Barny

That is brilliant, Philippa! Good luck, and have a great Festival!

Fab news, Philippa – will have everything crossed for you!

I found @denofwriters on twitter, followed, but now can’t find it any more. Umm?

Congrats! Talent will out, it seems. Sorry I won’t be there to cheer you on.

Fantastic news, Philippa. Go, you!

Spooky? Yes, on my occasional visits I used to feel like Miss Havisham in Great Expectations.

Ah no, he was the very last to join!

Hi Richard

I did go back and look a while ago and realised there was no longer anyone there (that sounds spooky!).

I wrote a very dark thriller after the one I featured on the SE course but have gone the other way with my current MS. Good luck with returning to your rather lovely first love.

Aaah! Hi Jackie, nice to (virtually) see you again. The group died some while back, after carrying on for a year or two with just the three of us: me, Peter and Lins. I haven’t heard from either in yonks.

I’ve written another novel since, a rather dark crime thriller, but maybe it’s time to return to my first love (as it were).

Welcome Graeme and Louise!

Good luck with the submissions. This is a great thread.

RichardB – you were in my self-edit group and I remember your fab story. Good luck with dusting it down, giving it a polish and, hopefully, getting it back out there again. I do hope you do well. Certainly, you write well.

I took two years off writing after more than a few setbacks. It was…[Read more]

Hi Graeme. Hi Louise. Glad you could join us 🙂

Hello All! Jules sent me an invite via Twitter, and I rushed over to join! I actually hadn’t been on the Cloud much in recent times, and now I think it’s gone forever? Anyway, nice to see some familiar names on here. I’m busy prepping for York this weekend, so hope to see some of you there. Lou xx

The competition group was open, so I don’t think there’s a problem posting the names of those who had already signed up here. Several are already here, but it would be great to see whether we could get the rest. I worry about one or two who may not be quite so internet-savvy and I tend to take Barny’s point – it would be a great shame not to…[Read more]

Hi Graeme. And hi everyone else I’ve not said hi to yet. There’s a lot of you, and I’ve only just figured out how to get into the forums while I’m in work.