A.L. Butcher's Blog, page 198
November 23, 2012
Cover Art
So today:
1) Felt ill
2) Had a crappy day
3) Had a row with the IRS
4) BUT last night found out my cover art is almost ready:) Yay.
1) Felt ill
2) Had a crappy day
3) Had a row with the IRS
4) BUT last night found out my cover art is almost ready:) Yay.
October 13, 2012
Funnies
These are genuine clips from British Council flat tenants, complaining to the Council about problems with their flats!!
1. My bush is really overgrown round the front and my back passage has fungus growing in it.
2. He's got this huge tool that vibrates the whole house and I just can't take it any more.
3. It is the dog's mess that I find hard to swallow.
4. I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt my knob off.
5. I wish to complain that my father hurt his ankle very badly when he put his foot in the hole in his back passage.
6. And their 18 year old son is continually banging his balls against our fence.
7. I wish to report that tiles are missing from the outside toilet roof. I think it was bad wind the other night that blew them off.
8. I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is coming away from the wall.
9. Will you please send someone to mend the garden path? My wife tripped and fell on it yesterday and now she is pregnant.
10. I request permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen.
11. 50% of the walls are damp, 50% have crumbling plaster and 50% are plain filthy.
12. I am still having problems with smoke in my new drawers.
13. The toilet is blocked and we cannot bath the children until it is cleared.
14. Will you please send a man to look at my water; it is a funny colour and not fit to drink.
15. Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in three pieces.
16. I want to complain about the farmer across the road; every morning at 6am his trampoline wakes me up and it's now getting too much for me.
17. The man next door has a large erection in the back garden, which is unsightly and dangerous.
18. Our kitchen floor is damp. We have two children and would like a third so please send someone round to do something about it.
19. I am a single woman living in a downstairs flat and would you please do something about the noise made by the man on top of me every night.
20. Please send a man with the right tool to finish the job and satisfy my wife.
21. I have had the clerk of works down on the floor six times but still have no satisfaction.
22. This is to let you know that our lavatory seat is broke and we can't get BBC2.
1. My bush is really overgrown round the front and my back passage has fungus growing in it.
2. He's got this huge tool that vibrates the whole house and I just can't take it any more.
3. It is the dog's mess that I find hard to swallow.
4. I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt my knob off.
5. I wish to complain that my father hurt his ankle very badly when he put his foot in the hole in his back passage.
6. And their 18 year old son is continually banging his balls against our fence.
7. I wish to report that tiles are missing from the outside toilet roof. I think it was bad wind the other night that blew them off.
8. I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is coming away from the wall.
9. Will you please send someone to mend the garden path? My wife tripped and fell on it yesterday and now she is pregnant.
10. I request permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen.
11. 50% of the walls are damp, 50% have crumbling plaster and 50% are plain filthy.
12. I am still having problems with smoke in my new drawers.
13. The toilet is blocked and we cannot bath the children until it is cleared.
14. Will you please send a man to look at my water; it is a funny colour and not fit to drink.
15. Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in three pieces.
16. I want to complain about the farmer across the road; every morning at 6am his trampoline wakes me up and it's now getting too much for me.
17. The man next door has a large erection in the back garden, which is unsightly and dangerous.
18. Our kitchen floor is damp. We have two children and would like a third so please send someone round to do something about it.
19. I am a single woman living in a downstairs flat and would you please do something about the noise made by the man on top of me every night.
20. Please send a man with the right tool to finish the job and satisfy my wife.
21. I have had the clerk of works down on the floor six times but still have no satisfaction.
22. This is to let you know that our lavatory seat is broke and we can't get BBC2.
October 12, 2012
Still reviewing
Facebook is very distracting! However the reviewing of book 2 is moving along now. I am hoping my cover artist gets back to me fairly soon so I can panic if she has not managed to come up with anything. I had some stills shots she sent over but she wasn't happy with them.
Planning book 3, shuffled a few ideas around and this idea fits a little better. I can use the original idea elsewhere.
Hoping to get a wriggle on this weekend. I have an idea for another short story for my dark fairy tales also. If I can just get the idea to manifest enough to write it.
Planning book 3, shuffled a few ideas around and this idea fits a little better. I can use the original idea elsewhere.
Hoping to get a wriggle on this weekend. I have an idea for another short story for my dark fairy tales also. If I can just get the idea to manifest enough to write it.
August 26, 2012
Editing
So reviewing and first edit of Book 2 is going slowly. I have pretty much rewritten 2 chapters so far but they now work a lot better.
Hoping to tinker a little with book 1, nothing major but just a few minor edits.
Mulling over book 3 as well, fortunately I think what I had started doing still works.
Hoping to tinker a little with book 1, nothing major but just a few minor edits.
Mulling over book 3 as well, fortunately I think what I had started doing still works.
August 11, 2012
Cover Artist for book 2
Yay
Met the potential cover artist for my second book in the series yesterday. She has lots of lovely ideas and I am very excited. I suppose I best get on with reviewing and checking the WIP.
Met the potential cover artist for my second book in the series yesterday. She has lots of lovely ideas and I am very excited. I suppose I best get on with reviewing and checking the WIP.
July 23, 2012
Light Beyond the Storm Chronicles -Book 2
So editing book 2 and wondering how I can make it shorter, fixed a few continuity issues. Have many plans for the future:)
July 21, 2012
Hello
Hiho
Just trying this out as an experiment:)
Never had a blog before:) Currently I am editing Book 2 of the Light Beyond the Storm Chronicles, and good news is I have found a cover artist as well.
I have lots of ideas as I have decided to change the ending I had planned for book 2 and it gives me far more scope:)
Just trying this out as an experiment:)
Never had a blog before:) Currently I am editing Book 2 of the Light Beyond the Storm Chronicles, and good news is I have found a cover artist as well.
I have lots of ideas as I have decided to change the ending I had planned for book 2 and it gives me far more scope:)
