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November 22, 2012
“Thoroughly Satisfying” – Jenny Twist’s All in the Mind
Read Tori Ridgewood’s wonderful review on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/All-Mind-Jenny-...
“I devoured this book over the course of three lunch hours and completed it while my daughter was in her dance class. I didn't want to leave this world for a moment. Jenny Twist has once again entranced me with her wonderful imagination, articulate command of language, beautifully envisioned characters, and original plot. Please read this book and ask a friend to read it, too. In these dark days of November, or in the early days of spring, or in the light of summer, it's a thoroughly satisfying romance.”
Thank you so much, Tori
Love
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Or email me on casahoya@gmail.com
“I devoured this book over the course of three lunch hours and completed it while my daughter was in her dance class. I didn't want to leave this world for a moment. Jenny Twist has once again entranced me with her wonderful imagination, articulate command of language, beautifully envisioned characters, and original plot. Please read this book and ask a friend to read it, too. In these dark days of November, or in the early days of spring, or in the light of summer, it's a thoroughly satisfying romance.”
Thank you so much, Tori
Love
Jenny Twist
xxxx
Follow me on:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/JennyTwist1
Or email me on casahoya@gmail.com
November 21, 2012
After the Editing – The Novel – Jenny Twist’s All in the Mind
All in the Mind survived and was published in October. Read about it at Dreamer’s Perch:
http://bit.ly/QrHHCr
And PLEASE leave a comment. It will make me so happy!
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http://bit.ly/QrHHCr
And PLEASE leave a comment. It will make me so happy!
Love
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Or email me on casahoya@gmail.com
November 20, 2012
The Tale of an Escapologist’s Assistant – Jenny Twist
Visit me at Tim Vicary’s site and read about my life as an escapologist`s assistant, my nefarious granny and other stuff,
http://timvicary.wordpress.com/tims-c...
I’m very flattered to be Tim’s first guest. So please visit and leave a comment to encourage him to do it again.
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http://timvicary.wordpress.com/tims-c...
I’m very flattered to be Tim’s first guest. So please visit and leave a comment to encourage him to do it again.
Love
Jenny Twist
xxxx
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/JennyTwist1
Or email me on casahoya@gmail.com
November 19, 2012
How Much Do You Enjoy Being Edited?
From Nano to Publication – The Editing Process
My last year’s Nano novel, All in the Mind, was published on October 29th, nearly a year after I began writing it. It went through some vicissitudes on the way and very nearly fell at the last post.
I successfully (I believe) researched all those areas I was shaky on; several wonderful fellow authors answered my Twitter call to help me with that I was least confident about, Hindu culture; and a dozen or so fellow authors, including two professional editors and two English teachers read it before I submitted it for publication. I was as confident as I could be that it was near perfect.
Imagine, then, my surprise and horror when it came back with page after page of ‘corrections’. The editor had virtually re-written my precious manuscript!
I disagreed with virtually all the changes, many of which, I am sure were made in an attempt to fulfil the new fashionable rules which are being imposed on authors. I discussed these at some length in the following article: http://jademystique.blogspot.com.es/?...
But, briefly, they are as follows:
1. All books written in English must be put into US English.
2. Stories should be limited to one point of view.
3. All ‘unnecessary’ words (such as adverbs) should be stripped out of the narrative.
4. The past tense should only be expressed using the preterit (simple past).
You will be aware that the truly great authors do not follow these rules. So why are we expected to? And where did they come from?
I can only imagine they have been invented by teachers of creative writing, probably in a vain attempt to produce formulae which will result in good writing from their students.
This is a similar approach to that adopted by sales companies some years ago. In the mistaken belief that bad salespeople could sell if they only said the right things, they introduced the sales script. The hapless would-be salespeople had to slavishly follow this script, which was cleverly created by a psychologist and designed to lead the prospective buyer inexorably to saying ‘yes’.
Did you experience any of these calls? They didn’t work. They didn’t work because the prospective customers did NOT follow the script. They would ask the wrong question and leave the poor salesperson floundering and unable to carry on. Those who were clever enough to lead the customer back to the script were, of course, clever enough to sell without a script!
These days those poor salespeople have to a large extent been replaced by robots. Companies still believe they can replace real, intelligent, empathetic people with machines programmed to answer questions. Anyone who has ever telephoned PayPal or Ryanair, or virtually any modern company will have experienced the frustration of an electronic voice asking you to give your account number, to repeat it, making you choose from a variety of irrelevant options, none of which include speaking to a real person, then being referred back to the main menu.
Contact by internet will refer you to the FAQs page, and, if you click on email, being asked to choose from a list of subjects, none of which bears any relationship to your problem, then being referred back to the FAQs page. If you are really lucky they will give you a virtual operator who will … refer you back to the FAQs page. The result being that even if you eventually get to speak to a real person you are by then so angry that you have another complaint to add to your original one. Companies must lose huge numbers of customers this way but they still haven’t learnt.
The moral is:
You can’t make bad salespeople into good ones by making them follow a script. You can’t give good customer service if you replace real people with robots and you can’t make bad writers good by making them follow a set of ridiculous rules.
The whole point of creative writing is that it doesn’t have rules, other than those of grammar. That’s why it’s called creative writing.
What is truly frightening is that writers and editors seem to have swallowed this claptrap wholesale.
When it comes to editing, we should be careful to discriminate between editing and proof-reading. Every writer needs proof-reading, which consists of finding and correcting spelling mistakes; and continuity, typographical and grammatical errors, which do have rules.
Editing is rather more subtle. It is a matter of style. Good writers need little or no editing.
It takes a very brave editor to edit an author who is a better writer than they are. But, armed with their ‘infallible’ rules, even the most appalling writers believe they know how to improve on other people’s writing.
It’s time to throw these rules out of the window and stop restricting our writers. And it’s high time writers stopped taking any notice of these daft ideas. Just hit the ‘reject all changes’ button and proof-read it yourself.
My last year’s Nano novel, All in the Mind, was published on October 29th, nearly a year after I began writing it. It went through some vicissitudes on the way and very nearly fell at the last post.
I successfully (I believe) researched all those areas I was shaky on; several wonderful fellow authors answered my Twitter call to help me with that I was least confident about, Hindu culture; and a dozen or so fellow authors, including two professional editors and two English teachers read it before I submitted it for publication. I was as confident as I could be that it was near perfect.
Imagine, then, my surprise and horror when it came back with page after page of ‘corrections’. The editor had virtually re-written my precious manuscript!
I disagreed with virtually all the changes, many of which, I am sure were made in an attempt to fulfil the new fashionable rules which are being imposed on authors. I discussed these at some length in the following article: http://jademystique.blogspot.com.es/?...
But, briefly, they are as follows:
1. All books written in English must be put into US English.
2. Stories should be limited to one point of view.
3. All ‘unnecessary’ words (such as adverbs) should be stripped out of the narrative.
4. The past tense should only be expressed using the preterit (simple past).
You will be aware that the truly great authors do not follow these rules. So why are we expected to? And where did they come from?
I can only imagine they have been invented by teachers of creative writing, probably in a vain attempt to produce formulae which will result in good writing from their students.
This is a similar approach to that adopted by sales companies some years ago. In the mistaken belief that bad salespeople could sell if they only said the right things, they introduced the sales script. The hapless would-be salespeople had to slavishly follow this script, which was cleverly created by a psychologist and designed to lead the prospective buyer inexorably to saying ‘yes’.
Did you experience any of these calls? They didn’t work. They didn’t work because the prospective customers did NOT follow the script. They would ask the wrong question and leave the poor salesperson floundering and unable to carry on. Those who were clever enough to lead the customer back to the script were, of course, clever enough to sell without a script!
These days those poor salespeople have to a large extent been replaced by robots. Companies still believe they can replace real, intelligent, empathetic people with machines programmed to answer questions. Anyone who has ever telephoned PayPal or Ryanair, or virtually any modern company will have experienced the frustration of an electronic voice asking you to give your account number, to repeat it, making you choose from a variety of irrelevant options, none of which include speaking to a real person, then being referred back to the main menu.
Contact by internet will refer you to the FAQs page, and, if you click on email, being asked to choose from a list of subjects, none of which bears any relationship to your problem, then being referred back to the FAQs page. If you are really lucky they will give you a virtual operator who will … refer you back to the FAQs page. The result being that even if you eventually get to speak to a real person you are by then so angry that you have another complaint to add to your original one. Companies must lose huge numbers of customers this way but they still haven’t learnt.
The moral is:
You can’t make bad salespeople into good ones by making them follow a script. You can’t give good customer service if you replace real people with robots and you can’t make bad writers good by making them follow a set of ridiculous rules.
The whole point of creative writing is that it doesn’t have rules, other than those of grammar. That’s why it’s called creative writing.
What is truly frightening is that writers and editors seem to have swallowed this claptrap wholesale.
When it comes to editing, we should be careful to discriminate between editing and proof-reading. Every writer needs proof-reading, which consists of finding and correcting spelling mistakes; and continuity, typographical and grammatical errors, which do have rules.
Editing is rather more subtle. It is a matter of style. Good writers need little or no editing.
It takes a very brave editor to edit an author who is a better writer than they are. But, armed with their ‘infallible’ rules, even the most appalling writers believe they know how to improve on other people’s writing.
It’s time to throw these rules out of the window and stop restricting our writers. And it’s high time writers stopped taking any notice of these daft ideas. Just hit the ‘reject all changes’ button and proof-read it yourself.
November 18, 2012
All in the Mind Now in Print on Amazon
Hi everyone
All in the Mind is finally available in print on both Amazon sites:
US: http://www.amazon.com/All-Mind-Jenny-...
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Mind-Jenn...
Love
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/JennyTwist1
Or email me on casahoya@gmail.com
All in the Mind is finally available in print on both Amazon sites:
US: http://www.amazon.com/All-Mind-Jenny-...
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Mind-Jenn...
Love
Jenny Twist
xxxx
Follow me on:
my Website: https://sites.google.com/site/jennytw...
Amazon: amazon.com/author/jennytwist
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jenny-...
Goodreads Blog: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/JennyTwist1
Or email me on casahoya@gmail.com
November 14, 2012
All in the Mind
Years ago I read about an experiment in an old peoples’ home. I can’t remember where I read this or what they were attempting to prove, but I do remember that the experiment consisted of recreating the environment of the residents’ youth with films, radio programmes, newspapers, etc. and the thing that intrigued me, which is what made me remember it, was that the subjects’ hair darkened.
I’ve had the idea lurking at the back of my mind ever since. What if you carried the experiment to its logical conclusion?
Last year I entered Nanowrimo for the first time (a competition to write a novel in a month) and this was the idea that resurfaced when I sat down at my computer. I have never written so fast and furiously in my life before. The story just poured onto the page.
I kept coming across gaps in my knowledge but followed Stephen King’s advice and just carried on writing, intending to deal with all that later.
When I picked it up again a few weeks later and got down to seriously working on it I found I had to do a lot of research on the Second World War. I knew a fair bit already from reading and television documentaries, as well as from the experiences of my own parents, but I needed to know things like what branded goods they used, how the rationing system worked and so on.
I also realised, when one of my characters suddenly got completely out of hand and decided to return to India, that I was woefully ignorant of Indian culture. I knew some from reading, and I had studied a lot of Indian history at university, but I had no idea whether my knowledge would suffice for modern day India. The problem with something like that is you don’t know what it is you don’t know. I did not realise, for example, that a Hindu would be unlikely to understand Urdu. So I appealed on Twitter for experts on Hindu culture to read and correct it. I had four responses and checked all their comments with Google. Thank you, you wonderful people. You’ve saved me a lot of embarrassment. And thank God for Google. It’s saved me weeks of work.
My dear friend, Caroline, read the proofs when she was staying with me and suggested the idea for a cover. She painted the beautiful hands. They belong to her mother, Anne Ritson, to whom the book is dedicated. The photograph is of my own mother, May Thornton, who was a nurse at the end of the Second World War.
So, to a large extent, this book is the product of friendship.
Here are some of the things other authors have to say about it:
“Jenny Twist is an enormously talented story-weaver who just goes on getting better. Fans of the wonderful novel, ‘Domingo’s Angel’ will not be disappointed with this latest offering from her. It’s a sweet and haunting feel-good story which will immerse you totally in its fictional world and leave you feeling deeply satisfied. Absolutely recommended.”
Lynette Sofras
“All in the Mind will take you on a mind trip, one from which you won't want to return. As always, Jenny Twist's fiction is an addictive treat that's tightly woven to draw the readers in and keep them there.”
Su Halfwerk
“This book moved me more than any other in recent memory, not because it was sad, although some scenes were very tragic, but because of the depth of emotion I felt for the characters, and the lasting love they share. . I dare anyone to read this book and not be moved to tears of joy.”
Tara Fox Hall
Excerpt
Tilly was dreaming.
It was VE Day and they were dancing in the streets. All the lights were lit. She kept looking at them, not quite believing it.
She was dancing with Johnny, her head against his chest, exhilarated by his closeness and the knowledge that the war was over.
It was so real, the dream. She could feel the rough fabric of his greatcoat against her cheek, smell its particular aroma of damp wool and tobacco.
She felt the dream slipping away and tried to hold on to it, but it escaped her grasp and shifted seamlessly into memory.
They had danced late into the night. Long after the gates to the nurses' home were locked. Eventually, exhausted and intoxicated with the euphoria of the crowd, they had walked back to the nurses' home and he had given her a leg up to climb the wall.
And as she sat at the top of the wall, one leg on each side, getting ready to swing over to the other side, he had grasped her by the ankle and said, “Will you marry me, Tilly? As soon as I'm demobbed.”
She looked down at his face, illuminated by the one street lamp in the lane, one lock of hair hanging over his forehead, his expression earnest and pleading.
She said the first thing that came into her head. “You're supposed to get down on one knee.”
“OK,” he said, with a grin, and dropped down on one knee. Did he know? Did he know then what her answer would be?
“Tilly”... he began in a loud, theatrical voice.
“No, get up,” she whispered urgently. “Someone might hear.”
“Who cares? What are they going to do – sack you?”
She smiled back at him in the lamplight. “You fool!”
And she pulled her leg out of his grasp and dropped gracefully down to the grass on the other side.
“Well?” His head appeared over the top of the wall. “Will you?”
“Yes,” she whispered back to him. Then she picked up the skirts of her uniform and ran across the lawn towards the darkened building.
As she ran, she heard someone whistling the Wedding March, the sound fading as he reached the end of the lane and turned into the street.
US: http://www.amazon.com/All-in-the-Mind...
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-in-the-Mi...
http://www.melange-books.com/authors/...
Bio
Jenny Twist was born in York and brought up in the West Yorkshire mill town of Heckmondwike, the eldest grandchild of a huge extended family.
She left school at fifteen and went to work in an asbestos factory. After working in various jobs, including bacon-packer and escapologist’s assistant, she returned to full-time education and did a BA in history at Manchester and post-graduate studies at Oxford.
She stayed in Oxford working as a recruitment consultant for many years and it was there that she met and married her husband, Vic.
In 2001 they retired and moved to Southern Spain where they live with their rather eccentric dog and cat
Her first book, Take One At Bedtime, was published in April 2011 and the second, Domingo’s Angel, was published in July 2011. Her novella, Doppelganger, was published in the anthology Curious Hearts in July 2011, Uncle Vernon, was published in Spellbound, in November 2011, Jamey and the Alien and Uncle Albert’s Christmas were published in Warm Christmas Wishes in December 2011, Mantequero was published in the anthology Winter Wonders in December 2011 and Away With the Fairies, her first self-published story, in September 2012.
Her new anthology, with Tara Fox Hall, Bedtime Shadows, a collection of spooky, speculative and romance stories, was published 24th September 2012.
Her new novel, All in the Mind, about an old woman who mysteriously begins to get younger, will be published 29th October 2012.
You can find out more about Jenny here:
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/jennytw...
Amazon: amazon.com/author/jennytwist
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jenny-...
Goodreads Blog: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/JennyTwist1
Email: casahoya@gmail.com
All in the Mind
I’ve had the idea lurking at the back of my mind ever since. What if you carried the experiment to its logical conclusion?
Last year I entered Nanowrimo for the first time (a competition to write a novel in a month) and this was the idea that resurfaced when I sat down at my computer. I have never written so fast and furiously in my life before. The story just poured onto the page.
I kept coming across gaps in my knowledge but followed Stephen King’s advice and just carried on writing, intending to deal with all that later.
When I picked it up again a few weeks later and got down to seriously working on it I found I had to do a lot of research on the Second World War. I knew a fair bit already from reading and television documentaries, as well as from the experiences of my own parents, but I needed to know things like what branded goods they used, how the rationing system worked and so on.
I also realised, when one of my characters suddenly got completely out of hand and decided to return to India, that I was woefully ignorant of Indian culture. I knew some from reading, and I had studied a lot of Indian history at university, but I had no idea whether my knowledge would suffice for modern day India. The problem with something like that is you don’t know what it is you don’t know. I did not realise, for example, that a Hindu would be unlikely to understand Urdu. So I appealed on Twitter for experts on Hindu culture to read and correct it. I had four responses and checked all their comments with Google. Thank you, you wonderful people. You’ve saved me a lot of embarrassment. And thank God for Google. It’s saved me weeks of work.
My dear friend, Caroline, read the proofs when she was staying with me and suggested the idea for a cover. She painted the beautiful hands. They belong to her mother, Anne Ritson, to whom the book is dedicated. The photograph is of my own mother, May Thornton, who was a nurse at the end of the Second World War.
So, to a large extent, this book is the product of friendship.
Here are some of the things other authors have to say about it:
“Jenny Twist is an enormously talented story-weaver who just goes on getting better. Fans of the wonderful novel, ‘Domingo’s Angel’ will not be disappointed with this latest offering from her. It’s a sweet and haunting feel-good story which will immerse you totally in its fictional world and leave you feeling deeply satisfied. Absolutely recommended.”
Lynette Sofras
“All in the Mind will take you on a mind trip, one from which you won't want to return. As always, Jenny Twist's fiction is an addictive treat that's tightly woven to draw the readers in and keep them there.”
Su Halfwerk
“This book moved me more than any other in recent memory, not because it was sad, although some scenes were very tragic, but because of the depth of emotion I felt for the characters, and the lasting love they share. . I dare anyone to read this book and not be moved to tears of joy.”
Tara Fox Hall
Excerpt
Tilly was dreaming.
It was VE Day and they were dancing in the streets. All the lights were lit. She kept looking at them, not quite believing it.
She was dancing with Johnny, her head against his chest, exhilarated by his closeness and the knowledge that the war was over.
It was so real, the dream. She could feel the rough fabric of his greatcoat against her cheek, smell its particular aroma of damp wool and tobacco.
She felt the dream slipping away and tried to hold on to it, but it escaped her grasp and shifted seamlessly into memory.
They had danced late into the night. Long after the gates to the nurses' home were locked. Eventually, exhausted and intoxicated with the euphoria of the crowd, they had walked back to the nurses' home and he had given her a leg up to climb the wall.
And as she sat at the top of the wall, one leg on each side, getting ready to swing over to the other side, he had grasped her by the ankle and said, “Will you marry me, Tilly? As soon as I'm demobbed.”
She looked down at his face, illuminated by the one street lamp in the lane, one lock of hair hanging over his forehead, his expression earnest and pleading.
She said the first thing that came into her head. “You're supposed to get down on one knee.”
“OK,” he said, with a grin, and dropped down on one knee. Did he know? Did he know then what her answer would be?
“Tilly”... he began in a loud, theatrical voice.
“No, get up,” she whispered urgently. “Someone might hear.”
“Who cares? What are they going to do – sack you?”
She smiled back at him in the lamplight. “You fool!”
And she pulled her leg out of his grasp and dropped gracefully down to the grass on the other side.
“Well?” His head appeared over the top of the wall. “Will you?”
“Yes,” she whispered back to him. Then she picked up the skirts of her uniform and ran across the lawn towards the darkened building.
As she ran, she heard someone whistling the Wedding March, the sound fading as he reached the end of the lane and turned into the street.
US: http://www.amazon.com/All-in-the-Mind...
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-in-the-Mi...
http://www.melange-books.com/authors/...
Bio
Jenny Twist was born in York and brought up in the West Yorkshire mill town of Heckmondwike, the eldest grandchild of a huge extended family.
She left school at fifteen and went to work in an asbestos factory. After working in various jobs, including bacon-packer and escapologist’s assistant, she returned to full-time education and did a BA in history at Manchester and post-graduate studies at Oxford.
She stayed in Oxford working as a recruitment consultant for many years and it was there that she met and married her husband, Vic.
In 2001 they retired and moved to Southern Spain where they live with their rather eccentric dog and cat
Her first book, Take One At Bedtime, was published in April 2011 and the second, Domingo’s Angel, was published in July 2011. Her novella, Doppelganger, was published in the anthology Curious Hearts in July 2011, Uncle Vernon, was published in Spellbound, in November 2011, Jamey and the Alien and Uncle Albert’s Christmas were published in Warm Christmas Wishes in December 2011, Mantequero was published in the anthology Winter Wonders in December 2011 and Away With the Fairies, her first self-published story, in September 2012.
Her new anthology, with Tara Fox Hall, Bedtime Shadows, a collection of spooky, speculative and romance stories, was published 24th September 2012.
Her new novel, All in the Mind, about an old woman who mysteriously begins to get younger, will be published 29th October 2012.
You can find out more about Jenny here:
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/jennytw...
Amazon: amazon.com/author/jennytwist
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jenny-...
Goodreads Blog: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/JennyTwist1
Email: casahoya@gmail.com
All in the Mind
November 12, 2012
Anglo-American Relations by Jenny Twist
Ever wondered why Americans and Brits seem to be speaking a different language? It's because they are! Visit me on Dreamer’s Perch to find out more: http://dreamersperch.blogspot.com/201...
And I'd be SO grateful if you left a comment.
Love
Jenny Twist
xxxx
Follow me on:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/JennyTwist1
Or email me on casahoya@gmail.com
And I'd be SO grateful if you left a comment.
Love
Jenny Twist
xxxx
Follow me on:
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Amazon: amazon.com/author/jennytwist
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Goodreads Blog: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/JennyTwist1
Or email me on casahoya@gmail.com
November 10, 2012
10% OFF ALL E BOOKS AT MELANGE – BUY NOW
Hi everyone
10% off all e book orders at Melange 10-17 November in honour of Veteran’s Day.
http://www.melange-books.com/index.html
Enter this code: 75H786Y1
Offer available till 17th November.
Love
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/JennyTwist1
Or email me on casahoya@gmail.com
10% off all e book orders at Melange 10-17 November in honour of Veteran’s Day.
http://www.melange-books.com/index.html
Enter this code: 75H786Y1
Offer available till 17th November.
Love
Jenny Twist
xxxx
Follow me on:
my Website: https://sites.google.com/site/jennytw...
Amazon: amazon.com/author/jennytwist
Facebook:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/JennyTwist1
Or email me on casahoya@gmail.com
November 7, 2012
The NanoWrite Novel. Jenny Twist talks About All in the Mind
I’m at Great Minds Think Aloud, talking about how last year’s NanoWrite novel became this year’s novel – All in the Mind. http://greatmindsthinkaloud.blogspot....#
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Please drop by and leave a comment. I’d be SO grateful.
Love
Jenny Twist
xxxx
Follow me on:
my Website: https://sites.google.com/site/jennytw...
Amazon: amazon.com/author/jennytwist
Facebook:
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Goodreads Blog: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/JennyTwist1
Or email me on casahoya@gmail.com
November 4, 2012
First Reviews for All in the Mind – all 5 star!
I am so delighted with the reaction to my novel, “All in the Mind”, about an old woman getting younger.
4 reviews in so far on Goodreads and Amazon. Here is a snippet from Lyn Sofras:
'Tilly was dreaming', we are reminded from the start and while half of me didn't want Tilly to wake up from her wonderful dream and face whatever reality awaited her, the other half was constantly waiting for her to do so. And when she did, the most wonderful adventure of Tilly's life began to happen and I was entranced.
Read them all here:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...
Buy links.
Print: http://www.lulu.com/shop/jenny-twist/...
Kindle: US: http://www.amazon.com/All-in-the-Mind...
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-in-the-Mi...
Love
Jenny Twist
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/JennyTwist1
Or email me on casahoya@gmail.com
4 reviews in so far on Goodreads and Amazon. Here is a snippet from Lyn Sofras:
'Tilly was dreaming', we are reminded from the start and while half of me didn't want Tilly to wake up from her wonderful dream and face whatever reality awaited her, the other half was constantly waiting for her to do so. And when she did, the most wonderful adventure of Tilly's life began to happen and I was entranced.
Read them all here:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...
Buy links.
Print: http://www.lulu.com/shop/jenny-twist/...
Kindle: US: http://www.amazon.com/All-in-the-Mind...
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-in-the-Mi...
Love
Jenny Twist
xxxx
Follow me on:
my Website: https://sites.google.com/site/jennytw...
Amazon: amazon.com/author/jennytwist
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jenny-...
Goodreads Blog: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/JennyTwist1
Or email me on casahoya@gmail.com
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