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Our second group anthology-Submissions to Ignite by end of September, please.
Wee pots! Have I missed this? When's the deadline? Sorry, what with the jubilee and a double birthday on 12th I've been too busy disappearing up my own arse to come here. I do have some poems and a short story about Christmas you could use... am I too late?Oh and my MC likes squid (phnark). So do I. I shouldn't because they are very smart and it's far closer to cannibalism (on the intellect front) than eating a cow or a horse... poor buggers just aren't as cute. Sorry I'm rambling I'll shut up now.
Cheers
MTM
Lol!I'm just about to make a dolphin sarnie.... JOKING!!!
You've not come even close to missing the deadline, Mary. Get in touch with our Ingite. She'll sort you out.
Patti (Stir Crazy) wrote: "Lol!I'm just about to make a dolphin sarnie.... JOKING!!!
You've not come even close to missing the deadline, Mary. Get in touch with our Ingite. She'll sort you out."
Though might have better luck with Ignite.
September was the deadline I think - or was that when it's being published? I'll have to find some time!
September is the deadline - I hope to have it published by the end of October. Darren Humphries is my right hand man and general factotum (he does all the hard stuff!) and is usually immured in the NoMoWriMo or whetever the thing's called, in November.I've just had a second lovely poem from Harry - something from you would be brilliant, MTM.
Though might have better luck with Ignite.At least I didn't call her Ingrate as I did some months back.
Phnark! Patti!Ignite, thanks. I have a poem or two and a story I wrote for a blog about Santa. By September I might even have written something new!
Cheers
MTM
Patti (Stir Crazy) wrote: "Lol!I'm just about to make a dolphin sarnie.... JOKING!!!
I hope Tui doesn't see that, Patti!
Getting back to the cover (as i have a day off and nothing to do!!) I like the idea of using the Oak tree and the foliage being used as Sarah suggested with her cornucopia. But instead of using words from the genre, each image (which may include all the funny ones aswell) could represent each Author and their name can be somehow included in the image (for example if Gingerlily had the squid I could put her name along the tail of the squid, subtley)aaah.....too many ideas goin round in me head now!
That all depends on who the authors are and whether you are familiar with their work. I think salad ingredients formed into the shape of an oak tree might work?
Ignite wrote: "That all depends on who the authors are and whether you are familiar with their work. I think salad ingredients formed into the shape of an oak tree might work?"Yep, that is what i am working on at the mo actually (great minds!) I have the tree sketched out. Gonna scan in and digitalise now and then see what I can do with it from there.
I will do a little sketch of what I mean with the names of the author in the iNgredients as I don't think it will matter if we know their work.....
If you can get a pint of beer as a salad ingredient, I'd totally support that idea!
You know I might bug you Em after this.I like to bug people who can draw trees since I'm working on my back tattoo design.
/complete off topic.
Did someone mention beer?
Andrew wrote: "If you can get a pint of beer as a salad ingredient, I'd totally support that idea!"That's salad dressing, innit?
Really? I must start eating more salad in that case!
No probs Elle, we'll chat about that soon xxOk, so this is very rough and quickly drawn out but i hop you get what i mean. so lots of different ingredients to our Goodreads Salmagundi Salad (we can include our funnies or, as Patti suggested i do one funny and one real!) making up the foliage of the oak tree that i have drawn already
Don't ask me why I chose an egg but it seemed like the quickest and easiest thing to draw!!
http://www.goodreads.com/photo/group/...
such a cool egg.random? yes. i'm not sure how you can have an uncool egg but yes, i like it very much :P
Nice one. I shall call him Eggie after this! Maybe not. He might not talk to me again!
Oooo! Do brownies or fluffy pillows have a place in salad though.....
Well, that is kinda why we need to decide if I am going random and funny with the fluffy pillows, chocolate fountains and squid or sensible with the salad theme!! Or a mix of both (a hodgepodge if you will!!)Also do we need something along the lines of 'A Goodreads Anthology' (wording to be agreed) as just the title may be a bit random, kind of needs something to show what it actually is!
Elle, I have sent you a BBM with my start at the tree (is a piccie of my computer screen so not the best quality but you get the drift!!)
Elle, look at Katie Stewart's covers. She has an AMAZING tree on one of them.She's also a really nice person who writes great books. :)
You talking about the celtic looking one?I want something a lot different although that one is cool.
I still can't find my phone.
Jeez. Someone ring Elle, will you?What sort of tree then?
Proposed tree for the cover!http://www.goodreads.com/photo/group/...
Elle, tell them where you found your phone......talk about random!!
If Cornelius Harker is a egg Can I be a gherkin? Not that I've sent my stuff in yet but I'm going to. So far all I have is a poem about scotch eggs. Not very fantasy. Oh well.cheers
MTM
I thought you were a Marrow MTM... or whatever that large vegetable on your facebook profile is.
And the tree I want is a cross between a comic type tree and a tree of life. It's just finding the right balance between detail and simplicity.I'm find it so hard to put my thoughts into actual words though.
Louise-Lesley (Elle) wrote: "... in my lunch box..."Your lunch? Some crumbs?
AHH!!! Your phone!
Louise-Lesley (Elle) wrote: "... in my lunch box..."Elle that is TOTALLY weird!!! lol!
Gingerlily (or Cyberlily..) wrote: "I thought you were a Marrow MTM... or whatever that large vegetable on your facebook profile is."Ah yes... it is a marrow. I probably should be a marrow then.
Hmm....
Are you very marrow-ninded?
Okay in my defence people - I had it in work in a drawer and it's a lunch box I bring snacks in and other little Tupperware containers so I was putting my grape box from my drawer into it so I reckon I've lifted the phone thinking I'll put it in my bag to take home but I've just chucked it into the box as well lol
Love the tree. My Ma used to find her purse in the pantry or in kitchen cupboards. Wherever she was when she unpacked the shopping, the purse got plonked there. In the fridge once!
At least yours did it on purpose. When my Gran died we found purses in the freezer with bank notes pulled out of production several years back!
Love the tree, Emz!!!I'd love to find a full purse or two in my freezer...
Patti (Stir Crazy) wrote: "Love the tree, Emz!!!I'd love to find a full purse or two in my freezer..."
Thanks all. I have laid the egg over the top of it on my computer and once i have some more ingredients i tnink it could look quite cool.
Ignite, at some point (and there is no rush coz i can do the whole thing with out it and add at the end) would you mind sending me a list of the contributors please. Ta muchly x
I can tell you who's in so far but people keep popping up!
By the way, don't forget that the cover only shows up as a thumbnail so too much detail won't show.
Ignite wrote: "By the way, don't forget that the cover only shows up as a thumbnail so too much detail won't show."Ignite wrote: "I can tell you who's in so far but people keep popping up!"
There is no rush at all for the names. I want to get he layout etc sorted before adding any of that detail
hmmm... yep thumbnail. May be just the ingredients is needed then and not necessarily the Authors names (which were gonna be subtle anyway). Just having a load of ingredients (and looking at various recipes for a Salmagundi, pretty much any fruit, veg and salad can go in!!)as the foliage could look quite effective.
I will have a play. we may not decide to go for this idea at all!
Emma (Emz) wrote: "Or did you just want to keep it simplehttp://www.goodreads.com/photo/group/..."
I don't know! I like all of the ideas!!!
Emma (Emz) wrote: "Or did you just want to keep it simplehttp://www.goodreads.com/photo/group/..."
I really, really, really like it just like that! Maybe play with the colours a bit but wow that looks great!
I love the eyes in the tree. :)
Patti (Stir Crazy) wrote: "Emma (Emz) wrote: "Or did you just want to keep it simplehttp://www.goodreads.com/photo/group/..."
I really, really, really like it just like that! Maybe pl..."
As soon as I had finished I felt the same!! Yep, colours can be played with, no probs. also I missed off the Amazon in our group name so have added that now too!
What would it look like if the blue in the sky was the same blue used for the gallimaufry? Then they'd look like sisters, maybe?Dunno about the greens either. Do they sort of clash?
Maybe it's just my iPad.
they don't clash so much as not really go together in a nice way, if that makes sense.they don't compliment each other i suppose
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