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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- Reader and unpublished author. I think that just makes me a plain old writer.
- Do You Have A Website?
- No.
- About Me:
- Teacher, writer, reader. Though not in that order. Frequent Domestic Goddess.
- Favorite Books:
- Aargh...where to start. Homer's The Odyssey. Wuthering Heights. David Copperfield. Bleak House. Middlemarch. The Chalet School At War. The Dark Is Rising sequence (all five titles. No, I can't pick just one!) Lord of the Flies. Gormenghast. Anything by Robert Crais. The Ritual Bath. Jasper Fforde's stuff. Janet Evanovich's stuff. The Men and the Girls. Anything by Jilly Cooper. We Have To Talk About Kevin. Oh, there's so many more...
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- Waterstone's on Piccadilly.
Hatchards, also on Piccadilly.
Amazon.
Abebooks.
Victoria Ridley's Blog
Best bookshop in London
and possibly the world, is: Hatchards, on Piccadilly.
I just love it. It's gloriously old-fashioned, unashamedly unchanged. It's possibly the only bookshop on the planet where each customer looks like they've stepped out of the pages of an Agatha Christie novel (not because they look like criminals, though). Fantastic.
Posted on May 31, 2007 at 11:46am —
What makes a book good? (Or, can you ever trust a review?)
This week I did something I rarely do: I gave up on a book.
The title in question was Cecilia Dart-Thornton's The Lady Of Sorrows, the second book of her Bitterbynde Trilogy. I'd speedily gotten through the first book (The Ill-Made Mute) and, obviously, enjoyed it enough to buy its sequel. I even had plans to buy the third book.
Now, I did notice, early on, that Ms Dart-Thornton (CDT), was fond of her d
… ContinuePosted on May 29, 2007 at 3:01am —
The hell of editing...
I don't usually write blog entries on my webpages - I'm not convinced people will be interested by my random utterings - but after just writing a comment on somebody else's webpage, I finally feel motivated to have a kvetch.
Editing. Doesn't it suck? In all of the writing books I've read, on all of the writing courses I've done, nobody's ever come out and said: writing the book is exhilarating, but bottle up the good stuff because bad times are just
… ContinuePosted on May 28, 2007 at 4:23am —
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A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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