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What a great story, @skylark. Wish I was there for your keynote, but I can only justify coming over from Ireland if I’ve got something written that I can talk about. Which I’ve not got. But your success is well-deserved, and I’m sure you’ll inspire a ton of people with your talk on Sunday!

Philippa, I’ve called him Deads at least 3 or 4 times (hurrying or spellcheck fail) and he’s always been most gracious about it. 😄 Just thinking about your first chapter and pitch success, and Mandy’s keynote speech, makes me doubly happy to go this year.

Hi Elle,

You have some neat phrases – “an artificial sun of modern technology”, ” in a voice too high to be natural”, “The answer nothing more than a Pavlovian response.” “Had her mother been one of those flashes of light?”. I could probably go on some more.

I think one big stumbling block for me is the sentence structure. You have alot of…[Read more]

@Jonathan thank you! And that sounds great – enjoy!

What a journey – and what a great writeup! Gutted I won’t be there this year – it sounds like I really need to get to York more often. I’m signed up to one of Emma’s SE days though 🙂

(Side note: still getting used to this site. How do those tags work and how come some names became tags and others didn’t?)

Thank you all!
@Julie Cordiner looking forward to seeing you too!
@GippsGirl Sorry to miss you this time – hug accepted and returned! 😘
@Louise see you there!
@Daedalus steady on, I’m not supposed to blub until Sunday 😉😁
@Philippa you’re well on your way. I can’t wait to see where your journey takes you on the next few years…[Read more]

*Daeds, even

Hi Deads, I can write a blog, but I’m only going to be at the Festival for the Sunday, so I’m not sure how helpful it will be!

Skylark, you know you are my inspiration! I’ve watched what you’ve achieved, and I’m just like, “I want that!” It is lovely to see your “journey” from start to finish. I am so looking forward to your speech. xxx

Wonderful stuff Skylark. What a journey! And yet more proof that success can happen to the best and nicest of people. Will be thinking of you as you deliver your richly deserved keynote