Lindisfarne is an island at high tide, so they have safe crossing times posted on a board at each end of the causeway. We stopped the car to check them and plan how long we could spend there. Janet’s mother insisted we should also check them when we got to the far side - since they might be different coming the other way...
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So... her logic applies to all females? Poo on you... :oP
Good for her, I say, shows some fresh off-the wall thinking we need more of in this world. She should be running an investment firm – couldn't do much worse than the MBA suits have. You're just jealous Jeff :) admit it. But seriously, I just noticed your "inhabitant of the hungry ghost realm" at the bottom of the side bar here and feel intrigued. I may have missed that short story.. can you reveal which one he appears in? Curious about the novel, too, hope you're not giving up on that.
I think I could make quite a long post on that, Andrea (in fact, I think I did once.) But I was only teasing.
So that's what 'thinking outside the box' is, Della. Mmm...
I haven't posted that story, since there were things I wasn't too happy about. I'll take another look at it. I might. Still don't know what to try next with the novel.
I know you're just teasing... ;o)
On a slightly different note, I just read that the British government is putting quotas on the number of foreign authors a bookstore can sell. I was trying to find more on this since it will no doubt impact what British publishers will choose to publish in future (in case things aren't bad enough). Of course the good news is that this shouldn't affect you. Keep trying the agents maybe, though I know how blocked they are now...not sure where E publishing is going, no one is though...maybe just keep trying the conventional way until it costs too much in stamps (or what about the U.S.? many houses/agents accept e-mail submissions, more than in the UK).
This is astonishing, Della. If the arts can’t be free of narrow nationalistic boundaries, what can? Sounds to me like the ghost of Thatcherism rattling its chains.
I’ve been trawling the agents through Preditors and Editors, and one thing I’ve found difficult is the fact that a surprising number of them don’t have websites, so it’s difficult to get a ‘feel’ of them. I gather there some bad agents out there. And I’ve still only found one mainstream publisher that will take unagented submissions. They declined. Haven’t given up yet, though.
Yes it is astonishing, so much so that when I looked more closely I discovered it was an April fool's joke (http://www.thebookseller.com/news/government-set-curb-foreign-authors.html). There's my feminine logic at work :) Phew! I can still send submissions to the UK that will never actually be read. Anyway, I know what you mean about agents and the lack of information, it's tricky. In the past I used the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook – it's a decent reference source but it's pricey. Maybe your local library has it?
What a shame. One less thing to complain about!
How times have changed. When I was a photographer I used Writers and Artists’ Yearbook all the time, and even bought the updated version at least every second year. Now I assume everything you need to know is on the internet.
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