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Why not introduce yourself here - August 2012
Ok... introducing me, aka Joe Cawley, author of the Kindle bestseller More Ketchup Than Salsa - Confessions of a Tenerife Barman.Enough promo... I live in the hills of Tenerife with my family and other retrobates. I pace by night, write by day and generally look like someone who doesn't sleep and drinks way too much caffeine (it's not pretty).
Currently working on the follow-up to the aforementioned, and also writing a clutch of travel features. Forgot to mention I'm a travel writer too (Times, Guardian, Telegraph, NY Post blah, blah, blah).
Anyway. Hello. And goodbye. For now.
Hi Joe!Simon, I really want to answer your thread title with something snarky. It's really asking for it.
Hi Joe!Welcome to the group, I'm DeeDee.
Hi Joe fancy seeing you here!Welcome to the group.
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Hi Joe and welcome. Are you going to start a Meet the Author thread? It's a much better way of telling us about your book, as this thread soon gets full and archived.Are you that old that you have to have retrobates? Is that a love of the 1970's?
Louise-Lesley (Elle) wrote: "Hi Joe!Simon, I really want to answer your thread title with something snarky. It's really asking for it."
I think you should!
Joe wrote: "Ok... introducing me, aka Joe Cawley, author of the Kindle bestseller More Ketchup Than Salsa - Confessions of a Tenerife Barman.Enough promo... I live in the hills of Tenerife with my family and ..."
Hiya Joe!
Hope that wasn't just fleeting visit! Come back soon. Bring booze.
Hi Joe and welcome!
I like the sound of your book - I enjoy travel books!
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I like the sound of your book - I enjoy travel books!
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lol guess what book i just sampled on Amazon lol
Hi. My name is Meg. It's nice to be here. I'm a writer. I publish short stories and flash fiction for literary journals. I also blog original fiction and memoir pieces. If you like reading material from your Kindle, my stories are available in this format for a minimal monthly fee. ($.99 in the U.S. The blog is listed on Amazon.co.UK.) It is called "black shatter stories and fictions" and is penned under my pseudonym Gry Corvin.
I hope to one day have a collection published but for now this arrangement has allowed me to publish and be a mother and dog-owner and daughter and sister. I live in Orlando Florida where a literary community is thriving and growing. And oh yes, it is very hot here right now. Somewhere someone mentioned wine. I will say quite simply: Yes, I like wine. And Pinot Grigio, especially during these warm Florida summers.
I'm a bit of an anglophile, have visited the UK a number of times, one of these visits being my honeymoon. I watch as many British movies and sitcoms as Netflix instant viewing provides.
Thank you for having me and for reading. Wishing you well during the dog days of summer.
I hope to one day have a collection published but for now this arrangement has allowed me to publish and be a mother and dog-owner and daughter and sister. I live in Orlando Florida where a literary community is thriving and growing. And oh yes, it is very hot here right now. Somewhere someone mentioned wine. I will say quite simply: Yes, I like wine. And Pinot Grigio, especially during these warm Florida summers.
I'm a bit of an anglophile, have visited the UK a number of times, one of these visits being my honeymoon. I watch as many British movies and sitcoms as Netflix instant viewing provides.
Thank you for having me and for reading. Wishing you well during the dog days of summer.
Welcome to the group, Meg! We love chatting with authors here so feel free to start an author thread and plug to your hearts content!
Look forward to getting to know you better - the morning thread is where most of us hang out for just general chat, so you are welcome to join in.
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Look forward to getting to know you better - the morning thread is where most of us hang out for just general chat, so you are welcome to join in.
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Hi Meg. As Karen pointed out, we'd love to hear more about your work. The problem with this area is that it gets swamped and jettisoned pretty quickly.Welcome to our little world.
Hi Meg... and thanks for all the 'hello's'.Patti - I have a bottle. Feel free to join me for a wee Jack Daniels on ice.
Geoff - yse, have plenty of retrobates. Tried to get them surgically removed but they just won't budge.
Thank you for the warm welcomes. Wow! You are a friendly group. It is nice here. The next couple of weeks are going to be busy for me as I'm closing on a house here, the first I've owned. I'm also getting my kid back into school and starting a job, albeit part-time, teaching English as a second language. I am curious to know what you're reading and will check out other threads for this. I've been dipping into a British horror journal called Black Static published by The Third Alternative which also publishes science fiction and crime. I haven't had my books with me for a year. They're in storage, so I've been making more Kindle purchases and reading journals. Have a great morning everybody. I'm going to grab my coffee and take my dog outside. If you check my blog out on Amazon, you'll see some pictures of me with my dog and some friends too. The blog is now listed at Goodreads and can be found on my profile page. Have a great day.
Hi Meg and Joe, welcome to the group!
Hello! I'm Ray Daley, author of 40+ titles freely available on Smashwords & Feedbooks and also of Tesla's Grave http://www.amazon.co.uk/Teslas-Grave-... available for very cheap on Amazon. I mostly write SF, some horror, as well as a few other genres releasing at least 1 new title every month (trying to stick to a New Years Resolution.All my titles are available for the Kindle as I am a K3 owner myself.
Hi Meg and Ray welcome to the group, we have lots of lovely authors and always enjoy meeting new ones. I will go and have a look at your books.
Hi Ray and Meg! Welcome to the group :-)
Hi Ray, have you set up an authors thread?
Oh good one Joe! I'll help with that bottle of JD after breakfast. Can't start on the booze TOO early. ;)Welcome Meg and Raymond. Will be lovely getting to know you better.
As Karen said, the Morning! Thread is our chatty thread where we talk about absolutely everything. Please do join us there or start your own thread on any topic you like.
We're a very active and chatty bunch.
Because of the time difference I'm going to have to try to remember when your morning is! Maybe I'll be up for it.
Ok. I've just figured it out. Patti, are you up at 3:30 a.m.?! Not to bust you or anything. I've logged in those kind of hours. Maybe my calculation is off. If I'm still up at, say, 2:00 a.m. I'll check in again! (This is not unheard of in my house in the summertime. I do have a teen.)
Lol Meg! Teenagers! I'm in Baku, which is four hours ahead of the UK. Just coming up to 8am here.
Oh ha! Well, that makes me feel better for you. Nothing is worse than being awake at 3:30 a.m. although I've pulled it off a few times to pack for trips and write papers for grad school. So I am glad you may now be reading this over breakfast in some sunny place perhaps. It is 11 p.m. here and my son is playing his Batman video game. School resumes in a week and a half though I have to admit I enjoy his presence. He's thirteen and not too old to sit on the same couch with mom on occasion. Have a great day!
Hello Ray :o)I like that you added "on occasion" there Meg, makes me think he still loves his mummy but is probably too "cool" to admit it ;o)
Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Hello Ray :o)I like that you added "on occasion" there Meg, makes me think he still loves his mummy but is probably too "cool" to admit it ;o)"
My son is an adult now and occasionally we will still sit on the sofa together at his place...but we generally end up watching Snatch or some other action film with a beer now late at night or early morning instead of the coke and cartoons when he was little lol.
Hi Meg and Ray - nice to meet you. Incidentally Meg, it doesn't have to be morning to use the 'Morning' thread. We should change it to the Anytime thread but we've just got used to it!
It's rather become the the Allthetime thread, hasn't it?Or we could rename it Waffle...
I don't know... Going in there first thing and saying good morning to everyone is very civilised; very... British ;)
Oh my son's "cool" alright these days! It does make a difference, though, I can tell, when I can just sit beside him and watch what he's doing and ask questions. It always amazes me that kids need their parents at whatever age, it's just the need changes of course. Very interesting about watching TV and drinking beer together Vanessa! Maybe someday!
Ok, all the time talk then! It is almost noon here. I have done a ton of paperwork to buy my very first house. (It's a town house, actually.) I'm hoping it will all come through but mortgage rates are very buyer friendly at the moment and I want to take advantage!
I'll check in later to the anytime chat.
Meg
Ok, all the time talk then! It is almost noon here. I have done a ton of paperwork to buy my very first house. (It's a town house, actually.) I'm hoping it will all come through but mortgage rates are very buyer friendly at the moment and I want to take advantage!
I'll check in later to the anytime chat.
Meg
Tim A wrote: "I don't know... Going in there first thing and saying good morning to everyone is very civilised; very... British ;)"
Yes, I like the morning greeting at 10:30 p.m. my time. I can wake up the next day having already been greeted to face the day in a happier manner because of it.
Yes, I like the morning greeting at 10:30 p.m. my time. I can wake up the next day having already been greeted to face the day in a happier manner because of it.
Vanessa wrote: "Hi Ray, have you set up an authors thread?"No, there's so many folders in this group I couldn't see where to do it.
Oh best of luck with the house buying, Meg!Owning your place is such a great feeling! What city are you hoping to buy in?
Raymond wrote: "Vanessa wrote: "Hi Ray, have you set up an authors thread?"No, there's so many folders in this group I couldn't see where to do it."
Just scroll down the main page and it's about half way down - Meet Our Authors, it's called.
Patti (Free Bird) wrote: "Oh best of luck with the house buying, Meg!
Owning your place is such a great feeling! What city are you hoping to buy in?"
I will be buying in a suburb in Orlando. My ex husband and I share custody or our child so I cannot go too far away, but Orlando is a good place for me. I have friends and family who live here and Orlando is plush and tropical, though hot. I've been here on and off since middle school so other places don't quite feel like home. The best part about my new place is that I can finally have my books with me. They will have their own room. My son will have his own room although he has his own room now, which is nice. And I will have a big kitchen and a garage. (When there are events close to my current apartment, or just partiers come to visit the restaurants and bars I often do not have a place to park nearby.) I'm very excited.
Owning your place is such a great feeling! What city are you hoping to buy in?"
I will be buying in a suburb in Orlando. My ex husband and I share custody or our child so I cannot go too far away, but Orlando is a good place for me. I have friends and family who live here and Orlando is plush and tropical, though hot. I've been here on and off since middle school so other places don't quite feel like home. The best part about my new place is that I can finally have my books with me. They will have their own room. My son will have his own room although he has his own room now, which is nice. And I will have a big kitchen and a garage. (When there are events close to my current apartment, or just partiers come to visit the restaurants and bars I often do not have a place to park nearby.) I'm very excited.
Hi allI'm struggling to find my way around GR but here i am!
I write Flash Fiction, Short Stories and Haikus and have just started to blog. Hopefully I'll be able to find my way back here!
Hi Helena. If you click 'home' at the top of the page it will show all the groups you have joined. We're the one with the Oak Tree! Do come back - we love a chat!
Ha Ha - i managed it! Thanks for the welcome.
Meg wrote: "Patti (Free Bird) wrote: "Oh best of luck with the house buying, Meg!Owning your place is such a great feeling! What city are you hoping to buy in?"
I will be buying in a suburb in Orlando. My e..."
Oh! Orlando, eh?
You know the way we are such great friends Meg....
Hi Meg and Ray, welcome to the most welcoming place one the web - or, at least, Goodreads.
Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Meg wrote: "Patti (Free Bird) wrote: "Oh best of luck with the house buying, Meg!Owning your place is such a great feeling! What city are you hoping to buy in?"
I will be buying in a suburb in O..."
Lol! That is near Disney huh Jud? :-)
Welcome Helena :-)
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