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Elle replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 3 months ago
Congratulations Stevie! If the system hasn’t changed with TMP all highly commended stories are published in the anthology.
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Kate replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 3 months ago
Brilliant Stevie. Have to say I loved that story, so I’m not surprised.
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Daedalus replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 3 months ago
That’s great news Stevie. Wonderful to hear of a RWAV story hitting success so early, it bodes well for the field in general
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Raine replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 3 months ago
COngrats @stevie – that’s great news, and how multitalented you are! You were super-quick off the mark to get your story in already – I’m impressed!!
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Jules replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 3 months ago
Congratulations, Stevie. Great news and very well deserved 😊
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Sandra replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 3 months ago
Oh, well done, Stevie, and deservedly so!
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 3 months ago
Congratulations Stevie!!
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No. I’ve been waiting for it in paperback, not sure it’s out yet, but certainly intend to.
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I’d be very inetrested to know what you think of it when you do. I was really, really looking forward to reading it but I’m a bit disappointed and wondering if I’ve missed something.
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*interested
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I was toying with splashing out on the Kindle edition but Andrew Motion’s review made me think about it. I probably will, though.
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I have now read Andrew Motion’s review and he sums up my frustration with the book perfectly.
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Thanks Ath.
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I think I agreed with Andrew Motion’s review too. Read Warlight when it came out and memory of details is beginning to fade. But, yes, a little disappointing. Sort of changed its nature part way through?
PS Motion’s review of Tessa Hadley’s latest, Late in the Day, pretty spot on too though I enjoyed it a little more than he seems to have done.…[Read more]-
PPS Actually I liked it, but I’m a big Hadley fan. However I didn’t put it down thinking I’d like to read it again.
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Ooh I’ve never read anything of hers. Could you recommend one, @libby?
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Of her novels, I’d go for The Past. Though I also like The London Train for the way it includes contemporary issues and anxieties.
The short stories are even better. I’d start with the last volume, Bad Dreams.
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Libby posted an update 7 years, 3 months ago
Hello @Daedalus, you probably know about this website https://solentaviatrix.wordpress.com/
but thought I’d post the link just in case. And for anyone else who’s interested.
There’s a new item on it about Beatrice Shilling who cured the Merlin engine flooding problem. And someone has written a play about her.-
I wasn’t aware of that site, thanks Libby. I did hear of the Beatrice Shilling play recently, good to see her getting the recognition she deserves
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Bella posted an update 7 years, 3 months ago
Dan Brown is a bit of a guilty pleasure. But if he tells me ONE MORE TIME that Prof Langdon has an eidetic memory I shall fling “Origin” out of the window. I don’t need a **@&£** eidetic memory to remember that Langdon has one. End of rant.
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I read ‘The Little Stranger’ and thought if Sarah Waters tells me one more time that Dr Faraday does things gently, I’d rip the book up. I couldn’t though, because it was a library book.
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Philippa East posted an update in the group
December SloMo 7 years, 3 months agoI am planning to start working in earnest on Book 2 from March onwards, after giving myself a break from writing / editing for all of February.
I hope you will help me my cheerleading / offering tea / kicking my butt, hard.
Hope you are all getting on well with your own writing tasks. xx-
Fine with the cheerleading and tea. Not a great one for kicking people I fear.
My own writing is slow, with moments of excitement, thank you for asking 🙂
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Go for it, @philippaeast.
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I have pom poms, kettle, and boots at the ready…
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Thanks guys! I like the sound of Pom poms….
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I also today have banana, pecan and white chocolate muffins if you want one. There were overripe bananas lurking in my fruit bowl that needed a home.
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Bella replied to the topic My Writing Journey to… Well, Nowhere Very Much in the forum Blogs 7 years, 3 months ago
I enjoyed reading A Record of Sin on the Cloud and I think it deserves to see the light of day. So good luck with the submissions when you get to that stage.
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Raine posted an update 7 years, 3 months ago
A note to those on submission or thinking of submitting – Agents etc are starting to gear up to the London Book Fair now, so March is a bad time to send stuff/expect responses. They’ll be totally preoccupied with prep, and then the week or so afterwards with finalising deals made there.
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RichardB replied to the topic Hull Paragon: The Million-to-One Chance in the forum Blogs 7 years, 3 months ago
They’re favourites of mine. And they were exceedingly good engines too. A design that stays in front-line express service for forty years is not to be sneezed at.
I own the current iteration of the Hornby Castle. A lovely model to look at, but my example is an erratic runner, so it sits on my desk as an ornament.
I told you I was a nerd…
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Daedalus replied to the topic Hull Paragon: The Million-to-One Chance in the forum Blogs 7 years, 3 months ago
Castle class are lovely. My first Hornby train was a Castle class. Wish I could remember which one.
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RichardB replied to the topic Hull Paragon: The Million-to-One Chance in the forum Blogs 7 years, 3 months ago
When they put the Great Western locomotive Caerphilly Castle in the Science Museum my father said, ‘The father of one of classmates at school used to drive that engine.’
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RichardB started the topic My Writing Journey to… Well, Nowhere Very Much in the forum Blogs 7 years, 3 months ago
It has become a tradition, continued here from the Word Cloud, for those who have succeeded in getting an agent or a publishing deal to blog about their journeys to that success. Well, some of us who haven’t managed to get that far have our stories too…
In 2012 I started my first novel. My first proper novel, that is: the first one to be…[Read more]
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Daedalus replied to the topic Hull Paragon: The Million-to-One Chance in the forum Blogs 7 years, 3 months ago
…In fact one of my few relatively clear memories of my grandfather are holding his hand while we stood on the (very crowded) footplate of the Oliver Cromwell, a BR Standard 7 Class locomotive, for a short run up and down the rails at Bressingham in the early 1980s. All I remember is a glimpse of the fire in the furnace, being closed in on all…[Read more]
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Daedalus replied to the topic Hull Paragon: The Million-to-One Chance in the forum Blogs 7 years, 3 months ago
This is fascinating.
My grandfather, on my mother’s side, worked on the railways but I know virtually nothing of what he did, to my embarrassment. I gather he was responsible for maintenance of a section of track, and when he started, had something to do with using horses to shunt rolling stock into and out of sidings, this being before that…[Read more]
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Libby replied to the topic Hull Paragon: The Million-to-One Chance in the forum Blogs 7 years, 3 months ago
Newbury is my adopted home town, Ath. Needless to say it’s less romantic now though steam trains do pass through as I’m sure you know.
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