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Sarah wrote: "Trisha wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Morning Trisha, Why the sad face?"I am not feeling well"
Well get yourself tucked up in the warm, with whatever medicine will make it better and stay there. A duvet ..."
I will after I get my kids to school (it's about 6:30 in the morning here)
Just having a ham salad sandwich (minus the cucumber of course)
Hi all!I have a gammon steak sandwich, a slice of pizza and some cold new potatoes.
Don't you just love leftover days?!
I do love left overs, but this one is on a diet and that pizza would be syns to me :o(
Tony wrote: "Hi all!I have a gammon steak sandwich, a slice of pizza and some cold new potatoes.
Don't you just love leftover days?!"
well im having left over tuna salad and a cheese toastie. I'l have a read at your writing tonight when the kiddies are asleep
Hey Sharon are you going to hand in a short story to that new publing company? the one in struggling authors? I have a short story on my head, I'll put it down on paper soon, but will you be ok to have a looksie to my atrocious grammar...
Yes that is not a problem, it will have to be quick the deadline is coming up. And I was thinking of doing one as well.
Alexandra wrote: "Hope you feel better.I hope there is no horse in those sausages, seems to be everywhere else."
Ah definitely no horse, pure pork, these will be homemade - anyway horsemeat is dark meat, grainy tastes of nothing in particular and the tender meat is from older horses! And yes I have tried it knowing it was horse, and not hoodwinked by others who shall remain nameless for obvious reasons. Libel being the foremost that springs to mind!
Sharon wrote: "Yes I can see that - LOLDuvet days - I love them - having one tomorrow. Woohoo."
Are you praying for more snow so your duvet day gets extended?
Trisha wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Trisha wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Morning Trisha, Why the sad face?"I am not feeling well"
Well get yourself tucked up in the warm, with whatever medicine will make it better and stay t..."
2 in the Afternoon here and a grey, dry day.
Tony wrote: "Hi all!I have a gammon steak sandwich, a slice of pizza and some cold new potatoes.
Don't you just love leftover days?!"
Not really, I'm funny about left overs - stuff like sauces I freeze for another day, I hate eating the same stuff 2 days running. Stems from being forced to eat them when I was younger! Though sometimes I turn leftover chicken into chicken and mushroom sauce for pies or to eat with pasta!
Sharon wrote: "I do love left overs, but this one is on a diet and that pizza would be syns to me :o(";o( really mean diets, the concept of which must have been invented by a skinny sadist!
Sharon wrote: "Yes that is not a problem, it will have to be quick the deadline is coming up. And I was thinking of doing one as well."no worries, i work well under pressure
Eva wrote: "Tony wrote: "Hi all!I have a gammon steak sandwich, a slice of pizza and some cold new potatoes.
Don't you just love leftover days?!"
well im having left over tuna salad and a cheese toastie. I'l..."
I just finished my chicken tikka masala and rice - miam, miam - not too spicy unlike the last one I made from scratch - lol it was hotter than the beef madras. Heavy handed with the hot chilli powder, that's me!
I am still going through The Menorah Murders whilst waiting for Paul to get back to me. So I think I will give it a miss.
Almost finished with that, will get it to you this afternoon (loads of red marks) - Only joking, hardly any. ;o)
Sharon wrote: "Almost finished with that, will get it to you this afternoon (loads of red marks) - Only joking, hardly any. ;o)"I'm hoping you are talking about Sarah's writing and not my one....
Yes Sarah's writing, she knows I am only joking hee hee
Eva wrote: "Sharon wrote: "Almost finished with that, will get it to you this afternoon (loads of red marks) - Only joking, hardly any. ;o)"I'm hoping you are talking about Sarah's writing and not my one...."
Sharon wrote: "Almost finished with that, will get it to you this afternoon (loads of red marks) - Only joking, hardly any. ;o)"
Yep I know and I've probably already erased most of them whilst editing as I go!
Lol red lines make you think before you write the next time!
What do you guys think of the freebie thing? I am not sure what to think. I had a review that really helped after a freebie.
I think you are right perhaps i had better steer clear. Especially as I might give up not doing freebies.
A real dead person. I have never seen one for real I think that would freak me out.
I think you are right perhaps i had better steer clear. Especially as I might give up not doing freebies.
A real dead person. I have never seen one for real I think that would freak me out.
Tarian wrote: "What do you guys think of the freebie thing? I am not sure what to think. I had a review that really helped after a freebie.I think you are right perhaps i had better steer clear. Especially as I..."
They sound a group of weirdos to me, who doesn't like free?
Right now I am off to town to pick up the gates for the new house, Alain's belated Christmas/valentine's day pressie!
Sharon wrote: "Sarah you have mail."Yep have sorted it, thanks gates were calling! He that must be obeyed (in his dreams) wanted to see the gates before he agreed to them. All paid for he will fetch them tomorrow!
Has anyone ever used Amazons Createspace?
Me:) Why? Although I am a total noob with it:)
Alexandra wrote: "Me:) Why? Although I am a total noob with it:)"Hi Alexandra,
I was looking at using it but to tell you the truth I don't know if I quite understand what it does!
All I want is to give people the ability to buy paperback copies of my ebooks.
What do you use it for?
Tony wrote: "Alexandra wrote: "Me:) Why? Although I am a total noob with it:)"Hi Alexandra,
I was looking at using it but to tell you the truth I don't know if I quite understand what it does!
All I want is..."
With Createspace you have your paperbacks, and you also have the chance to also release it as a E book through Kindle. You get better commission with the Kindle than with the paperback, almost double in fact. If you need any help let me know, The Menorah Murders is now with the editors, so now I can get back to HOD until I get it back.
So do Createspace not just print and send on demand? So, if someone goes onto Amazon and wants to purchase my book in paperback, Createspace will send it out, charge the customer and pay me royalty? Or, would I buy a bulk of paperbacks from createspace and then send them direct to customers who select to purchase a paperback on Amazon.
Tony wrote: "So do Createspace not just print and send on demand? So, if someone goes onto Amazon and wants to purchase my book in paperback, Createspace will send it out, charge the customer and pay me royalty..."You can buy copies to sign at book signings or people can go online and buy their own copies, you get royalties on copies bought buy customers but I don't think you get royalties on bulk buying. You can also have extended distribution for your book through outside sources at a cost of 25$ per book.
So, if I don't buy bulk and just allow customers to purchase direct from Amazon, there is no charge at all to me?
Tony wrote: "So, if I don't buy bulk and just allow customers to purchase direct from Amazon, there is no charge at all to me?"No, it's free, I think the only criteria you have to pass is having purchased something from Amazon in the past in order to get this for free!
That's why I released Cally's Secret through them!
Great news!Unfortunately my short story is too short to qualify lol!
I'll try it with my next one.
Just out of curiosity, did you have a look at the two bits of writing I posted the links for earlier today?
Off to bed now, so speak tomorrow maybe.
Night all!
Tony wrote: "Great news!Unfortunately my short story is too short to qualify lol!
I'll try it with my next one.
Just out of curiosity, did you have a look at the two bits of writing I posted the links for e..."
No, not as yet I've been in and out all afternoon, gates have been the pre-occupation of the day here in Brittany! All done and dusted, Alain is going to fetch the gates tomorrow, it will be a couple of weeks before they are fixed lol not much point fixing the gates until the fencing at the front is up- a bit like shutting the stable door behind the horse that!
Sorry your story was too short to publish - I hope they don't have an upper limit too! My second book has gone off to the editors this evening and I know at the last count it was around the 118,000 word mark! And I have cut it several times in edit, but it still keeps coming back to the same figure.
I'm off to my bed too, I get a lie in tomorrow, no school!
Night all!
Hey Toni! I've read the prologue. I noticed that you repeat his name a few time in such a small paragraph, as well as this I found it a bit choppy to read, maybe too many comas? and this sentence confused me"Josh, confused and not a little scared; did I say that out loud?;"- Maybe I'm just being a bit blonde, was he thinking it? if so use cursive writing...
By the way, so I don't sound so negative, i like the job you've done showing instead of telling, makes it so much easier to imagine. By the way, is the man-monster Hulk?
By the way, I can't read the short story, call me a wimp if you want but I can't read horror stories, Cujo scarred me for life.
Eva wrote: "By the way, I can't read the short story, call me a wimp if you want but I can't read horror stories, Cujo scarred me for life."Wimp! Lol kidding but I read Cujo when I was pregnant with Jo - made me wary of St Bernards who drool and slobber a lot but nothing more. I'll go take a look at Tony's short story in a mo, I've just come back from the house, yay we have electricity put out the flags and bring on the marching band! No more groping around by candle light or having to start up the generator in order to see what we're doing! All we now is the plumber and the fosse and we will be in business. I so want to be installed for my birthday on the 20th April!
Hi Tony I just looked at your idea, and like Eva I noticed a few things, mainly contradicting descriptives and order of words. The idea's interesting but I think you need to work on it as a synopsis not as an opening page. Work out the bones of the story how you see them, don't worry as your story evolves so can your synopsis, it's not written in stone it can be changed to suit new ideas.Lol I haven't written a synopsis yet that hasn't undergone several changes before I get to the end of the story! I'll read the story now and take into account is not edited too.
Sarah wrote: "Eva wrote: "By the way, I can't read the short story, call me a wimp if you want but I can't read horror stories, Cujo scarred me for life."Wimp! Lol kidding but I read Cujo when I was pregnant w..."
your birthday's the 20th, my one is the 25th. go taurus!
Eva wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Eva wrote: "By the way, I can't read the short story, call me a wimp if you want but I can't read horror stories, Cujo scarred me for life."Wimp! Lol kidding but I read Cujo when I ..."
Ah, no I'm Aries the ram on the cusp, the final day, sometimes I am obliged to read both the horoscopes of Taurus and Aries. Which means I'm twice as stubborn! Jo's birthday is the 29th, my grandson's birthday is the 27th and Alain's mother's is the 28th!
Thanks for the feedback Sarah and Eve.
Tony wrote: "Thanks for the feedback Sarah and Eve."That's okay I sent you a message too, check your GR inbox on your profile page. Are you on Twitter and Facbook too? If so send me the links and I'll like and follow.
Morning trisha are you feeling better today?
Not really but still have things I need to do
Trisha wrote: "Not really but still have things I need to do"It's horrible when you have stuff to do and don't feel up to the task, things seem to take twice as long to do.
Will do Sarah. I can't check with my iPhone app so will look tonight.Morning!
Tony wrote: "Will do Sarah. I can't check with my iPhone app so will look tonight.Morning!"
Okay, not a problem I have opened HOD and am reading through the last 2 pages I wrote before picking up the stictches and carrying on knitting the current chapter. I'm winding down my characters whilst hiking up the suspense for a hum dinger of an ending.
Which even I am not sure of as yet, I'll know which way to go as I get nearer. Hopefully!
Sarah wrote: "Trisha wrote: "Not really but still have things I need to do"It's horrible when you have stuff to do and don't feel up to the task, things seem to take twice as long to do."
Yea it does
Ok so the same little boy has asked me two days in a row if I'm pregnant. Time to revamp the diet and pull out the work clothes...
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I hope there is no horse in those sausages, seems to be everywhere else.