Our second group anthology-Submissions to Ignite by end of September, please. Showing 801-850 of 1,221

[Rosen]

I'm just final-drafting mine.

Is it all right if I have a special character in my heading? I want to call my story Grumpies™.

[Kath]

Hi David - I know there are still a couple to come. It's a very exciting job, getting to read them all as they come in.

And Darren - nice try, Buster!

[Kath]

Ah, Rosen - you were on a new page, nearly missed you!
If I can get it in, yes. If you send it and it will copy/paste, it's in. If I can't I'll get Darren H on the job.

[M.T.]

David wrote: "Some of us are still writing our contribution... that list is going to be longer!"

Phnark! You're not the only one... if I can contribute something else, I'm certainly going to.

Cheers

MTM

[Tim]

You got an excess of 't's in my name - I'm the cheap version, just one on each end (don't worry, everyone gets it wrong ;))

[Simon (Highwayman)]

This is beginning to get exciting. I think I might have to do a Web Page for it when it comes out.

[Kath]

Can't you tell I love T (Tea anyway) Sorry Tim, I'll nip in and change it straight away!

[Kath]

Changed it on the book, Tim.

[A.L.]

Cool seems fine to me:) Very excited:) I can stick a link on my facebook page so my pitiful number of friends know about it.

[Jonathan]

Please could I make a proposition?

This afternoon I made a trailer for my book and it is now on YouTube.
I had a thought that I could make a trailer for the Anthology if people think it's a good idea.
My own trailer is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV9nvy...
I'm not posting this as a plug but to demonstrate a trailer example.

I have several ideas and I envisage all the authors names flashing on and off or possibly rolling like film credits. Even though everyone can't be named as an official author, this might be a nice idea to get everyone's name on the trailer.
What do people think?

[Philip (sarah)]

The line up is so impressive! Can't wait!

[Elle]

™ - alt + 0153 on any computer

[Kath]

Jonathan - excellent idea. Any publicity we can give this book is good for all the authors.

[Jonathan]

Thanks, Ignite. Well, if others agree, I'll gladly make a trailer when we have the final list of names. It's also a good opportunity to illustrate/explain the wonderfully bizarre name to the anthology.

I managed to 'embed' my own trailer into my blog so I'm sure we could achieve the same with the Goodreads trailer if we add it to various places. I would definitely add it to my own blog.

[Kath]

Just watched the trailer - very dramatic!

Incidentally I'm currently reading An Abandoned Woman by Lexie Conyngham and the cook has just decided that one of the dishes for the ball at Letho will be a Salmagundi!

[Philip (sarah)]

*LIKE*!

[Philip]

I think I promised an article for this ages ago. If space allows, I may have something. I just have to put the finishing touches to it.

[Kath]

Ok thanks Phil - I'll PM you my email address.

[Kath]

Story from Rosen received today!

[Rosen]

Um... I probably shouldn't admit this but my 'story' isn't entirely fictional.

[Jim]

Rosen wrote: "Um... I probably shouldn't admit this but my 'story' isn't entirely fictional."

Well Ignite knows mine isn't either, so it isn't an automatic disqualification
However your seminal paper the coming of age rituals in Doncaster is probably not going to get published in this anthology.

[Rosen]

Jim wrote: "Rosen wrote: "However your seminal paper the coming of age rituals in Doncaster is probably not going to get published in this anthology.
."

Ha ha. If only.

[Patti (baconater)]

Rosen wrote: "Um... I probably shouldn't admit this but my 'story' isn't entirely fictional."

Oooooo

Can't wait to read it!

This is gonna be such a GREAT book!

[D.M. Andrews (author)]

I started writing something! I started writing something!

Probably be quite short - what's the min word count?

It's rather looking like science-fiction at the moment...

[Simon (Highwayman)]

Every word in my contribution is true. I may have taken a few liberties joining them together though.

[Jim]

D.M. Andrews (GoodReads Author) wrote: "I started writing something! I started writing something!

Probably be quite short - what's the min word count?

It's rather looking like science-fiction at the moment..."


mine's only 874 words if that's any help

[Jim]

Simon (Highwayman) wrote: "Every word in my contribution is true. I may have taken a few liberties joining them together though."

"every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'." :-)

(with apologies to the late Mary McCarthy)

[D.M. Andrews (author)]

Thanks, Jim. Mine's 1100 atm, but may stretch to 2000. I'm not very good at short stories :( It will probably end up reading like an excerpt from a larger work that doesn't exist ;)

[Patti (baconater)]

Hey Darren.

I got an email from amazon this morning recommending books cuz I liked Pied and Prodigious. Cool, eh?

[Kath]

No minimum word count. It's got be be long enough to make sense though. No fragments without a verb. Got to be a whole sentence!

[D.M. Andrews (author)]

Cool, Patti!

Yup, Ignite - will make sense (to me! ;) )

[Kath]

Oh Blimey. I'll have to concentrate then, will I?

[D.M. Andrews (author)]

It's quite different to what I've written before... ;)

[Kath]

Some have written very much in their usual vein, some have written something very different. It's really great!

[Andrew]

Mine is I think fairly consistent with the style of the short stories in my collection, but there are a few elements in it that are quite new for my writing.

[Kath]

Still awaiting David Wailing and DM Andrews - but otherwise it's all set up and sent to my kindle for a proofreading run-through.
Whooo - exciting!

[Simon (Highwayman)]

It must be making your kindle super heavy :)

[Kath]

I'm peddling like the blazes to charge it too!

[D.M. Andrews (author)]

Blimey, best get it done... I hope I never get signed up by an agent/publisher. I can't write to deadlines ;)

[Kath]

Don't worry - I'll slip you in - Fnar, fnar!

[D.M. Andrews (author)]

Do we need to provide a bio too? What's the format? Is it:

Title
by
Author name
Story
Short bio with one link?

[Kath]

Just title
by Thingie
Story
Link to blog/website if you have one.

[Kath]

Just remembered, Philip's titivating something too.

[Kath]

Anyone like to suggest a price?

[Patti (baconater)]

Same as JK's Rowlings latest.

[Kath]

You mean we don't want any readers?

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh.

There is that.

How about same as the last one, then?

[Kath]

77p? It's twice as long (as the actress said.....)

[D.M. Andrews (author)]

It should probably be the minimum if it's purpose is exposure for the contributors?

[Patti (baconater)]

Think I agree with Darren but we could perhaps do 99p?

What does everyone else think?