@libby
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Libby replied to the topic Warnings in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 6 months ago
The Womagwriter blog has info on this too https://womagwriter.blogspot.com/
(a useful site if you’re thinking of submitting to women’s mags)And Della Galton blogged about it a couple of months ago on her site.
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Libby posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
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. -
Libby posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
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 a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
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, 6 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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Libby replied to the topic Hull Paragon: The Million-to-One Chance in the forum Blogs 7 years, 6 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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Libby replied to the topic January 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 7 months ago
Thank you @johnalty and well deserved Jonathan @jd73. As Daeds said, a tour de force. I really enjoyed both your piece and his.
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Libby replied to the topic January 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 7 months ago
Future Sound
On the doorstep in the dark, with a glass of wine. At other times when doing this duty she’d drunk coffee. It didn’t matter, just something to nudge along the twenty minutes which might be slow if there was nothing to report.
She looked out to the lane where bare, rounded oaks stood under a sky that was clear to the stars, and no…[Read more]
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Libby posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
Have started a submission. Now I’ve admitted it I’d better get on with it 🙂
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly comp – December 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 7 months ago
Congratulations @johnalty – well deserved. It was a gripping story.
Thank you @Raine for your kind comments on my entry. I’m sorry you’ve had a difficult Christmas. Hope things will get back on track for you soon.
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Libby posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
Happy new year, @johnalty and all Denizens.
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Libby replied to the topic Monthly comp – December 2018 in the forum Monthly Competition 7 years, 8 months ago
Untitled (398 words)
In the dark before dawn the phone woke me. Its light made me squint. A window was broken at the shop, said a female police officer.
I pulled on a thick jumper and skirt and, with a thumping heart, drove into the centre of town. My shop – high-quality second-hand women’s clothes – was in a small road off the high stree…[Read more]
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Libby replied to the topic Getting An Agent Blog in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 8 months ago
I look forward to it!
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Libby replied to the topic For Those in Peril… in the forum Blogs 7 years, 8 months ago
Thank you for this blog Richard – and Daeds. I hadn’t read it before. I remember the Penlee disaster but had forgotten the terrible details.
I have my RNLI Christmas card from a friend who always sends one. It’s very amusing. Santa’s reindeer in crew safety helmets.
I bought my cards this year from the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society, another…[Read more]
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Libby replied to the topic Getting An Agent Blog in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 8 months ago
Thank you for posting this, Philippa; it’s a great insight into your novel’s development and your own progress as a writer. What you say is both heartening and daunting. So much work! I’m really pleased you have an agent you like, one who is helping you develop the MS to an even higher level and who – by the sounds of things – shares your own…[Read more]
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Libby posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
I know what you mean about momentum @kazg. Once lost it can take a while to get back on track.
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Libby posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
Sounds really good progress @raine despite all the frustrations. And every cloud has a silver lining 🙂
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Well done, Raine. So pleased you have managed to steal back a little space and time for yourself. And thrilled that you’ve untangled that problem of the stakes. That must feel great! I am so sorry about the migraines. I am in awe of how you work despite them. x
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Libby posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
Maybe put in the subplot(s), assuming you haven’t done this with a shorter synopsis? And anything else which is important to you such as themes, settings, similarities/differences between main characters. Ten pages is a lot so I’m wondering what they want which wouldn’t be in a standard synopsis.
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I was asked for a chapter by chapter breakdown once. With secondary characters plotted too…
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I can’t help feeling it’s so they can unerstand the book without the bother of actually reading any of it.
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“I can’t help feeling it’s so they can unerstand the book without the bother of actually reading any of it” – I’m sure you’re right. But perhaps also to get a feel for how much you understand your own book, in terms of thinking about it structurally and thematically
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