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- Fri August 27th, 2010, 12:20 pm
- Forum: Author Announcements
- Topic: Free Short Story
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2617
- Fri August 20th, 2010, 11:15 am
- Forum: Historical Fantasy
- Topic: Pyridain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4313
[quote=""parthianbow""]How funny! The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and the sequel The Moon of Gomrath were two of my all time favourites, as were the Susan Cooper books. Incidentally, Jules, did you know that the 2nd book, The Dark is Rising, was made in to a film about 1 or 2 years ago? Not seen it, b...
- Fri August 20th, 2010, 8:28 am
- Forum: Historical Fantasy
- Topic: Pyridain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4313
I adored these books and well remember weeping copiously at the end of High King. I also devoured Susan Cooper's "Dark is Rising" series and Alan Garner's books as well. Those three series triggered off my love of Celtic fantasy, actually, when I was a child, then later I moved on to Tolkien and Mis...
- Thu August 19th, 2010, 9:47 am
- Forum: Author Announcements
- Topic: The Road to Rome becomes a bestseller!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1752
- Tue July 13th, 2010, 11:44 am
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: Interesting thoughts about reader reviews
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2371
[quote=""Margaret""]the same book can get star ratings that are all over the place, depending on whether it's the sort of thing a particular reader enjoys[/quote] And that is what makes reviews difficult for authors to get their heads around. As Anna said, your book might not be someone's thing no m...
- Mon July 12th, 2010, 1:23 pm
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: Interesting thoughts about reader reviews
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2371
I don't really understand this feeding frenzy of authors madly jumping on every review, getting into public spats and engaging in underhand behavior. Call me old-fashioned - and this has possibly been to my detriment - but I come from the "sink or swim" school of thought and am basically, throw it o...
- Mon July 12th, 2010, 11:34 am
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: Interesting thoughts about reader reviews
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2371
Agree with everyone here. Reviews are surely to serve readers' needs, not authors. I don't understand why authors publicly get themselves into such a state over them. Yes, they HURT. Yes, it is awful. But if you put your work out there, and especially if someone has actually paid you to put it out t...
- Mon May 10th, 2010, 10:53 am
- Forum: The Craft of Writing
- Topic: Editing
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1784
This is so timely Michelle, because I am entering my last week of edits before they are finally, finally due. Due to various reasons (compassionate "leave" to Australia, moving to the US, house renovations to let us move to US) this book has been written over 18 months. I handed it in with a big flo...
- Wed April 14th, 2010, 5:50 pm
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: every National Geographic article in a DVD set
- Replies: 3
- Views: 502
every National Geographic article in a DVD set
Hi all, I recently disappeared off the face of the forum as was madly finishing my last book and also (the day after deadline!) moving to the US - am here now! I was just lurking in the Apple store while they changed my UK cord for a US cord and saw that there is a single DVD set with EVERY National...
- Fri March 19th, 2010, 7:21 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Hello! Any more writers out there?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 887
Hi Deborah and welcome! Your books sound really interesting and original - love the idea of the story based around the orchid. Good luck with it when it is released. I went to the Lake District once and it is stunning, though I live in Scotland at the moment so it is quite similar. Very inspiring fo...