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John T posted a new activity comment 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Mandy’s son Sam has done backstage work, but I think that was more technical – lighting etc.
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John T posted a new activity comment 1 month, 3 weeks ago
I was born in Manchester, but no help, as I left in 1965, aged 10! The Mechanics Institute Library sounds amazing. Dad was a member of one in Hull when he was teenager before the war, and made a point of joining one in Cardiff when we moved there in 1965. All part of the workers’ education movement – he was a big supporter.
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John T posted a new activity comment 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Thank you so much, Kate. I still hardly believe that anyone might want to buy my book!
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John T posted an update 3 months ago
For those of you who are interested, Apples in the Dark is now available as an Ebook (paperback coming at the end of June). Almost ten years in the writing, tearing up, rewriting, rewriting again, etc – but it has finally got there. Links to books and to website in my Linktree. https://linktr.ee/wordswithjohn
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John T posted an update 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Thanks to advice from Daedalus, Richard and Athelstone, my entry to Whodunnit with all the weird code is now fixed!
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John T posted an update 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Anyone on here. Help. Something went wrong in the copying of my story to Whodunnit. It’s full of visible computer code. Anyone know how to cure that?
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Try toggling between ‘Visual’ and ‘Text’ and pasting into it set to one then the other to see if it works better. The only other alternative is to paste it into a notepad-type app where it will clear all the formatting, and you won’t get the code, but you probably will need to go through it in the editor and manually add things like italics (and…[Read more]
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Thank you – I’ll try.
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John T replied to the topic Influences in the forum Blogs 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Salter is an author I’ve never read. 90% of my favourite contemporary authors are women, but that may be as much about genre as gender. I read very few thrillers or crime novels, and only occasional l…[Read more]
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John T posted a new activity comment 7 months, 2 weeks ago
My usual remedy for reading problems is to read children’s books. I read a lot – they’re my therapy.
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John T posted a new activity comment 7 months, 3 weeks ago
I know that black dog. It’s hard to shove it out of the way, sometimes. Big cwtches from Wales x
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John T posted a new activity comment 7 months, 3 weeks ago
There are an increasing number of us there, including a fair few from the Den.
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John T posted a new activity comment 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Being the the most amazing beta-reader, your copy will appear before I publish it. Pre-publication copies are currently at the printers.
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John T posted a new activity comment 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Not exactly surprising, given the similarities between our writing, but interesting.
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John T posted a new activity comment 7 months, 3 weeks ago
It certainly has. I began writing seriously in 2004, at the age of 50.
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I can see some similarities there. I started around then as well. You were a couple of years ahead of me on the age front, but it seems we picked up our pen and paper about the same time.
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Not exactly surprising, given the similarities between our writing, but interesting.
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Mind you, I’m still puffing away a good stretch back from the finish line 🙂
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I’ll be cheering you on!
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John T posted an update 7 months, 3 weeks ago
The proof copy of my novel has arrived. This is getting scarily real!
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Woohoo! Exciting as well as scary, I hope.
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Yep.
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Must feel wonderful, John. It’s been a long trip!
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It certainly has. I began writing seriously in 2004, at the age of 50.
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I can see some similarities there. I started around then as well. You were a couple of years ahead of me on the age front, but it seems we picked up our pen and paper about the same time.
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Not exactly surprising, given the similarities between our writing, but interesting.
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Mind you, I’m still puffing away a good stretch back from the finish line 🙂
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I’ll be cheering you on!
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Woohoo! Can’t wait for my copy.
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Being the the most amazing beta-reader, your copy will appear before I publish it. Pre-publication copies are currently at the printers.
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John T posted a new activity comment 8 months ago
I have no invites to pass on yet, but I gather you get them after a while. It’s a fairly empty space at the moment, but I think it will fill up. People like Joanne Harris, Neil Gaiman and Chuck Wendig are on board.
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I’m also looking at how backstage works in theatres, particularly the wardrobe part, meanwhile I aim to generalise and hope it suffices.
Yes, the Mechanics Institute Library is amazing. I only wish I’d more time to explore it. Ours at least, had the education part of it taken over by the council, but it is interesting to see how many groups…[Read more]
Mandy’s son Sam has done backstage work, but I think that was more technical – lighting etc.