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Sandra posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago
Browsing on iplayer, I came across this short and sweet account of writers who count their book sales in millions: h t t p s://w w w.b b c. co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000rs9l/mills-and-boon-writing-for-love-in-northern-ireland
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Sandra posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago
I’m hoping participants in ‘Songs of innocence and experience’ will be as interested in sharing as some are of reading origins of the stories begun back in October 2019
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago
Participants in Things that go Bump, my be interested in a new topic there 🙂
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Athelstone replied to the topic Formatting for self-publishers in the forum Coffee Shop 5 years, 2 months ago
I saw that Debi had praised it on Facebook.
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Sandra replied to the topic Formatting for self-publishers in the forum Coffee Shop 5 years, 2 months ago
🙂 Confess I haven’t checked it out
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Athelstone replied to the topic Formatting for self-publishers in the forum Coffee Shop 5 years, 2 months ago
Looks useful. Hope it’s well set out.
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Sandra started the topic Formatting for self-publishers in the forum Coffee Shop 5 years, 2 months ago
Debi Alper posted this on FB: available from Blot Publishing:
“The Indie Author’s Guide to Formatting Your Paperback” by Leigh Forbes – a guide for independent authors who want their self-published typography to look like professional typography. 🙂
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Comp – March 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 2 months ago
Thank you @Athelstone and @seagreen. Also thanks @Janette for a prompt which enabled me to try out a reason for a murder.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly Comp – March 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 2 months ago
Smashing story, Sandra. Very well deserved win!
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Sandra started the topic Monthly competition April 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 2 months ago
Using a tried and trusted formula, I’d like you to start with the opening line of track 11 from Arab Strap’s ‘As days get dark’ and take it wherever you will. Maximum word count 350 please, deadline Friday 30th April.
“And it’s just enough to hurt, it’s just enough to make its mark”.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Comp – March 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 2 months ago
Wow. Thank you Janette, I’d relaxed, confident of having been entertainingly pipped at the post. Will drag myself from editing and see what I can come up with.
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Janette replied to the topic Monthly Comp – March 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 2 months ago
Wow, who would have guessed that no take-up would transform into four superb entries that I can’t fit a gnat’s wing between. I’ve read and re-read, and gone out for a walk – and here are my conclusions, before I change my mind:
Sandra – Catalyst
A gritty, rich voice taking us through a concise, gripping read and an unexpected but brilliantly…[Read more]
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Comp – March 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 2 months ago
I’m thinking Janette should be careful what she wished for – I guess her task has just quadrupled!
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly Comp – March 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 2 months ago
Rose the Cat
One day when I was seven, my sister Rose turned into a cat. I expected it because Rose had said ‘You won’t catch me here much longer. Not like this.’ Mr Cobden, the old man at the end of the road next to where the people had little walls all over their garden that my mum said were ‘common’, said to us that we would both live long…[Read more]
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Daedalus replied to the topic Monthly Comp – March 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 2 months ago
Transformation
It’s easy to transform. You just change, from one state to
Another. Nothing much to worry
About. Examples are (quite literally) everywhere you
Look. Consider the universe. Just
Took the universe a picosecond to drag itself
Out of an incomprehensible
Mess, shrugging on the laws of physics, sorting
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Janette replied to the topic Monthly Comp – March 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 2 months ago
last (24hr-ish) shout for the monthly comp (do we still want to keep this going in its current form?). Already we have two excellent entries, but one or two more would be lovely.
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Sandra replied to the topic Drink with a dead man in the forum Podium 5 years, 2 months ago
Thank you Jane – and Kate and Raine – it’s always good to get positive feedback, and Carol’s was more incisive that I could have managed. (I’m still grinning)
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Sandra replied to the topic Drink with a dead man in the forum Podium 5 years, 2 months ago
If anyone is wondering about splashing out on a print version of any of the ‘Love triangles with murder’ series, Blurb has a SHIP4FREE offer – at their usual rate of £6.99 for one book this is of considerable value, but offer ends 30th March
h t t p s://w w w.blurb.co.uk/user/SandraDavies…
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Raine replied to the topic Drink with a dead man in the forum Podium 5 years, 2 months ago
Fab review! Well done – she clearly really enjoyed it & picked up on all the things that I love about your writing! 🙂
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Sandra replied to the topic Drink with a dead man in the forum Podium 5 years, 2 months ago
Thanks, Ath. I bought a copy of Carol’s novel, but as it only arrived yesterday I haven’t begun it yet.
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Really interesting. The sales figures are astonishing; a group of authors up there with Stephen King, Stephenie Meyer etc. but a million miles from household names.