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Anna Faversham: Hide in Time - Amazon #1 Time Travel Romance 0.99
Good luck with it Anna.That's two posts. Now just start mentioning bacon and elephants and you'll rack more up in no time. :~)
Did someone say elephants? Have you room for a few in here? We are rather overstocked at the moment...
Hi, Anna, and welcome. Glad you found your way offer here.I recommend Hide in Time - a most enjoyable read.
Blimey! Where did you all come from? I've only turned my back and taken a phone call and there you all are. How very, very nice of you to drop by.Elephants are a favourite with me. I often have an elephant in the room. They eat a lot don't they? Bacon mostly. Howzat? Any good? Actually, I have got elephants here, there and everywhere. They came in a trunk I packed when leaving Africa. Then there's the kudu and the... yup, it's a bit like a zoo.
Lynda wrote: "Hi, Anna, and welcome. Glad you found your way offer here.I recommend Hide in Time - a most enjoyable read."
You lovely lady! Thanks for the welcome and thanks for the recommendation.
I'm keeping an eye on your progress with yours too.
Thanks. Have you started it, yet?
This is far too sensible for a new thread.
Lets have some decoration. Curtains, for a start.Will these do?
http://www.keraladial.com/upload/gall...
Very nice, and red enough to hide the flames.
Lynda wrote: "Thanks. Have you started it, yet?"Are we talking elephants, bacon, or Verity?
If Verity - yes and there's a 5* (I'm pretty sure of that)review on Amazon's Strictly.
Or, are you saying you have finished writing the latest book before I've finished the others?
Or, is this the ward for the confused?
Gingerlily - Smiter of idiots. wrote: "Lets have some decoration. Curtains, for a start.Will these do?
http://www.keraladial.com/upload/gall..."
The elephants would prefer green, please.
Ok, I'll have another look when i am on my laptop again. Must keep the elephants happy.
David wrote: "This is far too sensible for a new thread."So nice of you to think so. Would you like a place in the ward? Are you OK with green curtains?
Ah, here are some nice green curtains.http://blindsforslidingdoor.com/wp-co...
or maybe these?
http://st.houzz.com/simgs/7ea112f2002...
or how about
http://diwise.net/wp-content/uploads/...
It doesn't matter what colour the curtains are, Anna, not once Patti discovers your thread. :~)
Gingerlily - Smiter of idiots. wrote: "Ah, here are some nice green curtains.http://blindsforslidingdoor.com/wp-co...
or maybe these?
http:/..."
I'll let Patti choose.
David wrote: "It doesn't matter what colour the curtains are, Anna, not once Patti discovers your thread. :~)"Oh, oh. Will she go easy on me as I'm new and letting her choose the curtains?
Now - about my book. Now is the time to buy it. It is discounted - Kindle Countdown Deal.
(Does that sound better, David. Will I be allowed to stay?)
What David is hinting at, is that Patti has this habit of setting the curtains on fire. There are many author threads that are still slightly singed around the edges. So it could be wise to just get a cheap flimsy pair, let her at them, and then do a proper decoration job.
Yeah, Patti completely trashed my place - and left me with polka dot curtains when I really wanted the restful blue ones. Now nobody visits, they just pile into Darren's thread, instead.Maybe I need to get an elephant. Hmmm.
This elephant infestation is becoming rather worrisome. Hi Anna! I've brought you a lovely bacon scented candle as a thread warming gift.
Oops.
Perhaps a little too warm.
Just goes to show, throwing bacon grease on a curtain fire doesn't really put them out.
Smells nice though.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "This elephant infestation is becoming rather worrisome. Hi Anna! I've brought you a lovely bacon scented candle as a thread warming gift.
Oops.
Perhaps a little too warm.
Just goes to show, th..."
Thank you, how very kind! Fortunately one of my many elephants sucked up the bath water and wow - I now have lace effect, newly washed curtains.
Have you ever thought of starting up a side-line, Patti? Bacon scented candles shop, next door a bacon shop, then bread rolls (or butties), then fire extinguisher shop and then curtains!
I have a cunning plan to decrease the number of elephants in my room - see next post!
Lynda wrote: "Yeah, Patti completely trashed my place - and left me with polka dot curtains when I really wanted the restful blue ones. Now nobody visits, they just pile into Darren's thread, instead.Maybe I n..."
Hi Lynda, I have a surfeit of elephants now and I see you are in need of one. I have a very nice grey one, with big ears. He has packed his trunk and is ready to trundle along to you. You'll know when he arrives as he has also packed his trumpet. He is a very good gardener, I hope you have a big one or neighbours with frail fences.
That's more like it Anna... Newbie, corrupted ;~)
David wrote: "That's more like it Anna... Newbie, corrupted ;~)"Ha! Doesn't take long, does it? :)
Anna! What a kind offer. I'd prefer a female if you have one, please. One called Nellie would be nice. (Until the head of the herd starts calling ;))
Lynda wrote: "David wrote: "That's more like it Anna... Newbie, corrupted ;~)"Ha! Doesn't take long, does it? :)
Anna! What a kind offer. I'd prefer a female if you have one, please. One called Nellie would b..."
They've done a deal. I'm keeping the head of the herd and Nellie has now packed her trunk and is on her way. You may regret this decision, she used to be a circus elephant, and you will recognize her from the red frills she insists on wearing. If you or your neighbours have small children, be careful, she has a habit of scooping them and giving them rides to the shops. Could get expensive.
David wrote: "That's more like it Anna... Newbie, corrupted ;~)"I'd like to say that before I came here, I was a delightfully sane and sweet person.
This would not be true though, but if you are willing to take the blame for my doolally ways, you may. After all, what are friends for?
P.S. I have another stunning idea to pass on a few elephants. Anyone who buys my book (99p on a Kindle Countdown Deal this week) will get a free elephant.
Anna wrote: "P.S. I have another stunning idea to pass on a few elephants. Anyone who buys my book (99p on a Kindle Countdown Deal this week) will get a free elephant."
Dash it! I already have your book (Note to self find this book on TBR list & read it )
However I will let other people have the elephants as I already have one on my hall table & the rest of the house is full of pigs.
Gingerlily - Smiter of idiots. wrote: "What David is hinting at, is that Patti has this habit of setting the curtains on fire. There are many author threads that are still slightly singed around the edges. So it could be wise to just ge..."Thanks for the warning, Gingerlily. It enabled me to have an elephant on standby.
Jay-me (Janet) ~plum chutney is best~ wrote: "Anna wrote: "P.S. I have another stunning idea to pass on a few elephants. Anyone who buys my book (99p on a Kindle Countdown Deal this week) will get a free elephant."
Dash it! I already h..."
Pigs? A walking, snorting bacon storage unit?
I haven't got any pigs, or not anyone who will admit to it.
They could be the cheapo version. The ones that only cost a guinea?
Kath wrote: "They could be the cheapo version. The ones that only cost a guinea?"Gosh, yes, plum chutney has probably attracted a house full of the little furry cuties.
Guinea pig isn't a pun! I demand adjudication!
The mod sez that was a pun.Hmmmm
Bacadjudicator...
Naw. Too cumbersome.
And here we have a post without an elephant in it!This is an excerpt from Hide in Time - and you really can't expect me to squeeze an elephant into a time travel romance! But I have managed a unique piece of elephantalia for the sharp eyed.
Laura, born in the 18th century but now stuck in the 21st century, is remembering the time she first saw Matt, the man who has been helping her settle into modern day living.
"He’d looked at her – wet and sandy. She’d remember that look all her life, no matter how long she lived. He had eyes that listened; deep brown eyes which had encouraged her to ask, ‘Sir, would you kindly assist me. I was aboard the SS Kismet when it collided with a sandbank.” She’d hesitated before adding the stark consequence, “and sank.”
He had taken a step forwards and lifted her trunk. The tar had ruined his T-shirt but he never mentioned it. He’d asked where she was trying to go and she’d replied, “America.” He hadn’t laughed, though the little group of people gathered about were smirking. One of them, unasked, gave Matt directions to the hospital.
What would she have done without Matt? Another tear trickled down her face.
“Nearly there, Laura. Have you a plan?” asked Matt.
Plan? It consisted, so far, of arriving with Matt.
The past had intruded and overwhelmed her thoughts yet again."
This extract is taken from an early chapter before she returns to Regency times again.
Still on Kindle Countdown at 99p.
This is another extract from the time travel romance
Xandra, in the twenty-first century, is needing a place to hide from a gang of criminals, and has put her trust in Laura. She knows Laura has a plan, but she is not entirely sure what it is. She has just found out:
“Whoa, there,” barked the man with the whip which had been flailing perilously close to the scarlet-liveried man standing guard at the back. “Whoo, whoo.” He brought the horses to a halt and bellowed, “Get out of the way, woman. Are you weak in the mind!”
“Great flumpleducks, girl; what are you doing here?” A woman, wearing a long, grey skirt, brown shawl tied around her shoulders and a white mobcap, stepped down from the coach onto the track.
Instinctively, Xandra put her hand to her head and felt her own cap with the lacy scarf still tied around it. If she could have answered, she would have, but she wasn’t at all sure what she was doing here.
The horses restlessly pawed the ground and tossed their heads. “Get her out of the way. We’re already late,” called the driver.
“You mind your manners. You’re charging a king’s ransom to take us to Canterbury tonight, so you just…”
“What is it, Martha? What causes the delay?” A man in clerical garb alighted from the coach. To say he was amply proportioned would do his physique insufficient justice. He approached Xandra. “Are you in distress?”
Xandra looked down at her wet, sandy shoes and the hem of her dress which hung damp, heavy and close around her ankles.
“Flollops! Of course she’s in distress. Can’t you see she’s all wet and wobbly?”
Parson Emmanuel Raffles looked both annoyed and abashed. “Martha, you are to be my kitchen maid, not my mouthpiece.” He sighed and muttered, “God forbid.”
A quick quote from a UK reviewer of Hide in Time:"The story unfolded in an unexpected manner and was told in a way that had you rooting for the heroine. A thoroughly enjoyable read. I shall be looking for more books by the same author."
Go on, live dangerously, read to the end and decide which hero and which heroine you like best.
I've just been asked to dance for the first time. Do you remember that feeling? Who is he/she? Should I?That's just how I felt when Jaideep asked me for a blog interview. I took the plunge. He has some interesting questions and I kept him waiting for the answers (like all girls do). I didn't mean to, of course; it was nice of him to ask.
I often get to the end of a book and start wondering about the author.
Here's the questions and the answers:
http://pebbleinthestillwaters.blogspo...
Interesting - both the questions and the answers!
Do you remember your first dance, Kath?I do, I stood there like a wallflower with my two friends (as you do), in a skirt that was too long so I'd rolled the waist over several times. Oh groan.
Yes. I went to a convent school (explains a lot, eh?) and I had dance the man's part because I'm tall! In real life, I hated dancing. No wonder.
I went to an all girls' school too and I am also tall and had to take the man's part in the lessons.Every now and then I go hot and cold in a second when I remember being asked to start the dancing at the Christmas do of the first big company I worked for. This gorgeous Swiss... oh well, you get the picture, I'm sure, asked me and it was a waltz. We both collided when I also tried to dance his part!
He didn't ask me again.
For any authors who would like to be published in the more traditional manner (I wouldn't include Amazon contracts in this) I read an article in the newspaper today about Eimear McBride who had been rejected by publishers for almost a decade. She has just won the £30,000 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction with her first book which she began sending to publishers in 2004 and then endured many rejections.And for those of us who find it difficult to follow the rules, or wish to write something completely different, you might be encouraged by her experimental style with no commas or speech marks.
I'm still happy being an indie - less pressure.
I agree, Anna. I tried for a traditional publisher, but I do wonder if I could handle the pressure if I had got accepted.
For me, real life eats into the writing time. I can't imagine any publisher saying 'next year will do'.Yet the real life is where I draw my ideas from so it is important for more than one reason.
I'm not tempted to abandon commas and speech marks though; neither am I attracted to reading a book without them.
I'm with you on the commas, although I'm certain some of mine are misplaced :~/
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The plot for Hide in Time sort of dropped on me. My husband is musical and you know you mustn't let husbands out on dark nights alone, so I found myself in St Paul's Cathedral, London, for the Watch Night Service. The Dean, looking back over the past year and looking to the future, repeated the phrase 'past and future'. As we drove home (long drive) the plot of a time travel book formed.
Then I tapped away on my pc every spare minute and he (hubby) never once suspected what I was doing. Then suddenly - well four years later - Hide in Time, conceived in St Paul's, was born. So St Paul's has a pride of place spot in the book.
I'd never read a time travel book before (apart from the obvious H.G. Wells) so I'm getting used to people saying it's very different from the usual tt romances.
Now, as hubby would say, that's probably far too much information. But it's hard to be a mystery miss if you have to do your own publicity - anyone else find that?
I also have a teeny spot in Off the KUF, Volume 1: Short fiction from the Kindle Users Forum
and a short story in Off the KUF, Volume 2: Short fiction from the Kindle Users Forum
That's enough for one post, isn't it!