@raine
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Raine replied to the topic Short story in the forum Podium 5 years, 1 month ago
Oh well done @katemachon! It’s a great wee story. 🙂
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Raine replied to the topic Cloudie short story challenge publication in the forum Podium 5 years, 1 month ago
@Daedalus, it was mainly making the manifests more fleshed out (so to speak) so they felt more real and the way they worked made more sense. So small tweaks throughout rather than a big edit. And totally justified, I think. I am prone to the vagueness, as you know!!
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Raine replied to the topic Cloudie short story challenge publication in the forum Podium 5 years, 1 month ago
Thank you @Daedalus. It’s a great mag & the editorial team were fantastic throughout. The acceptance followed on from a revise & resubmit, so it took a while but I’m delighted it’s out.
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Raine replied to the topic Cloudie short story challenge publication in the forum Podium 5 years, 1 month ago
Just in case you fancied a look – this went online today both text and podcast versions! Here at http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/bathymetry
🥳🥳🥳
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Brilliant, Raine. I remember this from the last challenge. Congratulations.
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Congratulations Raine! I remember your excellent story. Well done 🙂
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Raine posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
I have just story-binged. It was marvellous. Now I need to recover, and think, and might just (against all my expectations) vote in time…
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Raine started the topic Cover reveal for This Is Our Undoing in the forum Podium 5 years, 3 months ago
Hey all,
Just wanted to show you the cover for my book – I can’t post pictures here, but this link takes you to a wee blogpost. I witter a bit about it there, but you can ignore that and just admire the foxyness of the art. Daniele has done covers for the likes of Stephen King and lots more, so to have him do my art is pretty awesome. 🙂 It’s…[Read more]
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Congratulations. Looks fab. And very exciting!
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Fabulous, Raine! I look foward to reading about it in more detail on your blog.
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So thrilled for you Raine. This is a long time coming, but wow, what a result when it did. Looking forward to reading my copy.
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It is a thing of BEAUTY and I just love it, @raine! It’s so perfect for your prose – it’s mysterious and evocative and moody with an edge of wildness, and fox. It’s perfect! SO exciting isn’t it? xxx
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Raine posted an update 5 years, 3 months ago
Well I’ve posted my Bump comp! Yay me. Was beginning to think I might not make it, but rush-jobness notwithstanding, at least it’s done now & I can read the others. 🙂
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For a rush job, it really is not too shabby.
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Finished mine too, but still reading/editing it.
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Also – yay you 🙂
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Raine posted a new activity comment 5 years, 3 months ago
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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Raine posted a new activity comment 5 years, 4 months ago
Hiya @libby Yeah, I’ve published several things from monthly comps before. Whatever we post on here, we retain all copyright, so there is no need to call a piece from here ‘previously published’ as such. As long as its been noticeably revised then I’ve never worried too much about submitting it as as an unpublished piece. Can you go back and…[Read more]
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Thanks, @raine
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Raine posted a new activity comment 5 years, 4 months ago
Oh good! I was just stream of consciousness wittering, but if there was something useful in there, then yay! 😀
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Raine replied to the topic Indie publishing deal in the forum Podium 5 years, 4 months ago
I didnt spot the Twitter post so shall go on a hunt now…
I love the name Jesmond, is that a family name? Bet it feels very real now they’ve announced it! Hope you celebrated with some sort of unhealthy substance. xxx -
Raine replied to the topic Traditional or Self-Publishing? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 5 years, 4 months ago
@janeshuff said much of what I would have done. Basically, going it alone means a biggish up front investment by you, and it also means you have to be prepared to invest the time into marketing and promo without the support of a publisher. The plus is that you have full control, and don’t have to wait/hope/get lucky enough to find a…[Read more]
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Very helpful, Raine.
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Oh good! I was just stream of consciousness wittering, but if there was something useful in there, then yay! 😀
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Raine replied to the topic How do you deal with the ever-distracting Internet??? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 5 years, 4 months ago
When I need to be productive, I set myself time slots for internetage. i.e. 15mins when I first sit at the laptop, during a lunch half hour, and then that’s it apart from evening phone-evil-blackhole-of-distraction. Tbh, I like being able to quickly check something as I’m writing – find a photo of a place, or look at a map or whatever, so I…[Read more]
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Raine replied to the topic Monthly competition November 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 5 months ago
Oh YAY – congrats @athelstone. Very well deserved. And thank-you @sandradavies for such an ace prompt. It was a valuable lesson to me that i really can strip out a lot of my speech tags, actions etc and the world may not crumble!
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Raine posted a new activity comment 5 years, 5 months ago
Ah @janette, but its the winter solstice! That’s how I see it – and all the build up excitement is just a way of making the dark bearable!! Although I do wish it meant we could celebrate on the actual solstice (early presents!) but I guess that’s a step too far!
@dougk when my mini was at primary school (4-11yrs), we mums used to just call it…[Read more]-
Ah yes, the Solstice. Of course that is celebrated, but without the commercial hoo-haa 😀
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Raine posted a new activity comment 5 years, 5 months ago
Managed to get the starter sentence wrong! Doh. I dreamt ABOUT you, goddammit.
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Raine replied to the topic Monthly competition November 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 5 months ago
Morning
‘I dreamt of you last night.’
Good morning, darling.
‘We were walking the dog down that lane, do you remember, brambleberry lane, we called it.’
Of course I remember.
‘We used to pick berries in the summer until our hands were black. Do you remember that? How you’d untangle us from the thorns and produce a handkerchief from your sleeve…[Read more]-
Managed to get the starter sentence wrong! Doh. I dreamt ABOUT you, goddammit.
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Raine replied to the topic Monthy Comp – September 2020 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 7 months ago
Just remembered to check in… Well done @seagreen!! It’s a fab story! And thank you @janette for the kind feedback and giving me a lunchtime prompt! 😊
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Yay! I’m looking forward to reading them over.
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Thanks, Raine. Pleased you enjoyed.