Our second group anthology-Submissions to Ignite by end of September, please. Showing 451-500 of 1,221

[A.L.]

Yeah stuff like this is fun. I just sent 2 poems and I have a short story I think is crap but someone might like it.

[Kath]

Hi Alex. Just caught up with your email - thanks for the poems!

Does Patti mean we're all a bit dippy?
Well, they can't touch you for it!

[Kath]

Alex, we all need a good crap form time to time!

Did I really say that?

[A.L.]

Lol well I posted it, use it or not. I wrote it on the train home from work last year but I tinkered it a bit since then. It will stay sat in dropbox all sad if no one looks at it anyway so may as well see if it can be used;)

[Kath]

I'll have another session on the book on Tuesday so I'll give it the once-over then. Thanks for joining in!

[Simon (Highwayman)]

I have just had another look at my submission. I have made a few changes so that some of the most obvious lies in my fairly dull and pointlessly short autobiography seem barely plausible.

[Kath]

You've got till the end of next month to elaborate in your inexactitudes Simon!

[Rosen]

Apologies if I'm repeating a question but I don't have time to check back through the archives (10 pages, eek!)

Ignite, do I need to enlist my own proofreader or will you be editing submissions?

I'm not talking about potentially submitting some scribbles in a notebook, but a few typos are likely to sneak in if I don't get Olivia involved.

[Kath]

I'll do it Rosen, unless you especially wish to have your own. I'm not bad and I'm free!

[Jim]

Ignite wrote: "I'll do it Rosen, unless you especially wish to have your own. I'm not bad and I'm free!"

Free but cherished :-)

[Kath]

Aw, thanks Jim!

[Rosen]

Ignite wrote: "I'll do it Rosen, unless you especially wish to have your own. I'm not bad and I'm free!"

That's fantastic. Thank you very much.

[Patti (baconater)]

I'm happy to lend a hand with proofing if you get swamped, Ignite.

Geoff is too. I've just volunteered him. :)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Ignite wrote: "I'll do it Rosen, unless you especially wish to have your own. I'm not bad and I'm free!"

Free but not easy?

[Geoff (G. Robbins) (merda constat variat altitudo)]

Any help I can give Ignite, just shout.

[Kath]

Thanks people. I'm proofing them as they trickle in so it's not too bad. However, another pair (or two) of eyes when it's all teed up and ready would be useful. (You still have to buy it though!)

[Kath]

Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "Ignite wrote: "I'll do it Rosen, unless you especially wish to have your own. I'm not bad and I'm free!"

Free but not easy?"

Who spragged on me? ;)

[Patti (baconater)]

Don't worry!!!

We'll buy it!

Sheesh

[Kath]

Sorry. I've been living in Yorkshire too long!

[Patti (baconater)]

See? Hull.

[Jim]

Ignite wrote: "Sorry. I've been living in Yorkshire too long!"

the full afternoon?

I'm allowed to say that being born in The County Palatine

[Kath]

I'm not in that fair city - I'm in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
I come from the red rose county though.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Red nose country?

[A.L.]

How does the payment work? I am assuming it goes towards maintaining the site yes?

[Kath]

Yes Alex, we charge the minimum for the book. It gives the authors exposure and a chance to reach different readers. The profit goes towards prizes - we have regular quizes with Amazon vouchers as prizes.

[A.L.]

Cool I thought as much. I should do the quizzes really:)

Author exposure is good:)

[Kath]

Last time I put each author's website or blog address after their submission. I shall do that again of course, but we now have many more authors involved. Amazon will only allow 10 in the submission which means those 10 will have the book on their Amazon page. I think I might have to ask Darren (who puts it onto KDP) to put all the author names into a hat and pick out 10.

[Simon (Highwayman)]

Or put none on. Can you do that?

[Kath]

I think you'd have to put an author. It nice to let some people have it on their home page. They could opt out of course!

[Simon (Highwayman)]

True. Should help sales too.

[A.L.]

True.

But I guess others can credit it on their blog or website- or indeed here

[Mark]

Ignite wrote: "Last time I put each author's website or blog address after their submission. I shall do that again of course, but we now have many more authors involved. Amazon will only allow 10 in the submiss..."
Authors can also message Amazon to get the book added to their page and credited. I've done it for an anthology in the past.

[Kath]

That's good news Mark. It would be good if everyone got credit for their work.

[Mark]

I'm ashamed to say, I can't remember what I've submitted for this book. Been through an odd period of mental health recently. I hope it wasn't arse. All good now though and beavering away.

[Kath]

Children of the Mountain Mark. Sound familiar? I'm sorry to hear you've had problems. I hope all's ok now (and there's a book to follow Flux?)

[Mark]

Ignite wrote: "Children of the Mountain Mark. Sound familiar? I'm sorry to hear you've had problems. I hope all's ok now (and there's a book to follow Flux?)"

Oh yes. I think I read that to the Kids around the campfire and they liked it, so that will do. I'm good thanks, just dont do well with modern society sometimes.
Next book is coming along nicely, completely different from Flux but unintentionally still explores the dual personality thingy. Is a trilogy which is little daunting and I'm struggling for writing time but hoping to have this book into something half readable by the end of the year.
Anyway, didn't mean to hijack the thread, sorry about that. Hope all is good with you.

[Kath]

Yes great thanks. You can't hijack a thread here-they're all random!

[D.M. Andrews (author)]

I'm so busy at present. I hope I can make this deadline, but it's going to be tough if it has to be exclusive rather than an excerpt, etc.

[A.L.]

Cool, putting a note on author's page would be good.
I know what you mean by no time. I am reviewing book 2 of my series and hoped to be done by end of August, then September. i am on Chapter 12 and have so far rewritten at least 2 chapters and as I am changing a little of the ending as well to tie in with something new for later in the series I can't see my September deadline that likely either. At least if I am self publishing I dont have an agent or publisher glaring at me.

I now need to fix the prologue to book 3 as well, but fortunately book 3 is at least partially written and I can alter easily enough. Lots of family issues meaning I have to commute once or twice a month 15 miles on the train/coach as I don't drive so all very stressful and busy.

Mark I hope you manage to get your book sorted out. It is always daunting writing somethuing that is going to be part of a series:)

[D.M. Andrews (author)]

I always found a long coach or train journey quite relaxing and a perfect time to read, edit and come up with story ideas. I once edited an entire novel on a train journey to and from Scotland :)

Yes, I'm also revising a book. Hopefully will get it done this week, but lots of other stuff next week what with the start of the school year etc.

[Jim]

D.M. Andrews (GoodReads Author) wrote: "I'm so busy at present. I hope I can make this deadline, but it's going to be tough if it has to be exclusive rather than an excerpt, etc."

For me that was part of the challenge. It gave the the freedom to write something totally different. Not only that but Ignite isn't accepting them by weight, so I did something short as well :-)

[A.L.]

Yes the shirt i submitted I wrote on the train home last year but I did end up editing quite a bit as it was written for a specific audience and never used so i am hoping it worked.
I read The two towers on a coach journey to scotland. All I can say is I am happy I have a kindle now::)

[D.M. Andrews (author)]

You submitted a shirt, written on a train? I'd imagine you can't fit too many words on a shirt. Did the buttons get in the way?

Most shirts are for specific audiences. I'm a 17" collar myself, although must admit it is usually t-shirts that have text on them.

The Two Towers is great. There's a shirt in that, too - though a it's a mithril one. I don't think it has any text on it, though evidently they did put writing on rings...

[Patti (baconater)]

Well really Darren.

It was a typo. No need to get all shirty about it. ;)

Teehee

[Kath]

Hello again everyone. Just catching up. Alex your shirt is great - just read it. It's sort of mythic. Yes Jim, not by weight. It's nice to have things that are of different lengths in a collection. Sometimes you have different amounts of time to give to reading.
GL - only just seen the comment about not being easy! I've been described as dowright difficult sometimes!

[D.M. Andrews (author)]

Typos can lead to deaths...


Let's eat grandma

[A.L.]

lol oh didnt notice that one obviously,. Tach me to sneak on whilst at work and have to keep closing the page.

I suppose it depends how small you write:)

[Tim]

I've never edited a shirt. Ironed a few though...

Taking my shirt to writer's grope tonight. Hopefully they'll like it, but they might suggest folding it differently, or getting rid of some of the creases. We'll see...

If it pauses muster I'll be sending it off :)

[A.L.]

Yes haha.

Writers grope? Sounds an amusing place.

[Jim]

Tim A wrote: "I've never edited a shirt. Ironed a few though...

Taking my shirt to writer's grope tonight. Hopefully they'll like it, but they might suggest folding it differently, or getting rid of some of the creases. We'll see......"

Well I've probably written on more shirts than I've ironed if it helps.
But it certainly sounds as if your writers grope give you hands-on experience