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RichardB replied to the topic Secure posting area? in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 8 months ago
Closed groups is what we used to do on the Word Cloud, and it seemed to work okay. With a communal password-protected area, how would you keep the password secure and at the same time make it accessible to those who want it? With a closed group per WIP, the owner has complete power over who can see it. and it’s easy enough to find if you click on ‘Groups.’
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RichardB posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
Forgot to say: though I say it as shouldn’t, I find the book less convincing as a ghost story than my own, and the climax is a bit OTT. Well, I’d better carry on with trying to lick my MS into better shape.
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Not actually a Haunted House, but still ghostly, and very creepy, Susan Hill’s Dolly is the most enjoyable book I’ve read this year.
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Yes, don’t give up @richardb! I’m not sure the talk of fashions is much help being as agents are always guessing on what will be next, and the things in the shops were signed two years before. We were told about 4 years ago that post-apocalytpic was done. But there are still agents asking for it, and still new books appearing in the shops. And I’m…[Read more]
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I’m going through agents at the moment listing those with that particular request.
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RichardB posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago
Three years ago I was told by a WW editor that my first novel hadn’t a hope of being published because there is no market for ghost stories, and particularly not those about haunted houses because they have been done to death. I was in the library last Saturday, and what did I find? ‘This House is Haunted’ by John Boyne (2013). And is the title…[Read more]
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I have received six arcs this year so far about exactly that, Richard. And I note many othets coming into the library where I work. They are all some permutation on the haunted house. There is definitely a market for it.
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And there’s The Silent Companions out recently and doing really well as a reading group type thing…
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Forgot to say: though I say it as shouldn’t, I find the book less convincing as a ghost story than my own, and the climax is a bit OTT. Well, I’d better carry on with trying to lick my MS into better shape.
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Not actually a Haunted House, but still ghostly, and very creepy, Susan Hill’s Dolly is the most enjoyable book I’ve read this year.
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Yes, don’t give up @richardb! I’m not sure the talk of fashions is much help being as agents are always guessing on what will be next, and the things in the shops were signed two years before. We were told about 4 years ago that post-apocalytpic was done. But there are still agents asking for it, and still new books appearing in the shops. And I’m…[Read more]
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I’m going through agents at the moment listing those with that particular request.
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2013, you say. Maybe he was the one who did it to death…
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I believe you when you say the book was less convincing than your own, Richard, I remember reading yours and really enjoying. It was spooky enough for me. Good luck with your MS and fingers crossed it will be available to buy soon.
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Umm, I hadn’t noticed. YOu can see recent topic activity by selecting topics or replies in the drop down menu at the top of this activity wall? Or did you mean in the right hand column? I know @Admin were thinking of tweaking that column to include a list of blogs, so it might be in the middle of a reshuffle?
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Hello! Couldn’t lose touch with all the lovely Cloudy friends.
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And it wouldn’t be the same without our second lovely editrix 😉
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Emma! Hi!
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@woolleybeans Hi. So good to be here.
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@squidge – Awww! Though I’m not the one who carries a WIP …
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Cooee. Hi Emma. Good here innit. The spirit of the Cloud lives on.
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RichardB started the topic Richard's Literary Byways: The Dispossessed, by Ursula K Le Guin in the forum Blogs 7 years, 8 months ago
Our moon is so much larger in relation to its planet than any other moon in the solar system that some astronomers believe that our Earth-Moon pairing should instead be considered a double planet. Imagine, if you will, a true double planet, with one planet only slightly smaller than the other.
This small difference has had a profound effect on…[Read more]
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RichardB replied to the topic Book 2 of Oath and Crown out soon in the forum Podium 7 years, 8 months ago
Yes, when I first started on An Argument, I kept thinking ‘Who’s that?’ and ‘What’s going on here?’ I soon got into it, but a straight-through read would avoid those little glitches.
So what’s your last NF book? I’ve lost track. Flying to the Edge?
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RichardB replied to the topic Book 2 of Oath and Crown out soon in the forum Podium 7 years, 8 months ago
As the frog said, ‘Read it.’ I’m not that big on historical fiction and it took me a while to get into An Argument of Blood (though it turned out to be worth it), but A Black Matter for the King is a corker and had me gripped from first to last.
Aelfgifa (can’t do the dipthong) is a really compelling character, which is all the more impressive…[Read more]
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RichardB replied to the topic Writing Advice in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 8 months ago
So would I.
‘We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers… Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls.’
Er, no…
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RichardB replied to the topic Writing Advice in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 8 months ago
He left out ‘Take the dope, take the dope, take the dope.’ Though i’m not sure what the equivalent would be for writers.
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RichardB replied to the topic Contract finally sorted! in the forum Podium 7 years, 8 months ago
So glad to hear this, Claire. I don’t recall hearing anything from you since you blogged on the Cloud about your first meeting with your agent, and that seems ages ago (though yes, glacial pace is about it). I’ve been wondering what happened, so this is all the more welcome. Congratulations.
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RichardB replied to the topic Writing Advice in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 7 years, 8 months ago
I believe Hemingway also gave that tip about stopping in the middle of a scene, Raine, so you’re in good company there.
Though as it happens I am at this moment taking a break (all right, procrastinating) from struggling to get back into the middle of a scene…
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RichardB replied to the topic Short Story Publication/Competition in the forum Podium 7 years, 8 months ago
I don’t have a story in Hell’s Empire…
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