Hi all,
Here is the keyword 'Cornwall' for Sam and the Beast of Bodmin Moor. It currently sit at page 58 of 60 pages, so as you can imagine, no one will find it.
I'm going to ask you all a big favor. Here is the link to Sam and the Beast of Bodmin Moor. Can everyone click on the link then click on the book. Take a look, have a read if you wish, but that is all I'm asking then we can see if it rises up the Amazon search engine. If it works for me, it will work for you.
http://amzn.to/1vyaNCm
If you do this for me, I'll reciprocate.
Thanks
Mike
M. P. Ward
P.S. This link has been put through Bitly.com to shorten the link. I tried it from Twitter and it works okay from there at least.
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Sunday Musings: November 30 2014
Hello, Musers!
To our US Muser Family, Happy Thanksgiving weekend. Hope
you've had and are having a great time.
Being Canadian, I celebrate Thanksgiving in October, but the
one thing we have in common is a sense of giving thanks during this time. As
writers one of the major aspects of our careers are our readers. With that in
mind...
...what do our reader responses mean to us?
JEAN
HART STEWART, author
For me readers
response is VERY important. Even you don't agree, the fact that anybody took
the time out of a busy life to bother answering is one big compliment. I love hearing from readers.
K.C.
SPRAYBERRY, author
Reader response is the best feedback I can get. Some readers
leave a short review, just expressing what the book mean to them. Others are
more detailed, going into which characters interested them most and how they
felt about the scenes. At other times, criticism has helped me improve my next
book. Without readers, our books would languish without anyone but us to enjoy
them, so I think appealing to readers is the most important thing to do.
SUSAN
BERNHARDT, author
Reader responses mean everything to me. I love it when
people tell me that they enjoyed my book/books. Personal enjoyment and
satisfaction and readers responses are the greatest rewards that I get from
writing.
BETH
OVERMYER, author
To me, it's nourishment...even the "bad," because
without knowing what's not working, how can I fix it? Also, what Jean said:
it's great that someone took the time out of their busy schedule to a) read my
book and b) comment on it. Readers make this whole crazy process more
worthwhile than if I were just writing for myself, and hearing from them always
makes my day!
PAULINE
(P.M) GRIFFIN, author
I treasure reader responses and always answer every comment
and question I receive. Some individuals ask for considerable detail and raise
significant points that lead to a series of complex communications. I have
included some suggestions in the later volumes of my series.
That a person reads my work and thinks enough of it to
contact me about it is a great honor. I hope I shall continue to be worthy of
it.
DAWN KNOX,
author
So far, I've only had good reviews for 'Daffodil and the
Thin Place'. All the responses have all been unsolicited, so I've been
thrilled.
I get a bit embarrassed if people tell me face to face but I
still really appreciate it. I can't bring myself to ask anyone what they think
of the book as I always assume if they like it they'll tell me and if they
don't they'll keep quiet. However, I'm prepared for people to respond
negatively at some point and I tell myself that it's just a matter of taste and
if someone doesn't like my book, that's fine, but when it happens, I know I
will be hurt.
On 6th December, the first script that I've ever written for
a dramatisation will be performed and I
imagine that I will be able to see people's responses in their faces! That's
going to be interesting!
Thanks for joining us and see you next week!
If you have a question or comment you’d like us to muse upon, do
not hesitate to contact me Christine
Steeves-Speakman at MuseChrisChat@gmail.com
Friday, November 28, 2014
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Pretences. Annabelle runs away from school into the arms of a charismatic
gentleman…but can she trust him to help her?
Far
Beyond Rubies When their eyes first meet, Gervaise’s soul recognises
Juliana’s and from that moment on, their destinies become inevitably entwined.
Sunday’s
Child If Major Tarrant expects Sunday’s Child, a Regency lady, to be a
‘bread and butter’ Miss he will be surprised.
Tangled
Love The throne has been usurped by James II’s daughter and son-in-law,
Mary and William of Orange. In 1693, loyal to his oath of allegiance, ten
year-old Richelda’s father must follow James to France.
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Historical Accuracy
This method might be of interest to readers and writers.
I've reached a complicated chapter in my novel in which I need the geographical features, proposed plans and timeline to be correct. I read the relevant parts of five historical non-fiction books and made notes, but I still didn't have a clear picture in my head. So, after considerable thought, I wrote chapter headings and typed up the relevant information under each titl3. Next I made a list of things my protagonists would do, and their reactions to events as they occurred in sequence, in each chapter and finished by typing up a few quotes from historical personages.
For the last three days I've been working on Chapter Thirty-One. Thanks to my notes everything, as the saying goes, has fallen into place.
I've reached a complicated chapter in my novel in which I need the geographical features, proposed plans and timeline to be correct. I read the relevant parts of five historical non-fiction books and made notes, but I still didn't have a clear picture in my head. So, after considerable thought, I wrote chapter headings and typed up the relevant information under each titl3. Next I made a list of things my protagonists would do, and their reactions to events as they occurred in sequence, in each chapter and finished by typing up a few quotes from historical personages.
For the last three days I've been working on Chapter Thirty-One. Thanks to my notes everything, as the saying goes, has fallen into place.
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Sunday, November 23, 2014
Sunday Musings: November 23 2014
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Miss One Sunday and Pepper-kitten takes over |
Hey, hey, there Muser Friends and Family!
Sorry for missing you last week, but the bronchitis plague
hit my household and knocked all three adults out for the count. Yup, flat out
on our butts with only the tween healthy and active. Can't say we're all
bouncing back in perfect health, but at least I can see straight again.
So, last week's musings is this week's musings and next will
be this...uhm, yeah, let's just forget all that and go for this writing
exercise:
Describe a non-descript street, building, person, or meal.
We'll title this one...make the boring worth reading
On your mark, get set, go.............
MARGARET
FIELAND, author
The stone buildings, grayed with the grime of fifty years,
hung over the narrow sidewalk. The sky held the last of the light as a stray
ray of sunshine slanted through a gap in the wall of buildings. Through the
opening, Lydia spied a courtyard. She stopped to stare at the bright red and
blue striped umbrella which shaded a redwood picnic table flanked by two
benches.
What was it doing here? Yesterday when she'd passed by on
her way home from work the courtyard had been empty. She move closer to get a
better view. On the ground, a heap of broken dishes and the remains of several
sandwiches already being fought over by a flock of pigeons.
And a body. If Lydia wasn't mistaken, a dead body. What
should she do now?
DAWN KNOX,
author
Swirls of yellow grease trailed behind Jenny’s spoon as she
trawled through the lamb stew, searching for something that looked vaguely
edible.
“Stop playing with your food, Child!” snapped Aunt Sophie,
“hasn’t your mother ever told you it’s bad manners?”
“Sorry, Aunt. I’m not feeling too well…” said Jenny, hopeful
that she’d be excused.
“Well, eat up. There’s nothing of you, Child. No wonder
you’re so peaky.”
Jenny sighed. There would be no escape from the lamb stew.
Lamb spew, she thought with disgust.
When Mother had delivered her at Aunt Sophie’s an hour ago,
the house was redolent with the smell of cooking. Not like the delicious aromas
that filled Mother’s kitchen. No, this was the stink of cheap ingredients being
boiled to oblivion - and beyond.
“I’ll be as fast as I can,” Mother had whispered when she
kissed Jenny goodbye.
Hurry up, please! thought Jenny.
A piece of potato stood above the gravy, like a volcano
rising out of the sea. She couldn’t imagine how it had retained its shape after
being stewed to submission. Certainly most of the other vegetables had turned
to an unrecognisable mush - their colour and consistency having leached away.
Jenny fished out the potato lump and held it against the side of the bowl to
allow the grease to slide back into the gravy. She placed it gingerly in her
mouth where it spontaneously collapsed to an oily, texture-less sludge and she
swallowed quickly, fighting the urge to gag.
The more she moved her spoon through the gravy, the more the
vegetables disintegrated into an amorphous, grey slop. She hadn’t considered
the similarity between the two words ‘Grey’ and ‘Gravy’ before, but now, she
stared into the ‘Grey-vy’, wondering how much longer she could just move it
about before Aunt Sophie got cross.
A piece of meat bobbed to the surface and Jenny scooped it
up in her spoon. Like the gravy, it too, was grey, with a knobbly vein of
gristle running through it and she buried it quickly beneath the sludge.
“Come on, Child. What is the matter with you? There’ll be no
dessert unless you eat up every scrap of your lunch.”
Well, there was a silver lining, Jenny decided. At least she
wouldn’t have to eat the glutinous, frog spawn-like tapioca pudding she spotted
earlier in the kitchen.
MARY-JEAN
HARRIS, author
It was a miserable day for dog-walkers. The sky was a
massive stretch of motionless grey clouds. The fall leaves were dull yellow and
splotched with black. The sidewalk and the sky might have been one and the
same, and the only vibrancy was the contrast that a brick wall made with the
drab world surrounding it. There was no wind, no motion, and the world might
well have been a sigh frozen in space.
No one was out, that is, except for Henry. Henry, the dog
who walked alone.
SUSAN
A. ROYAL, author
The knob rattled, and the hinges squealed when the door was
opened, allowing daylight to creep across dusty, worn floorboards. A young
couple stood in the doorway, the dust motes dancing in the must air making them
sneeze.
The young man stepped across the room, raised the blinds to
let in more light, and the shadows retreated under the shabby couch where they
lurked, waiting. To the right was a tiny kitchen and through the door on the
left a small bedroom, leading to an even smaller bathroom.
He turned to the girl with hesitation. “What do you think?”
“It’s perfect.” She smiled and linked her fingers through
his. “Our first home.”
Thanks for joining us and see you next week!
If you have a question or comment you’d like us to muse upon, do
not hesitate to contact me Christine
Steeves-Speakman at MuseChrisChat@gmail.com
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