tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3278992181147547322024-03-05T05:05:55.826+00:00Novelistas Ink.Valerie-Anne Bagliettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01723076388057535678noreply@blogger.comBlogger194125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327899218114754732.post-14869090875603690922021-01-18T11:31:00.001+00:002021-01-18T18:19:57.492+00:00A Month of Being Brave: Summing Up<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIgtNznVPIrhgHmlYcacQDqpko1pK_kFfcE9hBK1FzpE7lWPmjcnpsxsCTRLFFFB9cB0TFB-0phXALKpVIHDOdAgloMkGFVVfEBV3mto413ymSLfuSSpTbDJoKBns1uWGR74bUtm5i5ks/s500/A+WINTER%2527S+DREAM+small.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="326" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIgtNznVPIrhgHmlYcacQDqpko1pK_kFfcE9hBK1FzpE7lWPmjcnpsxsCTRLFFFB9cB0TFB-0phXALKpVIHDOdAgloMkGFVVfEBV3mto413ymSLfuSSpTbDJoKBns1uWGR74bUtm5i5ks/w131-h200/A+WINTER%2527S+DREAM+small.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><br />In November I set
myself the challenge to follow Liberty’s example in <b><i>A Winter’s Dream</i></b> and spend
the month of December being brave (I wrote about it <a href="https://novelistasink.blogspot.com/2020/11/my-year-of-being-brave.html#comment-form" target="_blank">here</a>). I invited
friends and family to set me challenges that would push me out of my comfort
zone or encourage me to try new things.<p></p>
<h4 style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">How did I get on?</h4>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">I’m pleased to say that I:</p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">made a quilt</span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">climbed Kinder Scout</span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ran 10km</span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">learned how to knit</span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">made the 13 desserts of Christmas</span></li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjZZg94U3MAfKBXK-QPvWNj5tcgfgmtR2L6KO2RkYxa8XmAJGk_B9n8fR-IAeY1jKuwZXW1AqFYYITXBLFm2cxJIDTTmPtsNU1SKcugC8KqTrNupxinj7xfaugd9qvVSYfmi18zbQlHAU/s1600/Challenge+1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjZZg94U3MAfKBXK-QPvWNj5tcgfgmtR2L6KO2RkYxa8XmAJGk_B9n8fR-IAeY1jKuwZXW1AqFYYITXBLFm2cxJIDTTmPtsNU1SKcugC8KqTrNupxinj7xfaugd9qvVSYfmi18zbQlHAU/w320-h181/Challenge+1.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />You can see videos for each of these
challenges on my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz07gVdQM-oVDaytDJt5sZQ/featured" target="_blank">YouTube channel here</a>. <p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">I was also set the challenge of
reading the classic French novel, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. Unfortunately,
I didn’t complete this one in time, but more about that in a moment.</p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGCj0qo5LAAJLRFznzafyac-oV5EEZGjid-GdkeCG3FciVnjjIOGMuJa2-ClXlCG0Xq01B2fwx9XqxOzd5J9oizkJy4Scq2-vOJNQkV-EuK30rugI3CX6OpCH-4fyRuHdvJzAZRH1bZcE/s1499/Kinder+Scout+challenge+%25282%2529.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1465" data-original-width="1499" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGCj0qo5LAAJLRFznzafyac-oV5EEZGjid-GdkeCG3FciVnjjIOGMuJa2-ClXlCG0Xq01B2fwx9XqxOzd5J9oizkJy4Scq2-vOJNQkV-EuK30rugI3CX6OpCH-4fyRuHdvJzAZRH1bZcE/w320-h312/Kinder+Scout+challenge+%25282%2529.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Climbing Kinder Scout</td></tr></tbody></table><div>The physical challenges (a run and a hike) were a very different kind of
fear from the others, and the thrill when I completed them was equally
physical. I found completing these challenges life-affirming, invigorating, and
they gave me a real high. </div><div><div><br /></div><div>I’m very keen now to take part in organised races and
to test myself with faster times or longer distances.</div><div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbylIp850-z6XXMcSOQEAS0GGyCiWBuWIoPVkKczQcg6Xa24SHcPmiTZAgxrToI-hXUNxc9oBUyHhUvZA13DFkaSxGuJYZhLpQlNXbI-magy5J69t51PcylcvqG4V7lb65tx4_VhYLoKw/s2016/quilt+challenge.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbylIp850-z6XXMcSOQEAS0GGyCiWBuWIoPVkKczQcg6Xa24SHcPmiTZAgxrToI-hXUNxc9oBUyHhUvZA13DFkaSxGuJYZhLpQlNXbI-magy5J69t51PcylcvqG4V7lb65tx4_VhYLoKw/w150-h200/quilt+challenge.JPG" width="150" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The crafty challenges
(quilting, knitting) were time-pressured, but in normal circumstances would
have been relaxing and mindful. </span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Like with the physical challenges, they’ve made me want to carry on
knitting and make more quilts for charity. </span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’m more confident now that I can
machine-sew, and I’ve added to my skill set. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span>And the baking challenge brought
unexpected drama <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h78AiorLPDA&t=3s" target="_blank">(see the video)</a>, but it was great fun and the results were a bonus! I’ll never
serve Christmas pudding again now I’ve tasted the delicious 'buche de Noel' (chocolate log). </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy_wEK4tIdwAHCIgnYgJsYYj5CoFr-btp9KfYDAiJYP8FvIugSKn2EIMpumgnB2t3qAwmMSXyuNr23DO41tlVm3lNC-K4mN3K1z_7x-r8lESWyq3wp3a4-32_YwPomJfZa7Pt4zoqhJ7s/s2016/13+desserts.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy_wEK4tIdwAHCIgnYgJsYYj5CoFr-btp9KfYDAiJYP8FvIugSKn2EIMpumgnB2t3qAwmMSXyuNr23DO41tlVm3lNC-K4mN3K1z_7x-r8lESWyq3wp3a4-32_YwPomJfZa7Pt4zoqhJ7s/w320-h240/13+desserts.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Les 13 desserts de Noel</td></tr></tbody></table><h4 style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;">What didn’t
work?</span></h4><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4DxoACJmcciQM2NJOO72gfOpWL2-syeHNWP-SottppRiz8b9QrawchS9Yk2R7A_Dqh-fapdXYUtGRjPS5uOAfhRGe0EKB45oRv8sEisdCAYsgSlhEYbbwTty0UcesQ3_0D9TdYJnjHDw/s585/Les+Mis+%25282%2529.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="391" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4DxoACJmcciQM2NJOO72gfOpWL2-syeHNWP-SottppRiz8b9QrawchS9Yk2R7A_Dqh-fapdXYUtGRjPS5uOAfhRGe0EKB45oRv8sEisdCAYsgSlhEYbbwTty0UcesQ3_0D9TdYJnjHDw/w134-h200/Les+Mis+%25282%2529.JPG" width="134" /></a></div>The
novel, Les Misérables, is over 1200 pages long, and I simply didn’t allow
enough time to read it. I kept a week free between Christmas and New Year, but
with hindsight that wasn’t enough. However, even if I’d started reading it
earlier, I was so busy with the other challenges I’m not sure I would have
completed it. But I’m around halfway through and enjoying it, so I’m planning
to finish it in my own time.<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">The downside of doing these challenges
in December was that I had less time to prepare for Christmas. Fortunately,
Christmas 2020 was a low-key affair so I think I got away with it.</p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h4 style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What did I learn?</span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Planning is key for most things, but
especially for those we find scary or difficult. I broke each task down into
small stages, for example, running a bit further each day, and this quietened
the voice in my head that wanted to tell me I couldn’t do it. I could and I
did! </span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">I repeatedly underestimated myself,
then was surprised by what I achieved.</p>
<h4 style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">Would I do it again?</h4>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Definitely! All my challenges required
energy and dedication, but the rewards were huge. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">And having a purpose during the lockdown and Covid restrictions was wonderful. While everyone around me was feeling down and dreading the prospect of a quiet Christmas, I was getting up early to run, and my evenings were filled with baking and knitting. It gave me a positive focus in dark times.</p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">One reviewer of <b><i>A Winter's Dream</i></b> said,
<span style="color: #2b00fe;">“</span><span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I recommend this as a January read, as its
themes include confronting fears, shaking things up, trying something new.”</span> And
I agree. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In fact, I recommend
challenging yourself at any time of year. I’m definitely planning to push
myself more in future. There’s no better way to give yourself a confidence boost
than by surprising yourself with your own achievements.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: white;">Have you challenged yourself
recently? If so, how did it go? I’d love to hear from you.</span></p>
<h4 style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;">Sophie.x</span></h4><div><span style="background-color: white;">PS: A huge thank you to my friends and family who set the challenges, and also to <a href="https://www.annacaigcomms.co.uk/" target="_blank">Anna Caig</a>, who gave me the idea.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span color="windowtext"><a href="http://www.sophieclaire.co.uk/">www.sophieclaire.co.uk</a></span></span></p></div></div>Sophie Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631657785006724034noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327899218114754732.post-73112052357263981422020-11-24T08:52:00.008+00:002020-12-08T09:09:19.744+00:00My Year of Being Brave<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG5ZAPdGWQEr8JLsJWw0B6ZK1Zf1lmqJr8bTHo1SzaPIa5SFZt8wmb9IyUwZQXbuRahrrPK5dq5PeuYq3fu25m8dembLcQldHf_trqbUK42M5eP1l9T936QLGDi188kDmX3taq-ujcMT8/s500/A+WINTER%2527S+DREAM+small.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="326" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG5ZAPdGWQEr8JLsJWw0B6ZK1Zf1lmqJr8bTHo1SzaPIa5SFZt8wmb9IyUwZQXbuRahrrPK5dq5PeuYq3fu25m8dembLcQldHf_trqbUK42M5eP1l9T936QLGDi188kDmX3taq-ujcMT8/w131-h200/A+WINTER%2527S+DREAM+small.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><br />My latest book, A WINTER’S
DREAM, tells the story of Liberty who feels her life is stuck in a rut – so she
challenges herself to say yes to everything for the month of December.<p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<h3 style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left;">“Every opportunity, every invitation, I’ll
accept. Every difficult dilemma, I won’t let myself go for the easy option.
I’ll do the opposite instead. And every day I’ll do at least one thing that
takes me out of my comfort zone.” </h3><p style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left;">A Winter’s Dream by Sophie Claire.</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 36pt; mso-add-space: auto;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">Since the story is
about being brave and overcoming your fears, I decided that the best way to
research this was to have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">a year of
being brave</b> myself. Gulp. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">I needed to feel the fear exactly like my character would, I needed to experience how it felt to dig deep and find the courage to overcome difficult hurdles. So I began by thinking hard about
what we find scary, and a quick poll on Facebook made me realise that it’s
different for everyone. Yes, the obvious ones are heights and parachute jumps,
and spiders and insects featured heavily too, but my biggest fear is getting up to
speak in public. </p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">It terrifies me.</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">I chose not to make a speech at my wedding, I was a
nervous wreck when I had to give presentations for work, and I would do
anything rather than find myself on a stage, tongue-tied with a room full of
faces all watching me.</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">So that was obviously
going to be my first challenge, then! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">I booked myself on a
course for honing your presentation skills, and although it was fun (especially
the bit where I had to read aloud whilst having socks thrown at me!) and I learned
some useful tips, I was still nervous. </p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">Then I won a short story competition and
was invited to read my work at the awards ceremony. It would have been so easy
to say I wasn't available – but just like Liberty I made myself do the opposite
and accepted the invitation. I followed the advice I’d learned of practising,
and speaking slowly and loudly. I also printed my story in an enormous font so
I could read it easily. I was really nervous
beforehand. Would I mess it up? Stumble over my words?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaev0DJtsiTtwQaWthJgaUtyazweGu2IIUdRkhFFxHR-OTqmgvi1EhS9WnFMkUVN0h08e0EuK7fv1thIP6T1r3MC89c9X626j4SM2oe4oOoPiYJp8AiCoXmxaLSvCKz0RaE3Ry0fGiPeY/s1600/Chester+awards.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="ddd" border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaev0DJtsiTtwQaWthJgaUtyazweGu2IIUdRkhFFxHR-OTqmgvi1EhS9WnFMkUVN0h08e0EuK7fv1thIP6T1r3MC89c9X626j4SM2oe4oOoPiYJp8AiCoXmxaLSvCKz0RaE3Ry0fGiPeY/w240-h320/Chester+awards.JPG" title="ttt" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chester Prize for Literature 2019</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The big day came and I was even more nervous when I discovered there was
no podium to hide behind and no microphone either. My legs were shaking so much
I was sure everyone would see. <p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">But I did it.</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">I read clearly and didn’t mumble
or get tongue-tied, and afterwards people came to tell me how much they’d
enjoyed my story. I was by no means the best speaker – one lady read with such
expression it was liking watching an actress at work and I was full of
admiration – but I did ok. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">The relief was
overwhelming. And the sense of achievement too. I’d surprised myself and I was
elated. If I could do this, what else could I do that I’d never dared try
before? Suddenly the world didn’t seem such a frightening place after all. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">What else did I do in my year of being brave? Well, on a research trip to Provence I
drove a hire car in France for the first time. Driving on the right-hand side was the trickiest part, and getting used to the gearstick on the right took some time. I also left the Sat Nav in French mode rather than English because this was not the easy option, but great research. And I managed, even if I did drive up one particularly windy mountain road in 2nd gear all the way! (I used that experience in the book).</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">My year of being brave brought some great memories, and my confidence really grew as a result. Pushing myself out of my comfort zone was fabulous research for my book, and the sense of achievement when I accomplished something I hadn’t thought possible was unbeatable. </p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">But it's not over yet. </p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">For the month of December I'm going to follow Liberty's example and say YES to challenges set for me by friends and family. There'll be around half a dozen, and they will include:</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>running 10km</li><li>a sewing challenge (Liberty's a keen quilter) </li><li>a baking challenge to make the 13 desserts of Christmas (a Provencal tradition mentioned in the book)</li></ul><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">You can follow my progress on <a href="https://twitter.com/SClaireWriter" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sophieclairewrites/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sophieclairewrites/?hl=en" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. And perhaps you'll be inspired to challenge yourself too? (Let me know if you do, and I'll cheer you on!) </p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">I must admit, I'm quite daunted by the prospect of facing these challenges: there will be nowhere to hide if I don't succeed in them. But I've learned that half the battle is being willing to simply have a go. So here's to a month of being brave. Wish me luck!</p><p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4 style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;">Sophie.x</h4><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm6i7j7qMOhnttYq8GCjdv9SMKIkOM1bWP0TUDuZkTnkchPBB_23lUxB3dBL7mZtBCa2gEUajOPBpHkB6THcCH5VvkqW5DSD-Oqgg1psdrIiw-EwPdOjM3ewz9zlLnQc9tjbaXIz95c0Q/s500/A+WINTER%2527S+DREAM+small.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="326" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm6i7j7qMOhnttYq8GCjdv9SMKIkOM1bWP0TUDuZkTnkchPBB_23lUxB3dBL7mZtBCa2gEUajOPBpHkB6THcCH5VvkqW5DSD-Oqgg1psdrIiw-EwPdOjM3ewz9zlLnQc9tjbaXIz95c0Q/w131-h200/A+WINTER%2527S+DREAM+small.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><br />Sophie’s
latest book, <b>A WINTER’S DREAM</b>, is available in Tesco, online and in bookshops. <o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="getbook.at/AWintersdream" target="_blank">Amazon</a><br /></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/books/a-winter-s-dream-a-heart-warming-and-feel-good-cosy-read-for-2020/9781529392838" target="_blank">Bookshop.org</a><br /></p>Sophie Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631657785006724034noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327899218114754732.post-2946586471305264332020-06-08T12:10:00.001+01:002020-06-11T08:47:31.735+01:00What a Difference 5 Years Makes!<p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Remember this?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBcTdBKCwu5yiJ3wYfntJGbAPQBhRylKhpZk3eC0QP47vJ3nPYFG6QDafJ5fg00Rkk8qP9aVyByGWmtTRhpP7n0S_fY19uoHxeZFtgUH58jGe-s8w6S5ipHOWO-eFrP13xkHJLt9rYDCc/s384/Her+Forget+Me+Not+Ex-1+cover+small+%25282015_12_01+09_14_34+UTC%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="240" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBcTdBKCwu5yiJ3wYfntJGbAPQBhRylKhpZk3eC0QP47vJ3nPYFG6QDafJ5fg00Rkk8qP9aVyByGWmtTRhpP7n0S_fY19uoHxeZFtgUH58jGe-s8w6S5ipHOWO-eFrP13xkHJLt9rYDCc/w125-h200/Her+Forget+Me+Not+Ex-1+cover+small+%25282015_12_01+09_14_34+UTC%2529.jpg" width="125" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal;">I didn’t realise it had been so long,
but Facebook recently reminded me that this was published 5 years ago! Which is
timely – because today the paperback is out of <a href="#" id="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07P7R6316/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1">A FORGET-ME-NOT SUMMER</a>!</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07P7R6316/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="326" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCrR6B91-fQENhxJuML3Cg6mrVTfYJM8vB37Yc_KwklyapPJ3hJI1inrKcascbOPOjr5noftTpLw7I-AiJQwLt9IBdMUutnX1SFoI-zNRHbMH7unXMWURQhQSMZlPEtiAVii8YtFC3kAw/s320/FMNS+cover+small.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="color: #162127; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Foutbound.bookbub.com%2Fmps2%2Fc%2FGwE%2F5y0bAA%2Ft.30o%2F3jT4I228ShuhzPT3_VZQbA%2Fh0%2FSqOsKN2RnQf51x-2F4es-2FrpTuDubyAV89E5sutNxrNfBKJy3NhvgCocpUNpKPZggSjVyjjxHEUWGUJma9HobEHDQLLNozYGYB4bjJB3l3q-2BrtbSWdvuEIlLm4sXgCFGCMNeRKcjS6iOkWBZnp0mkFKkdplt-2FRifVjYSZgfQc-2B-2FT0BxsqUGsosvxn-2B4bCkcQpF2x5-2BwpRRDm-2FT3D-2FBnnwhsnR1D3nKx-2Fs3C1iL0TPOh7nVPYvVzMuMFGMl8nE5PFQfQ%2FKFWp&data=02%7C01%7Ckimberley.atkins%40hodder.co.uk%7C3d374b13a0484a1c1da308d7d9632b57%7Cf881a2c50a89483181b1c7846c49594d%7C0%7C0%7C637216892265717523&sdata=swRqXI2zhzmrwJrxK2af5lw9TLFdeJN3fIL5s7Ui5xA%3D&reserved=0"><span style="color: #162127; text-decoration: none;">Small-town
florist Natasha is determined to leave the past far behind her. But when she
learns her ex-husband never told his family about their divorce — and that he
needs her to accompany him on a trip to the French countryside — could love
bloom again between them?</span></a></span></i></span><i><span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">It’s a re-release with my new
publisher, Hodder. The same book, but not the same.</p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span>Let me explain. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span>You might recall that I signed a
3-book deal with Hodder last year (<a href="#" id="https://novelistasink.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2019-04-26T19:00:00%2B01:00&max-results=3">read about it here</a>) including
this book. However, it was 55,000 words long and the norm in women’s fiction is
80-90,000, so they asked me to make it longer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">At first I found it a daunting
prospect. I wanted the story to carry the reader along and keep the ‘will
they/won’t they’ romantic tension, so I definitely didn’t want to pad it out
with unnecessary scenes or description. Also, my editor and I agreed that we
didn’t want the story to change too dramatically because it had previously sold
well with good reviews.</p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">But as I read the book again, I
realised there was so much in my head which hadn’t made it to the page the first
time round. Backstory about Natasha and Luc, and memories of their brief
relationship in the past. Scenes with Luc’s family which revealed more about
him, his qualities and flaws. I added all this, and it was great to give the secondary characters
more room on the page too. One of the young children rather stole the show with
his desire to teach Natasha how to speak French, and Luc’s father showed
himself to be a mischievous devil!</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN2EhyWv9CYH3S4N4GNe5J8GriAMM5doZH-4bWzDIdXCPie0JUUfO8beFhsLD3nPw4u4iD2BjvFMqRSXHFlvKI1R90CvBncPkbZNtquhNFx66ScRqZJMcW2tnwy5AwD4y8GVScO5UoQiY/s2016/Chocolate+cake2.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN2EhyWv9CYH3S4N4GNe5J8GriAMM5doZH-4bWzDIdXCPie0JUUfO8beFhsLD3nPw4u4iD2BjvFMqRSXHFlvKI1R90CvBncPkbZNtquhNFx66ScRqZJMcW2tnwy5AwD4y8GVScO5UoQiY/w200-h150/Chocolate+cake2.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">Several Provencal dishes were
mentioned in the story too, so I included my own family recipes, some of which
were passed down to me from my French Grandmère.</p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span>I also added more twists in the plot:
complications and obstacles for the characters to overcome. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">But the essence of the story is the
same.</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG-wOIo_CDYME_WcBNCKTebb7e1GLrIgfbZD1OJQfFnaDOY-CdgI65iP46ov_gPyze4189r6iM6Hwr57oBHZ5MgWwV3LZKm0X6SUyOQJI38t-is-z3K3ORSE6kyjTcgCPIUXcIvA52EJM/s847/sunflower1+%25282015_12_01+09_14_34+UTC%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="847" data-original-width="821" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG-wOIo_CDYME_WcBNCKTebb7e1GLrIgfbZD1OJQfFnaDOY-CdgI65iP46ov_gPyze4189r6iM6Hwr57oBHZ5MgWwV3LZKm0X6SUyOQJI38t-is-z3K3ORSE6kyjTcgCPIUXcIvA52EJM/w194-h200/sunflower1+%25282015_12_01+09_14_34+UTC%2529.jpg" width="194" /></a></div>Natasha and Luc have a shared history
and so much pain to work through. However, they’re older now and Natasha’s
success as a florist has given her a confidence she never had before. Luc is
surprised by this, but he respects her all the more for it. And spending time
together in France brings flashes of tension – but also of understanding. Of
connection and chemistry that never really went away. Neither of them wants to
risk their heart again, but what if they can’t help it?<p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">Extending the book
turned out to be a really satisfying experience. It was like revisiting old
friends in that dreamy chateau in Provence surrounded by vineyards and fields
of sunflowers in the shimmering heat of summer.</p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">If you read it the first time round,
I’d love to know what you think of this new longer version. And if you haven’t
read my books before, this is the perfect place to start. My books can all be
read standalone, but they’re linked by the heroines who are friends and chronologically
Natasha’s story in <a href="#" id="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07P7R6316/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1">A FORGET-ME-NOT SUMMER</a> happens first.</p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">In a year when most of us are unlikely
to travel overseas, I hope my readers will enjoy being transported to the heat
and sunshine of summer in Provence.</p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">Happy reading!</p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><i style="font-size: large;"><font color="#3367d6">Sophie.x</font></i></p>
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SUMMER, is available from your local bookshop, Amazon & Tesco stores.</p><o:p></o:p><p></p>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is the second in my series of posts about the publishing process (you can read the first one </span><a href="https://novelistasink.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-publishing-process-part-1-edits.html" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">) with a traditional publisher. As I take you through my journey, I hope to demystify the process and give you an idea of the work which goes into getting a book ready to hit the shelves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A few weeks after I’d completed the edits for my book, <i>The Christmas Holiday</i>, I received the copy-edits. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These were totally new to me, and to be honest I wasn’t prepared for them. I'd heard writers talking about them, but what were they exactly? How did they differ from proofreading? </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think I had expected a few scribbles here and there, pointing out repetition and the like, but not many; after all, the manuscript had been read in detail by four people now and, because I’ve done some proofreading in the past, I like to think my work is fairly polished. Oh how wrong I was!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: justify;">She spotted that I overuse the word ‘shot’ (it’s not a crime novel, honest) and thinned these out, she also deleted a lot of raised eyebrows, and how had I never noticed that all my characters begin their sentences with ‘So’? These were pruned of course.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><br />
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<u>Related posts:</u><br />
<a href="https://novelistasink.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-publishing-process-part-1-edits.html" target="_blank">The Publishing Process Part 1: Edits by Sophie Claire</a><br />
<a href="https://novelistasink.blogspot.com/2019/03/good-things-come-by-sophie-claire.html" target="_blank">Good Things Come by Sophie Claire</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Last month I blogged about the publishing deal I’ve just signed with Hodder & Stoughton (you can read that post <a href="https://novelistasink.blogspot.com/2019/03/good-things-come-by-sophie-claire.html">here</a>), and the Novelistas have asked me to write about the publishing process. Although I had a book published before with a small independent press and a couple of short stories in anthologies, this is my first experience of working with a large traditional publisher. A lot of the process is new to me, and I’m very excited about getting input from professionals: I'm certain that my book, <i>The Christmas Holiday,</i> will be all the better for it. As I take you through my journey, I hope to demystify the process and show how much work goes into polishing a book before it’s ready to hit the shelves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had told myself I’d get straight back to writing book 5 (this one does have a deadline), but it was surprisingly difficult to concentrate until I’d heard if my edits were approved. I forced myself to sit at my desk each day, but my mind was elsewhere, worrying. Was what I’d done good enough? Should I have added more? Would my editor send me a second round of revisions? And if so, how many rounds should I expect?</span></div>
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It’s
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Oh no. </div>
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There’s been so much
waiting, nail-biting and doubt along the way, but I hope my story gives comfort
to others that there is always hope. </div>
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So here’s how it came about:</div>
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A brief background</h4>
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My first novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Her Forget-Me-Not Ex</i>, was published in
2015 by a small press. It sold well, much better than I expected in fact, but
it had always been my goal to have an agent, so when I finished my second book
I sent it out. I signed with Megan Carroll of Watson, Little Literary Agency in
March 2016. Megan loved my second book, a summery friends-to-lovers story set
in Provence. She approached publishers with it, and although we had a few near
misses and really positive feedback, it didn’t sell. I won’t lie, this was
disheartening (for both of us – it’s easy to overlook how passionately
agents represent their clients and how much work they do on their behalf). <o:p></o:p></div>
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During months of not
hearing anything, I had to keep the faith, be patient (I’m not very good at
that) and keep writing. </div>
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On the bright side, the submissions process is a slow one, and by the time Megan had
exhausted her list of publishers, I had almost finished writing my third book
(a Christmas story, set partly in England and in Provence). I’m glad I did
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Celebrate!</h4>
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I was utterly thrilled
and, after Megan’s call, I confess there were a few tears. This was what I’d
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Christmas Holiday</i> in October this year, re-release my first novel (under a
new title) next year, and publish a third book which I’m currently writing in
time for Christmas 2020. </div>
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I’ve already begun
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Although I’ve been published before, Hodder & Stoughton is a large
traditional publisher, and a lot of the process is new to me. I never realised
so much work went into bringing a book to publication beyond the author writing
‘The End’. It’s exciting to be getting input from so many experienced
professionals, and I know my book will be all the better for it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sophie Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631657785006724034noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327899218114754732.post-18971332265235349172019-01-07T13:23:00.000+00:002019-01-07T13:23:27.579+00:00Recipe from the Book: Mincemeat Flapjacks by Trisha Ashley<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So, Christmas is over, the decorations are packed away, every mince pie has been eaten... and you find a half-eaten jar of mincemeat lurking at the back of the fridge. What do you do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Er,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(c) Make more mince pies?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">How about trying this recipe for mincemeat flapjacks from Trisha Ashley's <i>The Magic of Christmas</i>. They are easy to make, taste good all year round, and are not just for Christmas!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Mincemeat Flapjacks</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Melt together the sugar, butter and syrup in a pan over a low heat, then stir in the mincemeat and, once warmed through, the oats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Put into the oven for about half an hour: it should be slightly golden brown. Remove and leave to cool for fifteen minutes before marking into squares or slices.</span></div>
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<i>The Magic of Christmas by Trisha Ashley</i></div>
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<i>In the pretty Lancashire village of Middlemoss, Lizzy is on the verge of leaving her serially unfaithful husband, Tom, when tragedy strikes. Good job she has welcome distractions in the form of her Christmas Pudding Circle, a circle of friends swapping seasonal recipes, and a simmering rivalry with cookery writer Nick Pharamond – a rivalry set to come to boiling point after he snatched the Best Mince Pie prize away from her at the village show.</i></div>
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<i>Meanwhile, the whole village is gearing up for the annual Mystery Play which takes place on Boxing Day. But who will play Adam to Lizzy’s Eve? Could it be the handsome and charismatic soap actor Ritch Rainford, or could someone closer to home win her heart? Whatever happens, it will certainly be a hard act to follow next year!</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My Santa tree topper is made of painted papier-mâché and is over a hundred years old. I know this, because it was bought with her pocket money by my mother's older sister when she was a little girl, and my mother is now 93... His red suit has faded into a soupy brown over the years, but in a misguided moment Mum tarted him up with glitter glue and a cotton wool beard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My sweet and sorry-looking little snowman has graced the mantelpiece during the festive season for several years now, since my daughter ‘adopted’ it at her primary school Christmas fayre. Another child had made it anonymously, but out of all the other sock snowmen for sale it was the one my little girl chose to bring home, and somewhere along the line it lost an eye, yet that only makes it more precious. I wish that anonymous child somewhere could know that their creation found a good home with us, but I suppose that child is a stroppy teenager by now who might not care (although secretly in their heart, I hope they do!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Many years ago, before I was married, my future mother-in-law taught me how to make these hand-sewn decorations. Back then my day job wasn’t creative, so I was thrilled when after a couple of hours I had made something – and that’s when I caught the sewing bug.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Over the years I’ve moved on to bigger projects like patchwork quilts, but each Christmas I return to making these little decorations. I love to personalise them, picking fabrics with particular friends and family in mind, and when the children were small they used to help too, cutting out circles of fabric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the late 1940s, a group of young German children were brought from their bombed-out cities to my home town to stay with local families for a few months. My grandmother looked after two of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They never forgot her, and every Christmas they would send a card with a small gift for her grandchildren. One year there was an advent calendar, rare here at that time; no one else in our street had one. Another year we were sent a tiny doll. Dressed with scraps from my mother’s sewing box, she has topped our Christmas tree ever since. She’s old and faded, but conjures up so many memories of Christmas over the past seventy years that she’s irreplaceable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Last year I visited Liverpool's Anglican cathedral shop just before Christmas and my eyes alighted on these bright sparkling miniature glass Christmas trees. I just had to have one. After buying one, I thought my tree lacked an angel, so I went around the shop and discovered a host of angels. I chose Angel Florence, thinking of my father's sister Florence who was found drowned in the Leeds Liverpool canal during the Second World War.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My middle name is Florence and I like to think of my aunt looking out for me, my sort of guardian angel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Christmas decoration with special memories is the fairy that stood on the top of each Christmas Tree for as long as I can remember. Since I was a little girl, it was always tied on first, before the tree went up. Then came the lights, followed by the tinsel and the rest of the decorations. Those old family Christmases have long gone, but I have inherited the fairy, along with some of the other decorations, which are now interspersed with ones I’ve collected over the years. So the day the fairy goes up on top of the tree is still the day Christmas begins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My favourite Christmas ornaments are two snowmen and a later addition of a little girl. This is me being sentimental. When my first son arrived, he was only a couple of months old for his first Christmas, so we had to have a tree. I began collecting baubles and I found a jolly snowman and decided this was his special one. Some years later when son number 2 arrived, I remembered the snowman and amazingly found another one. Go forward a number of years, my daughter arrived and before her first Christmas I found this little girl with blonde plaits. This, I imagined might be how she’d look in a few years’ time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When I was little my father would take me everywhere - probably to give my poor mother a break - and I can remember going into a petrol station when I was about four, seeing this Nativity scene and falling in love with it. I don't know why. Perhaps I thought it was some kind of dolls' house. But my father bought it for me and I spent many happy hours playing with it - until I was told it had to be packed away because it was a 'Christmas decoration'! But it came out again the following year, and the year after that, and perhaps this is why it has lasted so many years. The Star of Bethlehem fell off very quickly, to be replaced by a milk bottle top, and at some point I lost one of the sheep. And a few years back my husband accidentally crunched it underfoot! But a bit of Superglue later and it was soon as good as new!</span></div>
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chats, talks, readings, and workshops, the speakers this year included <a href="https://joannacannon.com/" target="_blank">Joanna Cannon</a> (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Trouble with Goats and Sheep</i>),
<a href="https://www.sarahperry.net/" target="_blank">Sarah Perry</a> (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Essex Serpent</i>), <a href="http://www.mirandakaufmann.com/" target="_blank">Miranda Kaufmann</a> (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Black Tudors</i>) and <a href="https://twitter.com/LucyMangan" target="_blank">Lucy Mangan</a> (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Although the festival is mainly aimed at readers, some of the authors offered tips for would-be writers. In particular, Joanna Cannon spoke
at length about her working day and how she became published, and I thought
readers of this blog would be interested in what she had to share. As I didn’t
take written notes, I have paraphrased.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Joanna tries to avoid giving writing advice. In fact, she
jokingly said that her writing advice would be to never give writing advice!
She never dreamt her books would be so successful and she finds it mind-blowing
that her books have been translated and are available in countries all over the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She likes to write about characters that would ordinarily be
overlooked in society. Her writing day starts at 3.00 am (it's deliberate! She finds she works better that way), when she walks her
dog across the fields near her home and thinks about the story she’s writing.
She doesn’t plan her books. She has a vague idea of what is going to happen and
how the story will end. She writes about 1,000 words a day, reading back over
what she has written the day before and editing it before writing something
new. Rather than writing a rough first draft, she writes and polishes as she
goes along. She doesn’t have a study but prefers to move from sofa to sofa
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Joanna wrote her first novel she wrote it for herself, never believing it would go on to be so successful, or that people would start
analysing it – or that American publishers would want to change her words and
characters to suit an American audience! When she wrote her second novel she
made the mistake of wondering how others would judge her work and if readers
from other countries would understand what she was trying to say, and she found
this really stifled her creativity. The way she moved past that was to realise
you have to write your story the way you want to write it. It has to be <i>your</i> story,
that only <i>you</i> can tell. If readers like it, that's great, but she now accepts
you can never please everyone all the time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Joanna’s first book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Trouble with Goats and Sheep</i>, was published after she attended a writing
conference. She had no idea if her writing was any good, so she entered a
competition where writers had to read the first 500 words of their book aloud to
a room of publishing professionals. She won, and by Monday had offers of
representation from seven literary agents. A few weeks later she had a publishing
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Joanna admits to reading her reviews, good and bad, and says
that as a writer you do have to laugh sometimes at the one star ones. For
example, in her first book, set firmly in 1970s England, one of her readers had
been disappointed that there was no mention of Battenberg cake. So she made sure
it was in the second book, joking that she knew at least one reader would be
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She has the voices of the characters in her head before she
starts writing and tries to find something to pull the reader into the story,
to make them keep reading. As a reader, she’s a sucker for books that have a
secret. Although her books have been labelled ‘uplit’ by the media, personally she
enjoys reading dark, twisty thrillers. And as she tends to skip any kissing
scenes, there is no kissing in any of her books!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>If you'd like to listen to Joanna's talk yourself, it is available via SoundCloud <a href="https://soundcloud.com/gladstones-library/gladfest-2018-joanna-cannon-three-things-about-elsie" target="_blank">here</a> for another two weeks.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The talks by some of the other authors can also be heard on SoundCloud <a href="https://soundcloud.com/gladstones-library" target="_blank">here</a>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.gladstoneslibrary.org/" target="_blank">Gladstone’s Library</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/events-courses-list/gladfest-2018" target="_blank">Gladfest</a></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Novelista
Annie Burrows went to the Romantic Novelists' Conference this year in Leeds,
and gives her own, very personal, take on the event.</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This
year’s conference of the <a href="https://romanticnovelistsassociation.org/" target="_blank">Romantic Novelists' Association</a> was held at Leeds
Trinity University.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first thing I
did on arrival was send pictures of my room to my daughter, as I’d promised to
keep in touch with her during the weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A quick recce of the kitchen (plenty of gin and tonic in the fridge so I
knew I was going to get on well with whoever was on my landing) and then it was
off to the first talk.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My
second session was “Falling in Love – with Mills & Boon.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as it actually said on the programme,
“followed by workshop”, I was prepared to do a bit of work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a short description of what editors are
looking for in the various lines, and a quiz to determine which type of hero we
would prefer to write, we split up into groups, to prepare an outline of the
conflicts that might arise between a hero and heroine of whichever line the
quiz put us, and think about how to show them falling in love with each other
in spite of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately, I got
mostly B’s, which put me in the historical group.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first thing we had to decide was an
era.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lady next to me shouted <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Saxon</i>!, and nobody saw any reason to
argue, because straight away we could find a source of external conflict by
having the hero a conquering Norman, and the heroine a defeated Saxon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, we then decided it would be a bit
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conquering Norman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But how could we
throw them together in a way that might cause them to see that they were
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them being on opposing sides?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’d just
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the veil rather than marry the man her father has chosen for her, when our time
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I
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wafting the air in my student bedroom round, keeping me relatively cool all
night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had also drowned out the noise
of the aircraft coming into land at Leeds Bradford Airport, which was about a
mile away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Or possibly more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps it only sounded as though it was a
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of emailing and phoning round to get him onto an alternative course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so I’m still not sure which speaker was
<a href="http://carolcmcgrath.co.uk/" target="_blank">Carol McGrath</a> and which was Charlotte Betts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, after listening to how the speaker became interested in what
happened to people after the fire of London, and hearing her vivid description
of the spice warehouses burning, shooting out flames of various colours, I
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self-editing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alison is a really
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that what I’ve printed in capitals, and underlined twice, is the title of her
next book, which I really want to read, having listened to her speak. <i>All That Was Lost</i> is (available from Amazon from 6<sup>th</sup> Sept).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last
morning session was given by <a href="http://fionaharper.com/" target="_blank">Fiona Harper</a>, and called “Romance Structure – how
three-act structure applies to love stories”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And that description was spot on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Again, I have pages of notes about applying a three act structure to a
story, with appropriate turning points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And again, in capital letters, and underlined, are the titles of two
more books I want to buy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Story Trumps
Structure</i> by Steve James and <i>The Memory Collector</i> by Fiona Harper.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At
lunch time came my favourite moment of the entire conference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An as-yet-unpublished-writer I </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">sat next to
made my day by saying that I didn’t look old enough to be a grandmother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then trumped that by giving a very
flattering opinion about people who write for Mills & Boon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I gave her a signed copy of my latest
release, naturally.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, she then
proved that I am not as fantastic as I’d like to think, by telling me all about
the session she’d attended that morning, about pitching a story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was, apparently, the first part of the
session I was about to attend, “Writing a Synopsis.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had I read my conference notes properly (or
at all) I would have seen that I was supposed to have attended both parts, as
they were really one 2 hour lecture chopped into two bits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, the speaker, <a href="http://www.debbietaylor.co/" target="_blank">Debbie Taylor</a>, meant this
synopsis to be the kind of thing to send to a publisher after having completed
a story, as part of a pitch to publishers and editors, NOT as an outline of
what you intend to write, which was what I wanted to learn how to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because, even though I have now had 27 books
published, I still find writing a synopsis extremely hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I brought two things out of that
session.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first was the heartening
news that agents often take little notice of a synopsis, because so many
authors are so bad at writing them, (yay!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m not alone!). The second, from the workshop part of the session, was
a one-line character description of my hero which I am definitely going to
include in the synopsis I will send into my editor:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Thomas
Norrington, handsome, fair-haired Marquess of Devizes, can persuade just about
any woman into his bed with one lazy smile.”</span></div>
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last talk I attended on Saturday was “Truth can be stranger than
fiction…<a href="http://www.barbara-erskine.co.uk/" target="_blank">Barbara Erskine</a> in conversation with <a href="https://www.nicolacornick.co.uk/" target="_blank">Nicola Cornick</a>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again, in my notes, I have the title of
Barbara’s next book underlined and in block capitals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, after hearing Barbara describe how
she lived in a house where she saw a ghost child sitting on the stairs crying,
and how various members of her family had psychic links with each other I
changed my mind about buying it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>The
Ghost Tree</i> sounds like the kind of thing that would give me nightmares!</span></div>
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then had to spend some time getting glammed up for the gala dinner, especially
as the historical writers for Mills & Boon who were attending had already
agreed to do a Facebook video for the Harlequin Historical books page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can view that <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HarlequinHistorical/" target="_blank">here</a>. And note that
I am virtuously drinking orange juice, rather than bubbly, since I had already
partaken of…no, not gin this time, but Lemsip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The
meal was lovely, the company even better, and at the end of the meal, the
winner of the Elizabeth Goudge Trophy was announced. <a href="https://elisabethhobbes.co.uk/" target="_blank">Elisabeth Hobbes</a>, fellow historical writer
for Mills & Boon, captivated the judges with an opening for a story titled, <i>The Child from the Sea</i>.<span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sunday
morning I emerged rather bleary-eyed after a sleepless night due to throbbing
sinuses, in spite of the Lemsip, although it had given me a chance to start
reading one of the books I found in my goody bag, <i>Single for the Summer</i> by
<a href="http://mandybaggot.com/" target="_blank">Mandy Baggot</a>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The
first session after breakfast and packing all my stuff and running it to the
car, was aptly named “Emotional Resilience for Writers”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Andrew Cornick, who has worked as a
psychotherapist for the NHS (by this time I had read the background notes about
who was giving the talks and what they were actually talking about), gave some
very useful hints about maintaining mental wellbeing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will remember, in particular, his
description of NATs (negative automatic thoughts) because I had been bitten the
night before, (I sat as near to the doors as I could, to get a cool
breeze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately along with the
breeze, came various flying insects) and spent a lot of his talk scratching the
gnat bites.</span></div>
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coffee break, it was in to “The Bestseller Experiment” a talk given by <a href="https://markstaywrites.com/" target="_blank">Mark Stay</a> about how he and a friend decided to write a book together and get it to
the top of the kindle charts within a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nothing he said will be of any use to me, I shouldn’t think, but it was
a very amusing session, and, once again, I want to read the book he wrote, <i>Back to Reality</i> by Mark Stay and Mark
Oliver.</span></div>
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finally, my last session of the conference, which was called “Word Wenches –
two nations, one language of romance?”
<a href="http://wordwenches.typepad.com/" target="_blank">The Word Wenches</a> blog is one of the longest-running author
collaboration blogs on the web. And it
was fascinating to hear the take on the state of publishing both in the US and
the UK from such talented and experienced writers. Who didn’t agree on everything, and were
comfortable enough with each other to say so!
My takeaway from that session – “There is an audience for
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Many years ago I started up a newsletter called <i>Skint Old Northern Woman</i> (after the magazine Charlie and her sisters set up in <i>Every Woman for Herself</i>.) You can tell it was a long time ago, because I actually posted out a lot of them and the ones I did email I had to send in little batches or my server thought I was a spammer. This got a little time consuming when we reached the thousand mark... </span></div>
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It was a way of saying thank you and keeping in touch with all the kind readers who supported me through the ups and downs of my career.</div>
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The newsletter group slowly grew and grew...but I never forgot the names of the early subscribers, many of whom I now know on here or twitter.</div>
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And some of them I also know via Amazon books - and that is the wonderful thing. Some of those early subscribers were already published authors, some were writing but not yet published, and others just readers, but dreaming....</div>
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Then, as the time of the ebook blossomed, I began to see more and more of their names as published authors and thought 'There you are - well done!'</div>
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Lately, my kind publisher has put out my newsletters for me, with my input - and now I'm over my op and getting my act together, I hope to contribute a whole lot more - and I'm still that same Skint Old Northern Woman inside - who else would I be?</div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: large;"><b>Trisha Ashley</b></span></div>
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<i>Trisha Ashley's Sunday Times bestselling novels have twice been shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance, and </i>Every Woman for Herself <i>was nominated by readers as one of the top three romantic novels of the last fifty years.</i></div>
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<i>Trisha lives in North Wales. For more information about her please visit <a href="http://www.trishaashley.com/">www.trishaashley.com</a>, her <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TrishaAshleyBooks" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> or follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/trishaashley" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.</i></div>
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</span>Louise Marleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09798055811380557773noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327899218114754732.post-2247812496401734762018-06-29T07:25:00.001+01:002018-06-29T07:25:17.244+01:00The Inspiration of Readers by Juliet Greenwood<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’ve just come back from my second year at </span><a href="http://www.northwichlitfest.co.uk/" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">NorthwichLitfest</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, giving a talk about the role of women in the First World War at Sandiway Library, part of Cheshire West and Chester Libraries.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>Juliet Greenwood (left) with </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><i>Susi Osborne</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Despite the extreme heat, I’ve returned energised and
enthused, all ready to knuckle down and get back to my next book, with a
reminder of just how much I love going out and meeting readers. It’s so easy in
my little office, tucked away on a Welsh mountainside, working to deadlines and
the (sometimes) tortuous refining of a story into its final form, to get
completely lost in my own world. You do need that to get a book done, but it’s
easy to forget that readers have their input too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I find coming face-to-face with readers is a great
reminder that a book is always a two-way thing, with both the reader and the
writer bringing their life-experience, passion and imagination to create the
final form, with (hopefully) mutual respect. It’s the scary, but exciting, bit
when the final version of the manuscript leaves the writer’s desk (or rather
your email), and sails off into the ether, to take on a life of its own, out of
your control. The final letting go. It’s also a reminder of why I fell in love
with reading in the first place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My evening with the enthusiastic readers at Sandiway Library was no exception. At the end of my talk on my research into the many
roles of women in WW1 for <i>We That are Left</i>, which ranged from nursing in
French villages as bombs fell, to acting as spies, and leading men separated
from their regiments over the Alps to safety, one of the questions was about
the trenches. This was something I’d agonised over while writing the book, and
it was a very clear decision not to go there. It was strange going back to
those deliberations after several years, and trying to explain my reasons – and
that they weren’t about me being a soppy female and not wanting to face
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The thing is, the trenches are so horrific they
overshadow everything else within a story. While, as a woman writing about war,
I’d wanted to concentrate on women’s different roles in the conflict, which
have been largely forgotten, but played such a part in changing both the way
women were perceived, and also how they perceived themselves. At the same time,
I also wanted to focus on the issue of male trauma and the long-term impact of (then
completely unrecognised) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. My wonderful audience
got this immediately, and the subsequent discussion brought up so many stories
of traumatised soldiers from both world wars, as well as more recent conflicts.
It was a truly moving experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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discussion had helped dispel my own wobbles over the last few years about my
decision to concentrate on that side of conflict, as well as the optimism and
resilience of the human spirit under the most terrible of circumstances. When a
book goes out into the world, and nothing can be changed, it’s so easy to have
doubts, especially when coming at a subject from a slightly more unusual angle,
which leaves you vulnerable to criticism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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much during our evening together. I’ve been buzzing ever since, and I’m already
looking forward to meeting up again next year. Of course, we did end up coming
back to my passion for the Suffragists, and my ultimate heroine, Millicent
Fawcett (I can’t wait to see her statue), but that’s another story…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Greenwood is a UK historical novelist published by Honno Press. Her books are
set in Cornwall, London and Wales in Victorian and Edwardian times, and follow
the lives of independently-minded women struggling to find freedom and
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0e0e0e;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her
latest novel is <i>The White Camellia</i>, based in the Suffrage movement led by
Millicent Fawcett. Juliet's two previous historical novels have reached #4 and #5 in
the UK Amazon Kindle store. <i>Eden’s Garden</i> was a finalist for ‘The People’s
Book Prize’. <i>We That are Left</i> was completed with a Literature Wales Writers’
Bursary, and was Welsh Book of the Month for Waterstones Wales, The Welsh Books
Council and the National Museum of Wales. It was also chosen by the ‘Country
Wives’ website as one of their top ten ‘riveting reads’ of 2014, was one of the
top ten reads of the year for the ‘Word by Word’ blog, and a Netmums 'Top Summer Read' for 2014.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hebden Bridge is a Yorkshire mill town which has been popular with artists, musicians and creatives since the 1970s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nestled amongst the hills, it’s a picturesque place, and it’s also where a group of us, Authors on the Edge, meet regularly to talk books and writing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hebden Bridge is packed with inspiration, from the historic mills, some of which have been converted into artists’ studios, to the volatile River Calder (which sometimes floods with serious consequences for the town centre) and the beautiful hills which encircle the town. You won’t find any American coffee or fast food chains here. Instead, Hebden Bridge is overflowing with independent shops and cafés, and this is what gives the place its unique character. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So when we decided to write an anthology it made perfect sense to set it in the fictional equivalent, Haven Bridge, with an imaginary shop at the heart of all our stories: <i><b>Miss Moonshine’s Emporium of Happy Endings</b></i> is a collection of 9 feel-good short stories, all connected by the mysterious Miss Moonshine and her uncanny gift for knowing exactly what each visitor to her shop needs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With its rose-covered archway and glossy black doors, the exterior of this building provided the inspiration for Miss Moonshine’s emporium. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In reality, it’s a gallery selling jewellery and art. The beautiful stock changes regularly, and it's a place I love to linger. Prices range from very affordable to the more aspirational.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another favourite of mine, this shop provided inspiration for the interior of Miss Moonshine’s. It sells a huge range of quality items: clothes, crockery, jewellery, bags, home decorations, greetings cards...to name but a few. The sheer variety inspired Miss Moonshine's eclectic range of goods to sell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And look at the display inside – a visual feast of scented soaps shaped like candles, cupcakes or glittery bath bombs. Also a great shop for gift-buying, I defy you not to find a soap you have to take home with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Meetings to discuss writing require fuel, and cake is the food of choice for most writers. At Valentine’s the cakes are homemade and delicious – I can recommend them. </span></div>
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I<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">f you want to find the closest thing to<i> </i>Miss Moonshine’s Wonderful Emporium, pay a visit to this place. Filled with stalls selling a variety of vintage treasures, you could lose hours in here. Every object tells a story, from an antique suitcase to a handcrafted Steampunk top hat!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This vintage dress shop is small but perfectly formed. The owner adapts the clothes herself, and she has excellent taste. You'll find a variety of designer and high street labels, sometimes in their original condition, sometimes adapted to bring them up to date. I have yet to come away empty-handed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Another small treasure of a shop, I can’t help but indulge my love of patchwork and quilting by visiting. How can such a small shop contain so many inspiring display quilts and fabrics?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Last time I stopped by I found these beautiful Provençal fabrics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The walk from the station down to the town centre takes you along the tow path with the park on one side and the canal on the other. I wasn’t the only writer to be inspired by this and to feature a canal boat in my story. There’s a feeling of serene calm here, and when the sun is shining it’s even more special. </span></div>
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Are you a plotter or a
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<b>It’s only as I
write that the characters come alive </b>and usually throw my plan out the window to
take new, unexpected routes of their own choosing. Which is great. There’s
nothing better than a character who knows
their own mind and has their own <b>unique fears and dreams and opinions</b>. And if
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But to get to the point where my characters become fully developed like this involves a lot of hard work: hours spent at the computer, writing scenes
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In essence, <b>I write, scrap what I’ve written, then
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It’s a time-consuming process, and I used to berate myself for
not getting it right first time. I wished there was a trusted and experienced
professional would read my synopsis and instantly spot the flaws. A <b>fairy
godmother</b> who would give me advice (kill off the ex-girlfriend,
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<b>It feels scary, fumbling around in the dark</b>, struggling with a story for weeks and months. When it's not going well, writing feels like the loneliest job in the world. I feel lost and alone, I question why I ever started this novel...<br />
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This has been the process with each of the last 3 books I’ve written, and I’m finally
learning to accept it. To <b>keep the faith</b> and keep writing even if what I write
today will be deleted tomorrow. Now, rather than seeing these scrapped scenes
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>SJB</b>: It can be a challenge to get people to take you seriously as a writer. You have to be strict about your writing time. Think of it as work. Don’t let anything interfere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>SJB</b>: If it helps, go somewhere to work where you can’t be interrupted – like a café. You’ll also get that ‘going to work’ feeling!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>AL</b>: Find time to think. Let things percolate. Reads books – it counts as work (films count too, if relevant). But be strict with yourself. And don’t work in the evenings, it’s unhealthy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>SJB</b>: But don’t write yourself out!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>AL</b>: It can sometimes be helpful to leave something for the next day. Try breaking off halfway through a sentence!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>AL</b>: But it is important not to sequester yourself. It’s good to meet other writers. Bounce ideas off each other, compete with word counts, but be supportive of each other. Writers are like magpies, they love new and shiny. Meet new people. Have new experiences. It will make your writing come alive. If you don’t go beyond your own experiences the reader is never surprised and it can lead to inadvertently duplicating ideas or themes from existing books or movies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>AL</b>: It’s easier for others to take you seriously as a writer when you are paid for your work. Don’t use the excuse that because you love your job you’re happy to work for free. Lawyers love their work too but they don’t work for nothing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>If you’re on Twitter, check out SJ Bradley’s timeline (<a href="https://twitter.com/BradleyBooks" target="_blank">@BradleyBooks</a>), where you can find answers to some of the questions there wasn’t time for.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Kathryn Taussig (Associate Publisher: <a href="http://www.bookouture.com/" target="_blank">Bookouture</a>)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Michelle Green</b> told us about her collection of short stories, <i>Hayling Island: Stories at Sea Level</i>, to be published as a digital audio map in collaboration with a composer, digital artist and literary geographer. The map will link to local tidal reports and change according to the real-time time on the island. For example, a story set on one of the sand banks will be inaccessible when the tide is in!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Kit Caless</b> talked about the digital story-telling project, LostLit, which explores the various influences of loss in literature. The LostLit Twitter write club is hosted every first Wednesday of the month between 9.00 pm and 11.00 pm, and open to all. Updates and retweets can be found on <a href="https://twitter.com/LossLit" target="_blank">@LossLit</a>, and hashtagged #LostLit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Kathryn Taussig</b> is an Associate Publisher for <b>Bookouture</b>, who were one of the first digital book publishers. Their challenge was to make their books more visible and to stand out from the crowd. With traditional publishing you only have one shot to get it right. Sometimes even the most promising books can fail for no apparent reason. With digital publishing there can be more individuality, and there is the opportunity to re-brand authors and try things that are different. For example, if a book cover doesn’t work it can be quickly and easily changed. Readers of ebooks are voracious and ideally they want two or three books a year from their favourite authors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bookouture publish mostly commercial fiction, including women’s fiction, romance, sagas, and psychological crime. They take unagented submissions, which can be made through a portal on their website. Their authors receive a higher percentage of royalties – 45% of everything they receive from the retailer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><a href="http://www.debbietaylor.co/" target="_blank">Debbie Taylor</a> (Founder & Editorial Director: <a href="https://mslexia.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mslexia</a>)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A <b>synopsis</b> is the summary of characters and plot in order, not a blurb. Your submission letter explains who you are, the sample of three chapters proves you can write, but the synopsis is there to show how you plan to develop your story. A synopsis may also be used to create the blurb on the back of the book, and sent to the designer to create the cover art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A synopsis should be between 500 and 1,500 words (but check individual guidelines). Write it in the present tense, third person, ‘omnipresent’ point of view. It should start with a summary paragraph, similar to the ‘elevator pitch’, followed by the sequence of actions that make up the plot. Summarise each character’s profile when they turn up. Who propels the story forward? Give their name, occupation, social position, and anything distinctive about their appearance or an unusual personality trait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://novelistasink.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/ncw-graduate-fair-2016-part-1-panels.html" target="_blank">NCW Graduate Fair 2016: Part 1: Panels & Talks by Louise Marley</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://novelistasink.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/ncw-graduate-fair-2016-part-2-pitching.html" target="_blank">NCW Graduate Fair 2016: Part 2: Pitching to Agents by Sophie Claire</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://novelistasink.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/how-not-to-submit-to-agent-reporting.html" target="_blank">How Not to Submit to a Literary Agent by Sophie Claire</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://novelistasink.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/writing-getting-serious-by-louise-marley.html" target="_blank">Writing: Getting Serious by Louise Marley</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.manchesterwritingschool.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Manchester Writing School</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Manchester Metropolitan University</a></span></div>
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By the third day I felt immersed in my story and with this came a feeling of deep calm. It reminded me of when I took part in NaNoWriMo last year – I experienced the same freeing up of the imagination and shutting off of the inner critic, allowing my imagination space to simply create. <br />I could hear the outside world, the cars and buses trundling past on the main road nearby, yet I felt cocooned here and apart. Cloistered, is the word, I suppose.<div>
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The church bells rang four times a day and they soon became a familiar background noise, also calming. Out of curiosity we went to evensong, which was beautiful and the monks were very welcoming. (I kept setting my alarm to go to 6.45am matins too, but I confess I never made it!) <div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">
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Unlike the monks’ meals, these were not silent! <br /><br /><br />The four of us had lots to catch up on, writing projects to discuss, ideas to share. All good fun and inspiring.<br /><br /><br />The whole experience was very liberating and productive. We all agreed that we’d like to do it again and I look forward to that.<br /><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;">
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Sophie Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631657785006724034noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327899218114754732.post-78824914199990418592017-09-01T09:47:00.000+01:002017-09-01T10:02:47.772+01:00I Can't Write Without... by Sophie Claire<b>…My stash of rough paper.</b><br />
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I know – it's not glamorous, it's not an expensive gadget, and in this world of laptops and printers you might think it's a little peculiar and very old-fashioned.<br />
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<li><b>Morning pages</b> (à la <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Artists-Way-Spiritual-Higher-Creativity/dp/B001027X0W/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1501513513&sr=1-1&keywords=julia+cameron+the+artists+way" target="_blank">Julia Cameron</a>). To get me into writing mode at the start of the day I write three pages of whatever's on my mind. It's a great warm-up, and also good for getting any worries off my chest so I'm then free to focus on the novel I'm writing.</li>
<li><b>Sketching out a new scene</b>. Everything I write begins life as rough scribbles, sometimes pared down to pure dialogue to give me the essence of the scene, and I build up from there. </li>
<li><b>Thinking through problems</b>: if I’m stuck, I stop typing and go back to paper. I brainstorm solutions, or write a kind of stream of consciousness, putting down on paper any thoughts that come to mind. Anything at all. This often throws up surprising results and sometimes the solution isn’t as difficult to find as I first thought.</li>
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It’s made up mostly of discarded printouts of my work which I’ve scribbled all over (are you surprised that I also edit by hand?), but environmentalists will be pleased to know that I also salvage from around the house any paper which can be re-used. Letters, flyers, the children’s old homework, including maths papers and sheet music. (For some reason, these especially delight me: I love to see the outlines of graphs which are beyond my understanding or the notes of silent melodies). </div>
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The first couple of lines are usually rubbish, but then I tackle the problem, thinking around it, or getting into the head of the character who’s been enigmatic. They begin to reveal important facts, or sometimes, if they’re still holding back, I ask them questions. (I’ve been told that if I did this using my left hand to write it might be even more effective because it unlocks the right part of the brain, but I confess I’m too impatient). </div>
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it was easy to be blind to sights she saw regularly. The saying “familiarity
breeds contempt” didn’t seem so cliched when she considered how a never-before-seen vista
can spark inspiration, or a new outlook lift a story up out of the grey and
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cottage. A crumbling, ancient gravestone remembering a tragic young life, or a war
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and pinning to study walls. Perhaps she would add her photographs to a Pinterest
board. Or use a particular favourite as a screensaver. She would decide once
she was home. There was no rush. No pressure. It was satisfying simply to be
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>'The Old Vicarage'. </i></span><br />
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Baglietto writes contemporary, grown-up fiction. By night, she clears up after
her husband and three children. Occasionally she sleeps. During her career so
far she has written rom-coms for Hodder & Stoughton, won the Romantic
Novelists’ Association New Writer’s Award and been shortlisted in the 2015 Love
Stories Awards. Valerie-Anne tweets <a href="https://twitter.com/VABaglietto" target="_blank">@VABaglietto</a></i></span></div>
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Valerie-Anne Bagliettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01723076388057535678noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327899218114754732.post-3666972001289295062017-08-18T07:12:00.000+01:002017-08-18T07:12:04.739+01:00Learning Storytelling Techniques from Writing Serials by Juliet Greenwood<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’ve learnt so much from writing serials. Seeing the latest serial by my alter ego, Heather Pardoe, has reminded me just how much the techniques have helped me when writing my novels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The art of writing of a serial is not to be underestimated. It has to be divided into parts, with enough characters and action to keep the story moving, while each part builds to a cliffhanger to leave the reader itching for the next part to arrive. Possibly not with quite the frenzy that greeted the climax of Charles Dickens’s <i>The Old Curiosity Shop</i>, but as near as. No one has yet stormed my local newsagent on the day of publication, but you never know …</span></div>
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You also have to keep the story moving evenly between the various sets of characters, so the reader doesn’t have time to forget or lose interest, and so keeps a vested interest in finding out all their fates. At the same time, the arc of the story must build, as in a novel, and the cliffhangers at the end of each episode need to build as well, ratcheting up the tension until you reach the final climax in the penultimate episode. </div>
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The final episode then has to resolve the story and tie up all the ends without leaving a sense of anti-climax. A lesson in exactly how not to do this is Thackery’s <i>Vanity Fair</i>, which was originally written as a serial. When I re-read the novel recently, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cringe at the final ‘episode’, when the author had clearly finished the story and absolutely and totally lost interest, but had a word count to fill (even Dickens and Thackeray wrote for filthy lucre) and was waffling shamelessly.</div>
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Funnily enough, although I studied <i>Vanity Fair</i> as part of my Literature degree, it wasn’t until I became a writer of serials that the damp squib of that ending made sense. Because I love Becky Sharp, I’m quite glad Thackeray’s half-hearted pontificating is more in the cause of money than good old Victorian pomposity! I’m still nervous when planning the final part of each of my own serials and the endings of my novels. It’s definitely a lesson I’ve taken to heart. </div>
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Most of all, I’ve found I go back to the lessons of serial writing when I’m telling a story from two different points of view in my novels, as in <i>The White Camellia</i>, published by Honno Press, which is told from the viewpoints of two very different women, linked only by a family feud they need to resolve. Balancing the two viewpoints, and maintaining the reader’s vested interest equally in Bea and Sybil, was something I found a real technical challenge. It was overcoming that challenge that made me understand just how invaluable I’ve found the lessons I’d learnt while writing serials like <i>Together We Stand</i>.</div>
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If you want to try writing a serial, you need to check out the market and follow the guidelines – they know their readers and exactly what they like. Magazines like <i>The People’s Friend</i> will work with you on a serial they feel has potential, and are very supportive and great to work with. They also have a huge readership, so are a good way to start getting your name out there.</div>
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<i>Juliet is the author of three serials under the pen name ‘Heather Pardoe’, and has had three novels published by Honno Press. The first, ‘Eden’s Garden’, was a finalist for ‘The People’s Book Prize’, and the second ‘We That are Left’ was completed with the aid of a Literature Wales Writer’s Bursary. Both reached the top #5 in the UK Amazon kindle store. Her latest novel ‘The White Camellia’, is set in Edwardian Cornwall, with a crumbling mansion, a goldmine with a dark secret, and a long-running family feud. She would definitely like to turn that into a TV serial!</i></div>
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</span>Louise Marleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09798055811380557773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327899218114754732.post-34392543121863748042017-08-08T12:45:00.000+01:002017-08-08T22:07:17.264+01:00A Little Learning by Anne Bennett<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I can't remember a time when I didn't write. I was a voracious reader and they seemed to go together. However, I never expected to earn my living by writing books! That sort of thing didn't happen to working class kids in the 1960s when I was growing up. I also wanted to teach, though I achieved this by a roundabout route, entering Teachers' Training College as a mature student after I had got married and had two children of my own. By 1976 I had my teaching certificate and was doing a job I loved. Alas, in the spring of 1990 a spinal injury caused lack of feeling and movement down my legs. I had to use a wheelchair and I was invalided out of teaching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We moved from the West Midlands to a beautiful town in North Wales, but my life stretched out like a void and so to fill the days ahead I began to write. I began to research the origin and meaning of nursery rhymes, a topic that had always fascinated me. I then went on to write for children, interspersing this with writing short stories for the writing magazine I took every month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I only ever submitted one of the stories. It was for a competition for Valentine's Day and my story came second. The prize was a year's subscription to the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA). This organisation run a critique service, the New Writer's Scheme, where unpublished writers submit manuscripts to be read and critiqued by established authors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My first submission the reader said was good but not good enough to be published but, more importantly, it explained why it wasn't. So I made sure I didn't make the same mistakes with the second submission! That was called <i>A Little Learning</i> and it was accepted by Headline. I was ecstatic. It was the most semi-autobiographical book I have ever written. I was advised to 'write what you know', and so the house on the original cover was the house I moved into at the age of seven. The book opens when Jane Travers was 11 in 1947. I wasn't born until 1949, but like her I was a scholarship girl, the only one on the sprawling estate I lived on to pass the 11 plus. Like Jane's mother, mine had a cheque she had to pay in weekly, because the cost of the uniform and other required items came to nearly £100 -one hell of a lot of money for working class people in 1960!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is over twenty years since I wrote this book and life is very different for me. I joined Harper Collins in 2001 and regained the ability to walk in 2006. A few years ago Harper Collins bought the rights for the books I originally wrote for Headline and are re-issuing my very first book this summer. Although the title stays the same, there is a new jacket cover. This shows my Jane all grown now and a teacher on playground duty. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A Little Learning</i> will be released on the 24th August 2017 and hope you enjoy it! </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"How do you plan your books? A kiss at 25%, sex at 50%, an argument at 75%? Or do your books grow organically?"</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Organically, definitely. From somewhere out of the depths of my imagination will come a scene, or an incident… (eg, a girl waking up in bed, naked, with a stranger and no memory of how she got there, or hiding from an embarrassing moment in a ballroom only to witness a scheming woman trying to entrap a man, and facing the moral dilemma of whether to risk more embarrassment by coming out of hiding and saving the hapless man, or staying hidden and feeling guilty for leaving him to his fate.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From then, I imagine what led up to that moment. And how the participants in it will deal with it going forward. And, yes, since I write for Harlequin Mills & Boon, how I can resolve all their problems and give them a happy ending.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The scenarios that will lead to a happy ending may get worked into a synopsis, or brief outline, and filed away in one of my many notebooks. So that if ever I run out of stories I’m burning to write, I can consult them for inspiration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The actual amount of kissing, or sexual intimacy which I write can vary immensely, since it stems very much from the characters personalities and the situations into which I have flung them. In some stories, for example where the couple have to marry for some reason at the start, they may work through their issues with arguments alternating with make-up sex (I think of these as honeymoon books)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In others, if my heroine is a complete innocent, and the hero is trying to win her, or rescue her, then they might not even kiss with any passion until pretty near the end. (my courtship books) It really does depend on the characters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So my books are a bit like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. (And please, no quips about preferring hard or soft centres!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But of course, being a romance, they will come through, in one way or another, whether it means the hero climbing in through a bedroom window with a rose tucked into his crossbelt (<i>An Escapade and an Engagement</i>) or simply writing the heroine a revised list (<i>Lord Havelock's List</i>) (Though it’s funny how it nearly always seems to be the hero who has to do the grovelling!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To be honest, I think that planning out my books to the extent you mentioned would feel a bit like painting by numbers. Maybe it would be a bit easier if I could produce stories in this way, but I wouldn’t feel as if I was being so creative. Nor would I get that sense of getting to know my characters as I write about them. They wouldn’t become such real people to me, or, I suspect, to the reader.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Annie's next book is "The Major Meets his Match," the first of a mini-series with three heroes attempting to solve a crime.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is available for <a href="http://amzn.to/2v0dVwC" target="_blank">pre-order from Amazon.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can read the opening on <a href="https://www.overdrive.com/media/3148838/the-major-meets-his-match" target="_blank">Overdrive</a></span></div>
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I have a writer friend – let’s call her Jane – who recently divulged that she’s been a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association for twenty years and has never been to a conference.</div>
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I’ve been to 8 conferences, and I always come away brimming with ideas and motivation <strike>and a hangover.</strike> This year the RNA conference was held at Harper Adams University, and I thought I’d write a post about it – because if Jane knew what went on there, she’d want to try it for herself, right?</div>
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So what happens at an annual gathering of romance-loving writers? And aside from receiving a free goody bag (with chocolate and free books - Jane will like those!), what’s in it for you?</div>
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Because the RNA is a professional body, it offers the rare opportunity to glean from the experts their insights into the <b>current state of the publishing industry and future trends</b>.</div>
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This year the conference kicked off with an industry panel made up of <b>agents and publishers</b>. What they had to say was positive: people are still reading a lot (sales of books were steady year on year), and romance and crime are the most popular genres (6 out of 10 books sold are romance). In the UK, sagas are especially sought after (although readers are wary of longer books), and there is more of a mash-up of genres developing: for example, we’re now seeing domestic thrillers with a sexy edge. </div>
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The conference gives writers the <b>rare opportunity to pitch </b>to agents and publishers, and also freelance editors, all of whom give feedback on your submission. I previously blogged about my experience <a href="http://novelistasink.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/" target="_blank">here</a> and it was through one of these appointments that I got my first book deal with Accent press.</div>
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There’s nothing more exciting than meeting your heroes, and this year’s conference had its fair share of big names in the romance world. </div>
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<b>Jill Mansell</b> talked about her writing method (by hand, with the television on and using post-its to plot ahead), why she likes to use a village setting in her books, and her solution for when she’s stuck with the plot (throw in a new character!). </div>
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And <b>Sarah Morgan</b> and <b>Nicola Cornick</b> gave a workshop on <b>Using Social Media</b> which stressed the importance of engaging with your readers and driving as many followers as possible to your newsletter. (I’m a huge fan of Sarah’s and was very excited to get my book signed after her workshop!)</div>
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There’s the chance to learn or refine your writing skills, with two days packed full of workshops. </div>
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I always find it useful to step away from my novel-in-progress and ask myself questions such as <i>What is your character’s goal?</i> This was one of 10 questions which <b>Fiona Harper</b> gave us in her workshop, <b>Building Characters From the Inside Out,</b> which focused on developing a strong character arc and that inner growth which makes a novel so satisfying to read. </div>
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There’s inspiration everywhere at the conference – in other writers’ success stories, the workshops, in the books which are for sale! How often do you get the opportunity to work with a <b>life coach</b> or learn about <b>screenwriting</b>? </div>
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<a href="https://inspirationcoaching.biz/" target="_blank">Sonia Duggan</a> taught us that our brains are instinctively risk-averse, yet the most exciting ideas usually involve stepping out of our comfort zones. She gave us tips to help us be less fearful in our writing, because if you’re willing to take risks, <b>anything is possible!</b></div>
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There’s nothing more motivating than spending time with writing friends – and making new friends too. </div>
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The RNA is a wonderfully warm community, people are generous with their help and advice, and I’ve always been made to feel welcome. </div>
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I’ve learned that I get more out of the conference if I allow myself breaks, and since Harper Adams University is an agricultural college, I decided to explore the grounds and look for the source of the pungent farmyard smell which permeated everywhere!</div>
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<b>Time out</b> from daily responsibilities is <b>good for the creative mind</b>. It gives you space to breathe, to <b>explore new ideas</b> and be reminded of the important stuff – like your <b>long-term goals and priorities</b>.</div>
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Sophie Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631657785006724034noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-327899218114754732.post-82218063328672930362017-07-07T11:35:00.000+01:002017-07-23T11:35:32.103+01:00Ask Annie...about Regency costume.<i>On the first Friday of each month, Novelista Annie Burrows will be drawing a question out of the jar where we've been putting all the questions about the writing process posed by readers.</i><br />
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"Your heroines wear lovely gowns. Do you make them up, or are they based on actual Regency clothes?"<br />
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OK, well, first of all, if you’ve read any of my books, you will know that I don’t, as a rule, put in a lot of detail about this sort of thing. This is because I think it can detract from the story, and the action going forward if you keep breaking off to spend whole paragraphs describing a room, or an outfit. I tend to use broad brushstrokes to suggest the era, or the scene, or even the clothes, and rely on the reader to fill in the gaps with their own imagination. So that I can concentrate on the emotional inner life of my character, and the action going forward.<br />
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BUT…part of being able to create vivid, believable Regency characters comes from being historically accurate. I have to know all about the background even if all I’m going to do is sketch it in briefly, or it won’t ring true, and will be a far less enjoyable read.<br />
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This is particularly true of clothing. I have to know what a Regency lady would wear, so that love scenes can play out convincingly as the hero removes her garments one by one. I need to know what type of corset she might wear, how her stockings were held up, and whether or not she wore drawers. Not only will this place her firmly within the historical era, but it will also say something about her social status, and her personality, too. Silk stockings, rather than cotton, for example, or a gown that laces up at the back, rather than the front will tell the informed reader (and most readers of Regency are very knowledgeable about the customs of the age) a lot about my heroine without me having to take another couple of sentences explaining whether she is upper or lower class, wealthy or poor.<br />
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I also sometimes zoom in on an outfit a heroine is wearing to help show how she is feeling. “The Captain’s Christmas Bride” for example, opens with the heroine’s friend struggling to do up the laces of her gown. A short cut to telling the reader she has body issues.<br />
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In the opening section of “The Debutante’s Daring Proposal”, the heroine is conscious of her frayed gloves and her muddy boots when the hero strides onto the page looking all expensive and elegant, to emphasise the differences in their social and financial status.<br />
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As on all other topics of Regency life, I have a few favourite books that I frequently consult to give me inspiration, or to help me describe an outfit convincingly.<br />
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Another thing I’ve done is to purchase a reconstruction of a Regency costume, to see what it would feel like to move around in long skirts. I wasn’t surprised that my movements felt a bit restricted compared to the normal jeans and t shirt which are my usual everyday wear. Long skirts are not very practical. By the end of the day the hem was filthy. It seemed to suck up dirt like a hoover. Being cotton, though, it washed very well, and came up good as new. However, it made me realise that keeping clothes clean would indeed need the services of a maid to do the laundry and ironing. How on earth would you have been able to keep your clothes clean without the help of servants in an age without washing machines? Wearing light colours had to have been a symbol of status. Lower class women would surely have chosen darker colours that didn’t need laundering every day, or changing every day at least. So all those debutantes in their pristine white muslin gowns were probably making more of a statement than just about their youth and virginity.<br />
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The underdress could have been worn on its own, but I chose to put on
the top one as well on this day. Once I’d put all three layers on, I
was actually too warm, so had to (shock, horror!) remove the petticoat.
I didn’t buy a corset, since I was only out in Regency garb for fun,
not to go on a re-enacting event where authenticity would have been more
important, but I can imagine that had I been dressed in a shift,
corset, petticoat, underdress and overdress, I would have jolly well
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bonnet and gloves, either. (I did buy a bonnet, but went without the
gloves – shockingly fast of me!) What with all those layers, and a hat and gloves, I felt I could have survived the most inclement weather. Or at least, I could have done with the addition of a spencer (short jacket) or pelisse (long coat) Don’t forget that with full length skirts, you could wear pretty much what you liked underneath and nobody would have seen it.<br />
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So, I do study pictures of what Regency ladies wore, and I’ve spent a day wearing a reconstruction of the type of gown a Regency lady would have worn, so that I know how she would feel in it.<br />
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(I have considered buying my husband some male Regency garb, strictly for research purposes of course, but they are far more expensive than the female attire. Especially the hats.)<br />
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<i>Annie's latest release is "The Debutante's Daring Proposal" in which the heroine wears a variety of costumes which are rather daring, and which cause gentlemen to look at certain parts of her anatomy rather than her face when they are speaking to her.</i><br />
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<i>It is available in paperback and ebook from <a href="http://amzn.to/2toq7Xq" target="_blank">Amazon</a>...<br /> </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This strangely beautiful white teapot came from a jumble sale over thirty years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I started the teapot collection in my early twenties, when I was given an old teapot in the shape of a man wearing a green jacket and flat cap, his arms forming the spout and handle. I loved it, but it turned out to be worth enough money to pay my mortgage for a month at a very difficult time, and since I loved having a roof over my head even more than the teapot, it sadly had to be sold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But there are one or two coffee pots in my collection too, notably this bright yellow one I bought, with matching mugs, brand new in the seventies. </span></div>
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I loved the colour, the clever design and the lovely shape and I fully intended using them - but they proved to be totally impractical. The handles were hollow, which made both pot and mugs hard to clean, and even if you did manage to get your fingers through the handles of the mugs, the hot coffee burned them… That barrel shape was really difficult to drink out of, too. So they were relegated to the display shelf, to be admired but not used – and out they come after every house move, to brighten up a room.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’ve always been a mellow yellow kind of person… Just not a tea drinker!<br />
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<b><span style="color: #674ea7;">The Little Teashop of Lost and Found by Trisha Ashley</span></b></div>
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<i>Alice Rose is a foundling, discovered on the Yorkshire moors above Haworth as a baby. Adopted but then later rejected again by a horrid step-mother, Alice struggles to find a place where she belongs. Only baking – the scent of cinnamon and citrus and the feel of butter and flour between her fingers – brings a comforting sense of home. </i></div>
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<i>So it seems natural that when she finally decides to return to Haworth, Alice turns to baking again, taking over a run-down little teashop and working to set up an afternoon tea emporium. </i></div>
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<i>Luckily she soon makes friends – including a Grecian god-like neighbour – who help her both set up home and try to solve the mystery of who she is. There are one or two last twists in the dark fairytale of Alice’s life to come . . . but can she find her happily ever after?</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(All photos copyright: Trisha Ashley)</span></div>
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</span>Louise Marleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09798055811380557773noreply@blogger.com1