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Tim Arnot - Flick Carter #1: FREED!
Oh dear. I just wrote the words "Felicity Anne Carter was dead." That could be a bit worrying...
If you're spoilering you'll be in deep doodoos!I still think there'd be no Book Three if she did.
Hehe! Remember that 'doof doof' moment I mentioned in the nano thread? Could be related - not saying it is, mind... ;)BTW, if Flick did got wed, Kath would have to do the arch ;)
And yes there will still be a book 3 :D
It would be my pleasure to do Flick's arch! Especially if she's still alive!
You'll have to wait and see. I have to admit, the bombshell that got dropped the other day wasn't exactly in my outline, so there's had to be a certain amount of rejigging, which is why I'm short on words again today (that and a trip to the flicks... er, pictures!)
Sergeant Valentis. You're gonna *love* this guy! Even his mother called him sergeant... ;)
I've had to order more paperbacks!I ordered 5 as the first batch, since technically they were proofs, and there was the chance I wouldn't approve them (a small chance, but a chance nevertheless)
This time, I ordered 20. On crunching the numbers, 20 seems to be the optimum quantity, between cost per unit and overall cost. Any more than that and the cost per unit actually starts to rise again! Even buying 50 only works out 2p per book cheaper than 20! Even so, it's still a big chunk of change (ouch!)
Hmmm, sounds like a plan...(scratches chin, deep in thought)
The unit cost for 20 is over a quid cheaper than for 5, and about £2.60 cheaper than for 1! But the unit cost for 25 is 4p more than for 20. Go figure...There's 0 savings on the printing cost for 50 compared to 1 -- I'd have expected at least *something* :( so the only saving is in terms of shipping. And there really is no advantage to buying more than 20. Not that I imagine I'll need to do even that very often.
Strange. You'd think unit costs as well as shipping would be cheaper the more you bought.So, order in batches of 20 then eh ;)
So I started thinking about my fantasy movie cast... (it's the heat, I tell you!)Flick: Saoirse Ronan or Sophie Turner
Shea: Kit Harington
Adam: Asa Butterfield (the kid from Hugo)
Rosie: Tough this one. I originally thought Chloë Moretz, but she might be too old by the time the film gets made...
Jessica: Karen Gillan
Hannah: Dakota Blue Richards
Be curious how other readers see the cast...
You'll not be surprised then, that I haven't heard of a single one of those.
Let's see...Saoirse Ronan was Hanna in the film of the same name. She also starred in The Host and appeared in a bunch of other films.
Sophie Turner was Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones
Kit Harrington was Jon Snow in GoT
Chloë Moretz was Hit Girl in Kick Ass, starred in Hick (talked about today in Just Watched), Hugo and others. She'd be really good as (view spoiler) if it was made 'right now'
Karen Gillan was Amy Pond in Dr Who
Dakota Blue Richards was Lyra in The Amber Spyglass, and appeared in later seasons of Skins
Right - never seen any of those, which explains it. I can't watch films and read - so I read!
Through a series of serendipitous happenings, I've come up with the vast bulk of the plot for book 3 (there's a very obscure indirect connection to Red Dwarf in there somewhere...)Got to get book 2 finished first though... (you'll notice somewhere down the road, I stopped referring to titles!)
Now back to work damn you! (at least I'm not trying to clean soup out of my iPad today...)
Indirect connection... Please let it be a cat like Danny Jon-Jules! :-)
My blog has now moved across to my main site: http://www.tim-arnot.com And there are *new posts* TaDa!!!!!Also, Flick's blog is back up and running after a minor accident in cPanel (who knew that little red X meant "uninstall wordpress, delete everything you ever wrote, destroy the world then turn off the lights" rather than "reinstall"?)
http://www.flickcarter.com
New posts there too :)
Faringdon House (one of my key locations) featured in yesterday's BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Drama:As WW2 nears its conclusion, James Lees-Milne is sent to assess Faringdon House in Berkshire for the National Trust. Faringdon is home to the composer, artist and poet Gerald, Lord Berners, who has returned to England under a cloud, having spent most of the war in Rome. Lord Berners is an eccentric through-and-through - a man given to dying his doves to co-ordinate with the food he's serving and the once proud owner of a pet giraffe...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036kscx
It may only be there for a week, so get in quick!
I'm A.K. Trowelthing (and so's my wife!)Just saying...
I'm not sure this is one to boast about... I've now sold my age in books!!!!(There's no way to win on that one, cos either I haven't sold many at all, or I'm about to thump you!)
Even I'm saying nothing! :)
Tim wrote: "Let's see...Saoirse Ronan was Hanna in the film of the same name. She also starred in The Host and appeared in a bunch of other films.
Sophie Turner was Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones
Kit Harri..."
Lol so half brother & sister would get smoochy then ;)
Hope you dont mind - i've recommended it to a few people :)
Tim wrote: "*Awesome!* :D"If I had the money, I'd buy your book, but I'm afraid I'm skint. Could you lend me the money? :)
Well done on getting the book out.
If I had a pound for every time someone said that to me, I'd be able to lend you the money!!!
Just wanna say, i noticed the cover version you have on amazon, the blue looks good too!
Off to the theatre in a mo for the tech rehearsal of Rookery Nook ;)This means no writing again today (yesterday we built what is probably the biggest and most complex set we've had for many years! & no doubt there will be snags to attend to between rehearsals...)
Weather forecast is for 38 degrees later this week, oh joy!
Lots of fluids!
Well, I've had a pleasant little moan at Amazon this morning about the paperback edition not being linked to the kindle edition. They've said they'll sort it, but it could take up to 72 hours...I'm still left wondering if I got the pricing right on the paperback. Bearing in mind that postage from Amazon is free for Supersaver delivery, it's actually 61p cheaper to buy from Amazon than to buy direct from Feed-a-read, even at the "author discount" price! And I get royalties on top of that!
This morning I scrawled out the rough plot of my first non-Flick Carter novel. It's a standalone, but still set in the Kingsmen universe. There will be some familiar characters although it's not directly related to the Flick Carter story.
That's good to know. The 'world' you've created is full of possibilities. Shame to waste it!
Maybe one day it'll be popular enough to qualify for Kindle Worlds lol http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html...
Here's a really nice quote from Andy Barrett:"Set in a future where technology, and even electricity, are forgotten luxuries of an old past, where people are surrounded by skeletons of the long-dead Information Age, Wanted is set in what might be described as a reborn civilisation where skill and ingenuity are needed to thrive.
"What's not new in this future, are politics and corruption. Tim has drawn them superbly; and to counter the bad is an expertly created good. The people of Faringdon get by well enough, they have their Watch to protect them at the city gates, but not all evil exists outside them.
"This is a wonderfully written story featuring characters like Flick who you take to immediately, and others like Dixon who you might approach with some caution. And then there's the Mayor - a man you wouldn't approach at all!
"I loved this world, and I wouldn't mind living in it. With that in mind, I wait eagerly for the second of Tim's books."
:-D
WANTED now has a new cover:
Woo hoo! :)
And even better, from now till the end of August, the price is down to £1.99 / $2.99
Let the good times roll, baby! :D
I wondered why Flick didn't show up for work today... http://www.flickcarter.comCannes... jewel heist... Shea... coincidence?
Please feel free to vote for Wanted on the Listopia Best Young Adult Books thingy: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/43... :)
The Black Ghost. Is that too cheesy a name for a "cleaner"? (it's what other people call him, not what he calls himself)
As long as the colour isn't to do with the state of his fingernails!
It's cos he wears black and keeps disappearing...
Just blew two month's royalties on getting me hair cut!There'll be a cold snap now, cos me ears are showing...
Reminds me of that song, "Whoah, oh, me ears are alight!"
Haha! You daft wazzock! I did a double-take on that one!
It's excellent, isn't it Steven?Altogether now - Book 2, Book 2!
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