...till the first session of the brand new Young Writers group. Despite the fact press releases have gone out, posters and flyers have been distributed, letters have been sent to all previous members and information packs have been sent out to the six most local schools, I am still wondering if anyone will actually turn up! And, as well as all that, there have been the blog entries, tweets, the library have also contacted local schools...it has been a marketing merry-go-round! I keep saying to myself, okay, if no-one turns up, I will let go graciously and move on. If three or four turn up - well, that could be the start of the snowball effect. If too many turn up ... uhm ... Anyway, all will be revealed in time as Laurence Olivier said in Time - the musical many many moons ago! And don't worry - whatever happens on Saturday - I will let all my silent and shy readers know.
Had some kind of good news this morning re The Book. I think the publisher I sent it to a month or so ago is seriously considering taking it. But don't get too excited just yet. When I know it is all for real and going ahead, I will let you know - boy will I!!!! In the meantime, watch this space.
Good news re: The Study. It is about eighty-five per cent done now. The Stephen Kings are all in a neat row on two shelves. The J K Rowlings and Sue Townsends take up another whole shelf as do the classics (sorry - am a sucker for the golden oldies - Dickens, J M Barrie, well, you get the picture; I have very eclectic taste). It is all the others I need to get into some kind of order. But the stationery cupboard is full. My Society of Authors membership certificate is in a frame and so is my letter from Prince Charles about Yucketypoo (yes you read that right), plus numerous inspirational slogans dotted about; my laminated copy of W H Davies' Leisure (my most favourite poem ever). Two whole shelves of my own published work, one and a half shelves where all my diaries and journals are lined up (I started keeping a diary in when I was fifteen), black box files lined up like soldiers on parade Yucketypoo one, two and three, the entire series of Boot and Sock stories once broadcast on local radio, and unpublished titles such as The Tutstwaddle Ghosts and Molly The Magnificent Machine. My entire writing life is in this one room. No wonder I needed to move out of the pocket handkerchief! But I love it and would not change any of it!
So that is where I am right now. In a good place - which is always a good place to be!
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