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Kate replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 5 months ago
Congratulations, Ath, and thanks for running the comp, Libby.
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Athelstone started the topic Monthly comp – February 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 5 months ago
Can’t believe it’s February already. To quote Don McLean, February made me shiver. Cold, love, anger, heat, fear, excitement, illness, happiness – 400 words maximum on absolutely anything that caused a shiver one February.
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Ooh, thank you, Ath – you’ve enabled me to tackle another tricky scene.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 5 months ago
A small field but some fab entries and I’m very happy to be picked!
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Kate replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 5 months ago
DIRECTIONS
‘What do I need this for?’
‘It’s a new cinema, I don’t know the way.’
‘Well, get out your phone and ask it to direct you, like any normal person.’
‘You know what happened last time I tried that. I ended up driving in circles for half an hour until my phone found a connection. A map on the other hand, can’t go wrong.’
‘Fine. Let…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 5 months ago
A MESSAGE FOR ALL “THINGS THAT GO BUMP” ESSAYERS. There is an update in the group’s activity stream.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly competition – January 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 5 months ago
Occasional rough language
Prat’s Key Wood
Prat’s Key Wood was as old as the hills. No, really.
Well, seeing as the hills are billions of years old and forged in the countless aeons before organic life, that’s a stretch. But, I mean 1) it was ancient to the max and 2) it took Jacko and a team of ten, and a bulldozer, and chainsaws, just one…[Read more]
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 5 months ago
Is it just me, or is the commercially produced garlic from supermarkets and greengrocers feeble old shite compared to the stuff I cooked with a few years back? I’ll swear it used to have some bite and tang to it, but these days I could stick whole bulbs in and hardly taste it. Going to try growing a few different types.
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No it’s not just you! Supermarket garlic tastes quite bland compared to the stuff I’ve cooked with while self-catering in France – though our local farm shop sometimes has decent bulbs.
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Definitely true. The garlic in the box I get from the organic farmer in the next village is ten times tastier than supermarket stuff.
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I agree. It has gone the way of so many other foods, so bland when mass produced. My France holiday (a distant memory) showed just how much.
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One of the first and most obvious changes is that after preparing a meal with garlic I’d have to scrub away at my hands for a good ten minutes and they’d still be poor company next day. These days a quick rinse is all that’s needed.
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JaneShuff posted an update 5 years, 6 months ago
Posting this on the off chance someone can help. I’m planning my next book, part of which will be set in a camp for refugees and immigrants – very similar to the camp on Lesbos in Greece. I need to do some research into the conditions in the Greek camps and how they operates and also get some sense of the refugees’ different stories. I’ve found an…[Read more]
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Might be worth looking at Medecine Sans Frontier websites etc. They do a lot of work in the Med with the migrants, so there might be things via them?
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthly comp: December 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 6 months ago
Well done Libby. Excellent entries from all.
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JaneShuff posted an update 5 years, 6 months ago
Congratulations to all for the great bunch of entries! And A Happy New Year!!
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly comp: December 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 6 months ago
A very happy new year to all Denizens! The advent competition didn’t have 25 entries as I hoped, but by way of compensation, those that were submitted are all gems that I would be happy to find behind a calendar window.
Janette: A New Opening
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 6 months ago
Are there any more takers for the last monthly competition, in the final hours of the year? We have three super entries so far, but room for more.
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Daedalus replied to the topic Traditional or Self-Publishing? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 5 years, 6 months ago
@dougk if you’d like an alternative to a sedative, you can read the exhaustive cautionary tale of my small press experience here https://airandseastories.com/2019/01/30/my-publishing-nightmare-the-story-of-a-book-deal-gone-bad-part-1/
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Traditional or Self-Publishing? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 5 years, 6 months ago
Good article @dougk.
For anyone looking to submit to Indie Presses in the UK and Ireland, the Indie Press Guide produced by Mslexia is a good place to start. Also, if you don’t have an agent to check a contract for you, the Society of Authors in the UK will check it at no charge. I’ve found them VERY thorough!
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Indie publishing deal in the forum Podium 5 years, 6 months ago
Thank you @athelstone @janette @raine @thea @libby @sandradavies.
Verve are a small imprint of an indie press so there’ll be no books on shelves in Waterstones but they’re lovely people and the fit feels so right. The indie press route has worked very well for me and is well worth a try. They’re often more open to books that don’t quite fit into…[Read more]
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Aha, Jesmond. My brother lived there in the early/mid 70s. Lily Avenue. I visited a couple of times. Don’t remember much about it – but we were young.
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We moved away when I was three so I remember nothing!
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Athelstone replied to the topic Indie publishing deal in the forum Podium 5 years, 7 months ago
So pleased with the news! Simply brilliant.
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JaneShuff started the topic Indie publishing deal in the forum Podium 5 years, 7 months ago
Exciting news from me. On The Edge my ‘girl on a lighthouse’ thriller has found a home with Verve Books. It’s been a long journey with a lot of setbacks on the way and I am thrilled.There’s nothing like the moment when the e mail saying how much someone loved your book (with no caveats, no buts,) arrives in your inbox. It will be published in…[Read more]
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Yay, congratulations, Jane! That’s brilliant news, and so deserved! Really looking forward to reading it. xx
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Brilliant, Jane! Keep us posted and let us know when we can buy a copy.
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I’m assuming this is the one I read some years ago, which at the time I thought very impressive. Good to hear talent will eventually earn its reward.
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Well done, Jane, I hope it does stupendously well!
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Thank you @johnalty. I’ll be happy if it does what the publishers hope it will do! I might need your help as I’m contracted to write a second in the series and it is looking as though there’ll be a bit of sailing in it.
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Happy to help
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Richard's Literary Byways: Pete Who? in the forum Blogs 5 years, 7 months ago
You’re quite right Richard. Although the lack of hoovering and the pile of christmas cards still waiting to be written might point to a different conclusion!
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Daedalus replied to the topic Richard's Literary Byways: Pete Who? in the forum Blogs 5 years, 7 months ago
They do have that sort of instant hit of relateable truth don’t they? Ironic, or perhaps not, that Roche’s career might apply to the principle of ‘Connections’, even though it’s clearly about something much more personal. A missed connection here or there is the difference between national treasure status and obscurity.
Also interesting for me to…[Read more]
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Richard's Literary Byways: Pete Who? in the forum Blogs 5 years, 7 months ago
I’ve just wasted an hour, thanks to you Richard, trawling through the internet searching for Brian Patten who was my particular favourite and ordered a copy of Little Johnny’s Confession which I am sure is the book of his I used to have. Fingers crossed.
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