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KazG replied to the topic Publishing deal!! in the forum Podium 6 years, 10 months ago
THANK YOU all! I’ve been so moved by all the generous responses all round. The writing community is really the best.
Spent most of yesterday in a champagne-induced haze but now back to work 🙂 🙂
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Philippa East replied to the topic Publishing deal!! in the forum Podium 6 years, 10 months ago
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes YES YES YES!!!!!
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly comp – July 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 10 months ago
I asked my daughter if I should post this or was it nonsense. She suggested I post it because it’s nonsense 🙂
Bringing a gun into a house changes it
Even when it is not your gun
And not your houseFingers snatch at your wrist
‘Don’t go in!’
A glimpse of join-the-dots red etches on your brainYou spin
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Woolleybeans replied to the topic Publishing deal!! in the forum Podium 6 years, 10 months ago
So pleased for you, Kaz. 🙂
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Jules replied to the topic Publishing deal!! in the forum Podium 6 years, 10 months ago
Massive congratulations, Kaz 😁 really well deserved and so glad Ava id finally taking wing in front of a larger audience. Can’t wait to get my signed copy. Champagne and cake all round 🎂🥂
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Monthly comp – July 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 10 months ago
Bringing a gun into the house changes it
Baz got the letter on his fourteenth birthday; he was now old enough to get a gun from the government store, so he finished hoeing the weeds among the vegetables and went to get it. His mother wept a little and his sisters picked the peas and looked sombre.
Nothing much changed at first. He kept the gun…[Read more]
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Janette replied to the topic Publishing deal!! in the forum Podium 6 years, 10 months ago
Wooohooo! Bringing my happy dance onto here because it deserves a dance and it’s lovely to hear good news of such a brilliant degree.
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Publishing deal!! in the forum Podium 6 years, 10 months ago
Wonderful, wonderful news!
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Squidge replied to the topic Publishing deal!! in the forum Podium 6 years, 10 months ago
Bloody fantastic news, Kaz! Well done xxx
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Athelstone replied to the topic Publishing deal!! in the forum Podium 6 years, 10 months ago
Wow, Kaz. Brilliant news and really deserved!
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John S Alty replied to the topic Publishing deal!! in the forum Podium 6 years, 10 months ago
Well done, congratulations!
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Seagreen replied to the topic Publishing deal!! in the forum Podium 6 years, 10 months ago
Woohoo! Go you!!
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KazG started the topic Publishing deal!! in the forum Podium 6 years, 10 months ago
And it’s OFFICIAL! I’ve been bursting to tell you all 🙂
After SO LONG waiting and biting nails etc, I have signed a 2-book deal with Penguin Random House Australia! When Days Tilt will publish in Feb 2021 (I know!) and When Souls Tear 6 months later in August. Since I’m still on the first draft of WST that timing is probably a Good Thing.
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Daedalus replied to the topic Monthly comp – July 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 10 months ago
Bringing a gun into a house changes it. You can’t help it, of course. The trick is not letting on to everyone else that you’ve changed it. Keeping everything looking exactly the same, so all the neighbours, passersby, any visitors have no idea what you’ve done.
It’s a specific kind of visitor we have in mind. The kind that bulldozes in mob-han…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly comp – July 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 10 months ago
Bringing a gun into a house changes it. I move from hallway to sitting room. Little Kev is trying to hide behind a chair. Bang! I shoot him through it. This isn’t the house where Kev lives anymore. His mum stands on the stairs, screaming. Screams of shock and denial I suppose. Bang! Screamy house one minute, quiet house the next. I step over her b…[Read more]
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthly comp – July 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 10 months ago
Bringing a gun into the house changes it; that’s the truth. It’s not as if it was much of a gun, just an old Spanish automatic called a Ruby. Piece of junk, but cheap on the street. I never knew my dad to be scared of anything but he was scared now. Really scared.
Before, when he hit my mother, we cowered in a corner of the kitchen, my sis…[Read more]
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Raine posted an update 6 years, 10 months ago
I have some child-gone-to-granny days and need to do something productive, but I have 3 wips that I could edit or one half written thing from NaNo (loooooong ago) and I DONT KNOW WHICH TO DO.
Send help. And tea. And vote:
A – replot old wip1
B – try out BIG rewrite of opening to wip2
C – read through of wip3 before beta read
D – try to…[Read more]-
E of course and then maybe B but really you should do whatever you want.
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Well, eat chocolate, obvs. You need sustenance. But while eating chocolate option C strikes me as the most time-sensitive, assuming you have a beta reader lined up. If option C is not, in fact, time-sensitive then just do whatever grabs you. While eating chocolate.
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Yup, I second Bella as that does have a sort of deadline. And ought to afford time for copious chocolate consumption.
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I’d agree, if something is time sensitive, do that first. Otherwise choose whichever is most likely to be finished or substantially completed in the time you have available so you can cross it off your list/see an end in sight for it.
And eat and drink whatever helps the process along!
Good luck.
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It goes without saying, chocolate first … while listening to where your heart is at, and don’t panic about the rest.
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I’m strangely drawn to E.
Me-time, or in your case, you-time, is so important. Let’s be honest, you won’t be getting much more of it. You may think that when they’re grown and off to pastures new, you’ll have loads of opportunity. Let me just say ‘HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA’.-
Now I’m trying to remember who had the catch phrace ‘I’m strangely drawn to…’ It was definitely a me-in-the-audience thing so it could have been a comedian (Julian Clary?) or maybe a lecturer from way back.
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Daedalus posted an update 6 years, 10 months ago
My WW2 novella ‘Harpoon’ is 99p on Kindle for a few days if anyone fancies giving it a go https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07SLM49R4
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Thanks for the heads up, Daeds. It’s now waiting for me on my Kindle!
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I’m looking forward to reading this, Daeds!
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OOh … off to find it now…
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Thanks all! Hope you enjoy it
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JaneShuff replied to the topic Help with a Title, please. in the forum The Writers' Lifeboat 6 years, 10 months ago
ZAnd it’s a vote for ‘improbable’ from me too.
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Squidge replied to the topic Monthly comp – July 2019 in the forum Monthly Competition 6 years, 10 months ago
Nice. Might have a go as I’m in between edits…
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