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Blog postHonestly and truly, I don’t know what led me to think I could write this memoir, edit it and publish it by the beginning of 2019. Now it is almost May and I have so far only managed to edit and rewrite the first opening chaper – or maybe it’s a Forward – about a hundred times. Now I realise I have to write and Afterword. (Or should it be an Afterward, because it is that too). So I have spent weeks angsting about whether or not to send the current draft out for comments but I haven’t done it.
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Blog postGerman/American journalist and writer Michael Scott Moore had authored a novel and a history of surfing, Sweetness and Blood, when he received a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting to carry out research for a book on Somali piracy in late 2011.
Somali Pirates use bizarrely wrecked boats This is the kind of thing even a truly daft anthropologist wouldn’t try, but he seems to have had an even greater degree of belief in his own invulnerability.
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Blog postIn my last post I mentioned that I was seeking permission to use two lines from a country and Western song sung by Ernest Tubb in 1959 as an opener for my memoir. I still haven’t heard anything back from the copyright holders, a large transnational organisation which holds copyright on a huge number of songs.
This has led me to further musings on copyright as a concept and practice. There are many countries in the world which appear to have no copyright laws or if they do, they don’t -
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Blog postErnest Tubb sang “River of Regret” in 1959. For reasons only a psychoanalyst could clearly state, I don’t seem able to get this book finished. I have promised to send it out to the family members who are mentioned in it for their comments and permission to use their real names. I have asked the designer to stand by to do the covers. I have promised myself it is #1 on the priorities list. But no matter what I do I just can’t get it to a point where I can send it out.
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Blog postSo my memoir of the year my mother and my ex-husband died is almost finished. Procrastinating about sending it out to the family and trying to do the final edits. Every time I open the file I find myself making changes, not just a few, but a lot. I still don’t feel clear about it. And the question of the title has been holding things up. From the start, the working title was A Dying Year. Feedback? Oh, that sounds so sad/distressing/upsetting. And who is dying? Is it you? Is this yet another
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Blog postI am very close now to getting the memoir finished. Here’s the draft cover. There are a few different variants. Keith my designer will finalise it. I am so grateful to talented Western Australian photographer Jordan Cantelo for his generous permission to use his photograph Ocean Horizon for the cover image. Visit his site to see more of his outstanding work at http://jordancantelo.com/
The title has changed to Regret Horizon and there are several reasons for that. I sent a semi-final -
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Blog postSo here it is, two days to Christmas, and the Memoir project remains incomplete. But an end is in sight.
All the issues raised in The Write Nook post on “Writing Your Own Story” are so true. Thanks so much for that.
https://writenook.wordpress.com/2015/10/01/writing-your-own-story/
So Volume 1, Regret Horizons, is almost ready. A cover design is underway with final elements to be provided by Keith. The text is written. After going through the issues haunting Knausgaar -
Blog postWhen I first started learning how to publish on Kindle it was such a struggle. I wrote quickly and fluently, I was a great typist and could use Word with my eyes shut, but the next steps – getting the manuscript right for the various platforms, understanding how to format, what was involved in covers – not to mention ISBNs and uploading and getting manuscripts to conform to arcane and mysterious requirements proved baffling, frustrating and humbling. I was just getting the hang of it when li<
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Blog postRecently my small publication company had offers from several sources to arrange reviews for its Kindle books for an unspecified price. “At least forty reviews” one promised. This is unconscionable. Reviews have become a major element in the success or otherwise of Kindle books, especially those of otherwise unknown authors. I’ve often wondered at the frequently inane and disconnected reviews that turn up for many new titles giving them five stars. Obviously these are not validated purchasers
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Blog postI haven’t posted for a while because I’ve been engaged in a horrible torture which I hadn’t at all expected. No, it’s not another medical procedure, it’s a legal issue, and it’s resulted in weeks of inability to move forward, more drastic editing, and the emergence of a totally new and unexpected project which I can say nothing at all about here, now or ever, well, for the forseeable future anyway.
I have to thank Karl Ove Knausgaard once again.
Karl Ove Knausgaard 2011
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Blog postGo to the ABOUT page for information about how to purchase the print version . Paypal service will be restored shortly after a redesign of the purchase interface.
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Blog postSo many wonderful positive reviews I have been receiving for the Priceless Princess. I gave out a number of paperbacks as presents, or just for fun to people I valued, for their children. I didn’t ask anyone to send a review, so receiving them has been such a pleasure. I’ve been putting copies of the reviews on this website (See Reviews ). I was thrilled by Kristen’s suggestion. She said:
“I do hope you will write more for this age group. Quite frankly there is such ru -
Blog postClick on the tab above to read how the writing of the Priceless Princess came about.
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Blog postIn putting together the section on Animals and Birds in the Priceless Princess I have had to request permission to use a number of images because they are not in the public domain. Reproducing a photograph or drawing after a Google search is very easy but it is illegal to use any images other than those already located in the public domain, as in Wiki Commons and some other sources. So, I want to thank the great photographers who have agreed already (I will give them full attribution in the s
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Blog postThe Priceless Princess is available now as an e-book or in print/paperback. Go to the Page called “The Writing of the Priceless Princess” to find out more about the story, and to learn about the author and her grandchildren, who inspired it. Purchasing details are on the ABOUT page.
Special offer: purchase a signed copy with a personal message from this website posted anywhere in Australia for A$12.95.
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Blog postKeith Draws Click on the tab with this name on the banner above to read more about how the process of illustration worked for this book.
I needed a visual concept for the central character, Princess Sophie. My granddaughter Lulu is very blonde with blue eyes and pink skin. Pretty much what you would expect for a Princess. But I have another grand-daughter, Lulu’s cousin Lily, who has bright red hair and eyes that are brown but sometimes almost green. What an enterprising brave -
Blog postEastern Grey Wallaby with joey in pouch “Wildlife” is a word used to describe creatures – animals, birds, fish – who exist in their own right, in their own world, with their own rhythms and behaviours which have not been directed by human desires. Until around 8-10,000 years ago, all animal life was “wild” and we could say human life was “wild” as well. The process of domestication took existing creatures and, in various ways, changed them to suit the needs of humans. Some species seem
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