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« Reply #15 on: July 28, 2010, 10:19:46 pm » |
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I can imagine how concerned you must have been. Id have been the same way. 8 weeks is a long time to go without any contact. So August is the date then? Fingers crossed for you!
Im confident that everything will be ok. Ive always liked this site even though I havent been on it all the time over the past four years. I feel that the best thing about it is that its a showcase for new talent; publishing new writers each month and helping them with the actual publishing business. Every writer needs a stepping stone and a hand and I do feel that Spiney does do that although it could do with an extra pair of hands on board!
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« Reply #16 on: July 28, 2010, 10:47:01 pm » |
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Yeah, it's not too good when you are given a release date - last February - a six month overdue period. Laura told me that before last Christmas, but apparently she was wrong in telling me that, and it's been messaged to me months ago that she got the dates mixed up, then she left for another job and I never got to discussing it with her at all. But I suppose late is better than not at all. If any of you find that the forum here is done or isn't working properly and you can't post, copy my email address down and get back to me when you can't use the forum and I'll get straight back to you to let you know what's going on, if anything. email address: patrickfeenan@msn.com. Thank you again for your post. |
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« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2010, 11:06:45 pm » |
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I lost faith a long while ago. It's a shame because the potential is incredible.
I return to check the forum because I enjoy and relish the skill in writing and enthusiasm I have felt from all of you.
But sometimes, things just don't add up, and you all know what I mean.
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« Reply #18 on: July 29, 2010, 03:21:53 am » |
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As stated above:
But considering all the work that goes into a book at any publishers, formatting; publicity; spell checking; layout etc, I have heard that some publishers take up to four years to get a novel off the ground. A friend of mine wrote a book about The Brinks Matt Robbery in New York and it took him between two and three years to get it up and running. and it quickly reached the top ten in a very short time. And knowing that, I am still very confident that my manuscript will reach publication ok, sometime soon. A book of short stories is far different, they can be checked, formatted and published in a short time.
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« Reply #19 on: July 29, 2010, 01:37:30 pm » |
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What's up Patrick, couldn't sleep - 3.21 am - what's that all about, mate?
Good to see you back as well, Herb.
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« Reply #20 on: July 29, 2010, 03:41:26 pm » |
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Hello Waylander:
no, I can sleep ok I'm usually up late finishing something or other. I was telling our friends above there that as well as the manuscript that I sent - funnily enough a year ago this week - in I have another two finished, and am just polishing off the fourth. The hospitals spoiled me when I was in there on and off since 1994, you know peple being brought into the wards in the middle of the night,this has affected me no end!
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« Reply #21 on: July 29, 2010, 04:16:09 pm » |
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Wow, didn't know Laura had gone. That's a shame, she seemed cool. Only spoke few times in emails and that was when the forum was getting back going - that and last year's book. Explains why having problems again though. Yes been here since 2007. We had a lot of fun back then. Forums are hard to build up though as people tend to fade off over time. Shall see, but I don't think I won't keep visiting Spiney.  |
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« Reply #22 on: July 29, 2010, 05:54:01 pm » |
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I know what you mean, Patrick. When I was last in for my back surgery, I lost count of how many times I was woken, either by new patients being admitted or the nurses having a good chinwag at the nurses' station a few feet away - so much for r and r. If it hadn't been for the morphine I don't think I'd have got any shut eye!
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« Reply #23 on: July 29, 2010, 07:08:17 pm » |
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the morphine Jeff! I think I overdosed myself and I didn't know what day is was most of the time. You know when you come out of the operating theatre and they have put a little press button contraption in your hand, and they tell you to press that when you come to again when you feel pain ? When I came too I was lucky enough to be the first, as four others who had operations lay beside me in their beds still out. Not happy days!
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