, ordering from the existing stock of a small…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic Cover reveal for This Is Our Undoing in the forum Podium 5 years, 5 months ago
I suppose that once a book and an author become so well known that the text will survive whatever the publisher throws at it, things are different. The various covers for Mrs Dalloway were what I thought of straight away. They are almost always a portrait of a woman, often Woolf herself, but there are few that would positively prevent a purchase.…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted a new activity comment 5 years, 5 months ago
Yes, sure enough, it was back to “waiting approval”. Well, I approved it again. And I approve of it.
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Thank you. Twice (or maybe thrice) over, that is.
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Athelstone posted a new activity comment 5 years, 5 months ago
Is it still AWOL? I just managed to read it. Fabulous blog by the way.
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Yes, sure enough, it was back to “waiting approval”. Well, I approved it again. And I approve of it.
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Thank you. Twice (or maybe thrice) over, that is.
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Athelstone posted a new activity comment 5 years, 5 months ago
Sorry, Richard, definitely a glitch although I have no idea why. I have no “list” or notification of anything waiting for approval, but as approving is something I can do, I’ve done it. Maybe Jules has some idea.
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Help, @athelstone! I tried to edit it and the bloody thing’s vanished again! Argh!
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Is it still AWOL? I just managed to read it. Fabulous blog by the way.
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Yes, sure enough, it was back to “waiting approval”. Well, I approved it again. And I approve of it.
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Thank you. Twice (or maybe thrice) over, that is.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Cover reveal for This Is Our Undoing in the forum Podium 5 years, 5 months ago
It is an excellent fox. Foxes are cool.
I think I understand really well why you wouldn’t want a human face on the cover. A huge part of the pleasure of reading a novel, is the way the characters reveal themselves to us as the story progresses. A picture of somebody, fully-formed, denies the reader that pleasure. But you can understand why…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 5 months ago
Things that go Bump: with just over one week remaining, only half the votes are in.
(apologies as usual to non-members)-
I have just story-binged. It was marvellous. Now I need to recover, and think, and might just (against all my expectations) vote in time…
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly comp – February 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 5 months ago
4 fab entries.
Sandra: a mind tortured by contemplation of an almost-certain affair and a child on the way that may not be his own. But which betrayal warrants the biggest shiver? What a deliciously twisted tale.
Seagreen: what an terrible tale – but writing as sharp as February frost. It isn’t the weather that makes the reader shiver, but an…[Read more]
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Thank you, Ath, for the prompt, and for the nice comments. I’ll go and put my thinking cap on now.
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 6 months ago
Dear Denizens,
I hope you are all well and not too discommoded by the present restrictions on movement and fraternisation in your various locales.
May I draw your attention to the date. I observe that there are 6 days and some hours before the February Monthly Comp closes. So far we have two superb entries, and there is plenty of room for more.…[Read more]-
Seem to be on a roll producing shorts at the mo – I’ll see what I can do. No promises… 😉
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Phew, didn’t think I’d find the time for this one, but squeezed in (sideways) a quick effort today.
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 6 months ago
The countdown begins. Including today, just 10 days left to enter the monthly comp and win the FABULOUS PRIZE of being picked!
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 6 months ago
Still February. Still time. Not a leap year. Be quick.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Good news on the lyric writing front in the forum Podium 5 years, 6 months ago
That is amazing news. Well done, indeed!
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Thank you, Ath
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and I’ve just bumped in!! Hooray, now for the reading 😅
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Athelstone posted a new activity comment 5 years, 6 months ago
All of you! Save those precious babes and enter them in the Monthy Comp!
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Athelstone started the topic Monthly comp – February 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 6 months ago
Can’t believe it’s February already. To quote Don McLean, February made me shiver. Cold, love, anger, heat, fear, excitement, illness, happiness – 400 words maximum on absolutely anything that caused a shiver one February.
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Ooh, thank you, Ath – you’ve enabled me to tackle another tricky scene.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 6 months ago
A small field but some fab entries and I’m very happy to be picked!
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Athelstone posted a new activity comment 5 years, 6 months ago
Come on – it’s a super challenge this month! Just a few hundred words and still 2 and a teeny bit days left.
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