@gippsgirl
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GippsGirl replied to the topic 12 UK Literary Agents Seeking New Clients NOW in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 4 years, 7 months ago
Thanks @Raine, but I am YEARS away from submitting anything!
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GippsGirl started the topic 12 UK Literary Agents Seeking New Clients NOW in the forum Competitions, Open calls and Writing Opportunities 4 years, 7 months ago
This was received from Words Away whose courses I’ve done (with Andrew Wille) and attended some of their salons. Hoping there might be an opportunity here for someone.
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GippsGirl joined the group Songs of Innocence and Experience 4 years, 8 months ago
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GippsGirl replied to the topic Monthly comp – July 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 9 months ago
Gosh, Sandra, you posted your verdict at 4 am! I hope you’re catching up on sleep today. Thanks for an excellent comp theme, which elicited a host of cracking entries.
Congrats to Kate on a worthy win, and to John and Seagreen for their honourable mentions.
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GippsGirl posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago
That is frustrating, Athers, especially as your other options are now limited and less appealing. I did a sentence structure workshop with Hal Duncan at York years ago. I’m afraid to say I got bored because he was being too methodical (my flaw probably, not his), but that’s not to say he wouldn’t be a good fit as a Book Doctor. Looking at his w…[Read more]
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GippsGirl posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago
That’s very reassuring, and I like your strategic thinking. Cheers. 🙂
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GippsGirl posted an update 4 years, 9 months ago
@admin
As others have highlighted, the Den could do with a little housekeeping, and sweeping away the unwanted debris. Curious to know what WordPress offers in the way of security from such intrusions?-
Security is as good as we can currently make it. And house is definitely being kept! 🙂 Occasionally – as recently – we have an odd spate of slightly cleverer bots joining the site because they manage to foil part of the software. While it is annoying to see them on the wall, they have no ability to interact or affect the Den at all. (Each user…[Read more]
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That’s very reassuring, and I like your strategic thinking. Cheers. 🙂
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Many thanks for all your efforts @admin.
I was hoping the Thomas S Cook bot might give some travel tips …
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GippsGirl posted an update 4 years, 9 months ago
@katemachon
Adored your competition entry, Kate! Second person worked so well, and in such few words you’ve conveyed perfectly that false sense of security. The last line was a stunner. -
GippsGirl replied to the topic DIY soapbox in the forum Podium 4 years, 9 months ago
Fine with me, Sandra. Do you want to provide bank details for a transfer (by way of PM) or would you prefer a cheque?
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GippsGirl posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago
I’ve been somewhat strategic in helping my daughter to develop her independence. It was I who left home for trips away, leaving her to fend for herself (once she was working, I should add!). Good practice, I thought, for when she gets a place of her own – and she agreed. She has not long returned from her big first trip, spending three months in…[Read more]
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GippsGirl replied to the topic Monthly comp – July 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 4 years, 9 months ago
Bringing a gun into a house changes it.
Atoms shift and reconfigure to make space
for this alien instrument
and what it might wreak.It’s not the way, she pleads.
Violence begets violence
and can’t be undone.Pushed back by forceful hands,
she quakes in the corner,
bible clutched to heart.He sits rigid, jaw clenched, hairs on end,
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GippsGirl posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago
An excellent point about the source, Squidge … but a beard? Ugh!!!
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GippsGirl replied to the topic DIY soapbox in the forum Podium 4 years, 9 months ago
Congrats, Sandra! A great accomplishment to get it in print after eight long years. Friends who know I write can’t understand why I’m still at it after five. I, too, would love a signed copy, and assume you reap more of the profit (!) if purchased direct rather than via Blurb? Could do a bank transfer.
And a catch-up is definitely due! x
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GippsGirl posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago
You’re welcome! Hope you manage to get it resolved.
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GippsGirl posted a new activity comment 4 years, 9 months ago
My daughter is a hairdresser and has recommended going to a chemist for products that give best results and to diligently follow the instructions on the back of the bottle. We used a tea tree shampoo when she was a child, which was effective with one of the fine nit combs when the hair is wet (after shampoo).
All bedding and clothing that has…[Read more]
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Thanks both. They are tenacious b******s. This is the second time they have come back so your daughters recommendations are not falling on deaf ears, GippsGirl. I am on the ferry at the moment and will be first in the queue at the chemists tomorrow morning. Luckily my OH is fairly bald but I will be making him have a precautionary treatment as well.
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You’re welcome! Hope you manage to get it resolved.
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GippsGirl replied to the topic Making sense? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 4 years, 9 months ago
I interpret this directly as: don’t ever put yourself in the position where you might regret the things you didn’t do,
which leads me indirectly to: don’t hold back from doing the things you could have done because you’re likely to regret it later.The word adventure didn’t spring to mind when I read your post (though I get what you mean).…[Read more]
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GippsGirl replied to the topic Publishing deal!! in the forum Podium 4 years, 9 months ago
What fantastic news! Congratulations, Kaz, and I read that you met your agent at a successful speed-dating pitch-event. That’s a great reminder to make sure we writers are best prepared for such meetings.
I didn’t know of the Wheeler Centre. It looks like an amazing resource, and next time I’m home in Melbourne I’ll try to get along to an event there.
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GippsGirl replied to the topic Help with a Title, please. in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 4 years, 10 months ago
“A Lyttle Goes a Long Way”
The Improbable Life of an Ulster Storyteller
gets my vote.Improbable tale feeds into the stereotype of Irish blarney. That title tells the reader before they’ve turned the cover that what follows is not to be believed, so why bother buying the book?
Improbable life suggests a life fully lived, a life of intrigue and…[Read more]
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GippsGirl replied to the topic Help with a Title, please. in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 4 years, 10 months ago
I, too, think a subtitle (strapline?) works, though I’m rather partial to Kaz’s suggestion of ‘improbable’ which suggests an especially rollicking good story from an Ulster Storyteller.
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