2011 & Give Peace a Chance

Ashamed to say , yes I´m back. The last year has been busy, problematic, great, inspirational. I nearly lost my whole manuscript to a dodgy publisher and I have been writing flat out a novel, not finished...micro stories keep popping into my head, and needed recording and short stories. You know I could be a paperback writer, or whatever. But with world events as they my message is the same as dearly missed John Lennon.

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

All Things Must Pass

Thankyou dear George for such a lovely title.
Well it arrived, all nicely packaged and on opening no sign of a little rejection slip......my heat skipped a few beats, as I saw the letter heading, my hope was raised a little, sillyme... they had just been ever so nice and wrote their rejection, basically wasn´t they were looking for, (Ibet they say that to all the girls and boys). No problem, I didn´t really feel disappointed, and that is being honest, hand on heart, where as with other books I have sent out, I kind of gave up on them after the third rejection. Any way wizzed off another introductory letter, put everything in a nice fresh envelope and sent it off directly, publisher no.2. So the waiting begins once more. haaa! I love suspense.

The Postmans knocks twice

My postman didn´t knock twice...It wasn´t my manuscript, so still no news, but I was pretty nervous there for a while, it was a large envelope with some info in....so keep hoping, thats why You know me as hope. Without a little hope what do we have. Any way got the proof from Create Space, the illustrations were more or less ok, and I would have accepted it if the page numbers hadn´t jumped all over the place, so I went through the whole book tweaking it here and there, so now I am awaiting yet another proof. It looked better than imagined, I had initially wrtten it as a pocket size book but now it is 8,25 x 8,25" and 60 pages half with full colour illustrations. So its changed from what I had first thought, to something different, but I quite like it this size.

So there you go, working on one book, thats going slowly,slowly, and on the days its not happening I am collecting information for another idea. But I am a bit lethargic, because I have been with headaches and severe eye pain, diagnosed as glaucoma. Also have the mumps, Cant believe it, and dont believe it..but my face is swollen and painful....eeeh will it get better..soon I hope.should have the next proof in a couple of days. So lets see what gives.

Harvest Moon

I have returned from my journey today,in the post box was an advisory slip that they had tried to deliver me something from UK....I think that this may be my book........complete with thankyou but no thankyou. They, those onimous ones do not email, they either shred it or "return to sender"

The small book I spoke about, I decided to try Create-space, and am awaiting a proof copy. The picture above is the illustration for the cover...my own design.I have had a lot of problems uplpoading the images, seems although I design and send them at 300dpi, They open at a lot less appearing blurred and pixelated. Someone out there must be able to help me with this one ....please. there must be a knowledgeable person who can tell me whats happening.........PLEASE.

The other problem I have found going this route is the shipping costs more than the book, which makes it expensive for those outside the USA...not a plus point.

I am awaiting the proof to see the quality, and will tell you more. So arrival home from complete peace, to 2 bounding german Shepherds (dogs not men) sorry that was a bad one!!

keep watching, within the next couple od days all hell may break out on this page, stranger things happen under a Harvest Moon.

The girl with Kalidoscope Eyes

Yep, thats me, that how I feel, watching, waiting....hoping, secretly knowing. Afraid someone will lift my words and ideas. God you could drive yourself crazy, haven´t heard anything...yet. But I knew it would be like this. I remember years back had a go at writing romantic novels, you know the kind, innocent sweet maiden, one handsome hunk that fights to win her heart. these 2 novels sit on my shelf, collecting dust. NO; my novel I just completed was not a romantic girl meets hunk. It was more along the spiritual lines. I am quite far into a new one now, although its still very much in the planning chapters and characters, but chapter one is almost ready to go. My headaches have become severe once more, holding me back. Still back to the Neuro and see what is going on. I often wonder about all you nice people out there,reading my one way conversation!!hello to you all

Another Brick in the Wall

Oh my, can it really have been so long? Must have been something bad that I did. Some rotten virus hit me as I opened a webpage that I visit often, and zap! down went my laptop with all the goodies stored on the hard disc with it. Fortuately I had my book on disc, well done! I hear you say, or so I thought................the final edit had not been copied onto disc, silly me. Sooooooo it´s been a time of re editing it once more, and now it´s complete again. The rst of the ideas and artwork has been lost, that will teach me a lesson..I promise in the future to keep copies of everything. "Teach your children well" Well its back to waiting time, what amazes me is it takes 3 months to open the first page and say NO, Oh well "Another Brick in the Wall" and on with the next. So if you continue to visit great and welcome, join me in another marathon of putting words together on paper, and the trials and tribulations of a writer.

Here comes the sun

Well Thats it, finished and ready for enriching the life of the mailmen that will be delivered my brown, unsolicited envelopes to a variety of publishers. Probably first stop is the bin, sad and unopened waiting to burst all over the desk, of he who says yes...no..maybe. It has been quite a remarkable few weeks, as I knuckled down to finally complete this manuscript, in between being plagued by terrible headaches that woke me aat night, like knives searing through my head. So I got very tired but carried on with the manuscript. I was irritable and finally ended up in emergencies being scanned for a tumor, thank god there wasn´t one, but its been a series of investigations including mri with liquid pumped into my brain in search of a clot...Thank you god all clear. So the headaches continue and i continued to finish the manuscript, my mind relieved that what ever it is, cant be too serious. Next project....I will tell you on my next post. Thankyou for reading.