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Cambria
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Aug 04, 2011 05:48AM
You definitly all do that around here!! LOL
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The writing is coming along quite well actually. I am just about to post up some exciting news on that front. I have just been offered and signed my very first Publishing Contract. My book will hopelfully be released next year!!!!!!!
YAY Go you! Nice work, mate! With whom? The grand JS?JAC
Actually, it isn't JournalStone. Its a small publishing house in Louisville, KY called Otherworld Publications. I sent my ms to them last winter and they got hold of me like 2 weeks ago to offer a contract. And Thank You.
Woooooooooooooo! You're gonna be published, you're gonna be published! You do know when you're rich and famous we're still gonna be spamming you with toilet snake jokes, right?
JAC
LOL!! Girl, i invented that toilet snake joke and i will never consider any messages from you all as spam! LOLThanks!!
"Buy ON DARK SHORES book 36, where Nereia and Mary go shopping and buy some cucumbers, lightbulbs, ham, jam, lamb, spam, rum, some plums, chewing gum... and Copeland is accidentally run over by a tram. While playing a drum. For some nuns."No actually that's spam Seuss-style. Green eggs and Spam!
But that's only because I'm not sure if Cialis is rude. But I could offer to sell you a luxury fake Rolex.
LOL!!!! Sold on the rolodex! Do you have any designer handbags JA, I love those!!And I think you just wrote out the new synopsis for your book!! LMAO
Damn, all those spoilers, what was I thinking?!heheheh
Actually I am sulking as I have just worked out that what's wrong with book 2 is....book2! So have put it to one side as I might need to jumpt to book 3 instead. What I haven't worked out yet is whether after book 3 I'll go back and stick book 2 in then or whether it's going on the "offcuts" pile - all 50k words of it....ooooyah!
But actually at least I know what the problem is now so can get on with it.
So - Book 3 - Nereia goes to down and buys handbags from Gutcci, Pravda, Eva St Laurent, and...[already has scraped barrel of fashion-based knowledge]. Damn, that's not gonna work. It might have to be the Rollllex watch after all, or maybe a Carter one.
(Something tell you I'm most comfy in Goth clothes or jeans? Fashion is something of which I am blissfully ignorant, something of a downer when making fashion-jokes!)
JAC
LOL JA! Yeah, i don't think Nereia much cares about handbags either.Are you being serious that you don't like any of book 2? that cannot be!
J.A. wrote: "Oooh look! My interview's up - go have a nosey if you're interested...http://www.forbiddenpassionsinterview...
JAC"
Just read it, J.A. My high respect for you just went ballistic -- or, in the vernacular, "Awesome!"
Goodness! Thank you Phil!!Cambria, it's actually very simple; I wrote it in the wrong order! Chronological you see - all the stuff that's happening elsewhere during Bk 1.
It's a fun book but here's the thing: do you want to know what happened next with Nereia or do you want to be thrown into a new place with new characters and follow the Mother down from the mountains? As a separate book that's fine but if I'm omnibussing with bk1 for the paperback it'll be just TOO many characters and too much complexity, and the feedback is that it's plenty complex enough.
Having slept on it, I think I need to swap books 2&3: finish this chunk with Nereia and leave her at a sensible stopping place in the narrative arc, and then depending on how that works, either scrap book 2 and continue from end of bk 3, or go back to book 2, explain the Mother's journey down from the mountains and take her to wherever she need to be at the time.
Will be a downer if I need to scrap it all, but then there is at least a couple of thousand words that neeed to go into the offcuts and samples file!
But it's all good really, and I feel much the better for having worked out what was getting in the way. All I have to do now is go back to bk 3, find a way to join it up, and then start on the editing all over again - and with a month less to get it all finished now!
Really doesn't seem likely it'll be done in time for Chrimbo now!
:oS
JAC
In case anyone's interested, I did an interview on Dale's blog here:http://dalesplace-dale.blogspot.com/2...
JAC
Great JA!!!! Thanks! I am interested!
People! I have a special Halloween blog that should have gone up on Friday but the keyboard on my laptop died. Lee Sinclair has written a special Halloween post and I'd love it to get some attention - if anyone would like to come over and comment - or to tweet / share / FB it - I'd be deeply grateful!
After all that effort, to have it go to waste because my keyboard wasn't working would be a cryinh shame....pretty please??
Thanks guys - you are stars as always....
Links are:
http://jaclement.wordpress.com/2011/1...
or
http://wp.me/p1fCWz-52 for Twitter
(And Cambria's got an interview going up in a couple of weeks, so watch this space....)
JAC
Thanks Vered - Lee's so funny, and it did make me laugh so getting her a few hits or comments would be nice!JAC
Left a comment and shared to FB (all 3 of my pages) lol.Great post!!!
JA- looking forward to the interview!
New blog up - interview with MTM of "Few Are Chosen" fame! Also with a picture of the infamous Ely Marrow!!!
JAC
Hey JAC, are you looking to feature other ppls blogs/websites on ur page? if so let me know, im looking to feature other ppls on my homepage
Justin, at the moment I'm booked through till after New Year but hopefully my second book will be out in Jan, so remind me in Jan and I'll take you up on that, deffo!JAC
Justin wrote: "Hey JAC, are you looking to feature other ppls blogs/websites on ur page? if so let me know, im looking to feature other ppls on my homepage"
My blog is http://www.janieraeldridge.blogspot.com. i would like a feature. :)
You can sign up on my blog to be featured as well.
My blog is http://www.janieraeldridge.blogspot.com. i would like a feature. :)
You can sign up on my blog to be featured as well.
Thanks Janiera - catch me after New Year and we'll sort it! You might have to remind me though, I have 3-second memory at the moment...JAC
Hey guys - want to see my best picture of a turkey on a sledge?Link is here....
http://boomersandbooks.wordpress.com/...
guestpost you see....
JAC
Awesome JA! Glad to see you are keeping busy!!
Alas, when am I not, Cambria?!Was nice to down tools for Christmas thhough....
JAC
it was nice to have a break over Christmas!!! I enjoyed mine as well. ;)
:-) now to get back to writing and editing! lol.
Yeah, I mean really - enough of this rest and relaxation stuff. *snaps whip in background*Happy New Year!
heheheh Yes sah!And indeed likewise m'dears!
JAC
Blogpost on The Indie View - anyone interested, do nip across and say hello!http://www.theindieview.com/2012/01/0...
Thanks guys...
JAC
Hey all:This week I went a bit more general than is my wont and posted a blog on the subject of everyday heroes - those people who work hard and long to make our lives that little bit easier. They are there for us all the time but often go unnoticed and unthanked - I'd like to use this week's blog to give them a shout-out, so if you know someone like this, please add them to the list.
Is it the grandparent who looks after your kids while you're at work? The parent who keeps you fed and in clean clothes every day? The cheery guy in the coffee shop who banters you into a good mood to start work every morning?
Doesn't matter who or what, we want to know about them!
Please check out the blog and add your shout-outs... link is
http://jaclement.wordpress.com/2012/0...
Thanks guys!
JAC
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