tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-368860982024-03-07T11:38:58.597+00:00News from the MuseMusings, random thoughts and whimsies when I get the urgeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-58651155641426461272011-09-29T16:00:00.005+01:002011-09-29T16:14:57.413+01:00The Conditions of the Writer@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "Wingdings"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Book idea – check Propose – check Contract, write, publish – check, check, check.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-61269097285847824202011-09-24T11:46:00.006+01:002016-01-03T15:28:50.584+00:00Reading, Writing and Many Red Ticks
Writing for 6th Books
If your knowledge or work falls into 6th Books you know where I am. But, please don’t send me nonsense or start your message with, ‘Can you tell me how to get published? I am desperate to be in print and make millions.’
Also, it doesn’t bode well if your enquiry email is strewn with typos. We all make mistakes. I often end up in a giggly heap reading back my own work Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-4502058377954623852011-08-30T17:09:00.004+01:002011-08-31T09:42:36.894+01:00The Risk of Typecast or What’s in a Name?Who are you? What do you do?Who am I? What do I do? How do you describe yourself? By your name, role in life or your job? How do we define ourselves? Do we even need to? There are books written (usually for women) about finding yourself. The strap is something like; daughter, sister, wife, mother… now it’s time to be you. But, who are you? As the Caterpillar asked Alice. When I became a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-10779076942307445332011-08-03T17:15:00.004+01:002011-08-03T19:22:11.068+01:00Early DaysI mentioned before that the book was here but without the gory details. Now I’ve recovered I can speak properly! Birth date equals publication date if we are keeping with the birthing theme. And, what’s in a date? Babies, books and buses all come when they are ready. O books/John Hunt Publishing is run with an open database system, meaning all authors can check (obsess) (moi?) stages of their Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-91250436346386823942011-07-21T11:02:00.003+01:002011-07-21T11:10:30.885+01:00Roll up! Roll up! It’s only 6 degreesMy copies of, The Psychic Way have arrived. The feeling is amazing when you see your creation ‘in the flesh’ and I want to tell the world. So, I’m telling you and I’d be very grateful if you tell everyone you know. And if they tell everyone they know within 6 teeny tiny degrees of interconnectivity the world will indeed know. Then, all everyone has to do is buy a copy. There! Simples! If you Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-21531654657959716912011-07-07T11:44:00.007+01:002011-07-07T12:07:18.242+01:00Book BirthThe Book Depository tells me there are 50 days until The Psychic Way is released. That’s not long, is it? The process of writing and having a book published is like giving birth with all the same feelings. True, you can be a bit calmer after surviving the first as you know how the process works but although each experience is unique the similarities are there. As labour starts you get an Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-24909036333345022182011-06-18T16:48:00.001+01:002011-06-18T16:50:49.084+01:00Getting Down and Lucky"It just shows what can be done by taking a little trouble," said Eeyore. "Do you see, Pooh? Do you see, Piglet? Brains first and then Hard Work."The House at Pooh CornerYet another person has told me how lucky I am because my husband and I have just returned from a Greek island.Many times luck is mentioned when I talk about writing. One person actually said, “You have a publisher? A real one? Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-70941070553098881152011-03-01T16:30:00.008+00:002011-03-01T17:20:38.112+00:00Sticky and SpookyOnly 5 months since last update - I'm doing well. All is good in Ford Towers. Charlie, ancient tomorrow as she hits 32, is busy incubating her 3rd baby due in May. The little boys are very excited as are the rest of us. Charlie has started a new business called Pretty Delights, link on the left if you're interested. It is an online shop selling many things and they all come beautifully Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-59066420653193399202010-10-15T12:36:00.003+01:002016-01-03T16:05:59.426+00:00BonjourI have had a few urges to update this blog and then I think oh I'll just tweet or facebook.
This time though ...
Right then. What shall I share? Trips?
Mick and I have been to Greece twice this year. The first time we island hopped without anything pre-booked and had a good if hectic time. The second visit was to Skala Eressos, Lesvos. We had the best time and spent a whole week dossing Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-37127108351399632822010-02-16T14:26:00.008+00:002010-02-18T09:25:36.091+00:00Competition now at http://www.barbaraford-hammond.comHeather off of (Scott Mills saying) Twitter suggested a caption competition so here it is. Please put yours in the 'comments'.The winner will win a meditation of their choice for themselves + one for a friend or a copy of Past Life Tourism.Blog readers will know this was from the filming for Discovery Science on future life progression.Will Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-43932604092032112982010-01-10T11:08:00.010+00:002016-01-03T16:10:05.224+00:00Shiny and new
Here we are in 2010, MMX, twenty ten, twenty x, two o one o, 2 thousand and 10 or whatever you might wish to call it.
All around me is snow and I feel coddled by its quiet blanket – the eerie sound of snow is more a sensation isn’t it? Living on the ridge of a hill means we get trapped fairly easily because even though we could slip slide our way out of the village it becomes impossible to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-48645714225057350562009-10-19T18:12:00.007+01:002010-05-22T11:57:35.988+01:00Planes, brains and all very wellBefore I write this post I have been reminded by Mick to give myself an award from our boating holiday. On the 2nd or 3rd lock I got off the boat with my cutlass, no, windlass to take charge of the lock. My brain had turned to absolute mush – this happens when everything slows to river pace and I couldn’t work out which gate to open. I stood looking at it hoping it might tell me if it was full orUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-875790567936375122009-10-17T13:30:00.008+01:002011-04-25T11:18:59.819+01:00Rocking the boatAfter we returned from our trip we were keen to book a boating holiday and so hit the button for a short week on the Oxford Canal.This was a lot of fun. Imagine being in a long cupboard that floats and can reach the rocket speed of 4 miles an hour when there is nothing else about. There is a wonderful sense of freedom that goes with mooring up in the evening wherever you like (pretty much) and, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-69987875273451560532009-08-31T12:15:00.005+01:002010-05-22T11:51:49.767+01:00Shall I tell you where I am?As road trips go ours was rather fine. Setting off 1st thing and heading towards an airport can be misery making but we had a mission and so didn’t mind at all. There was the inevitable jam on the M25 but the time passed listening to Chris Moyles with his guest Peter Jones. The catch phrases from the Dragons’ Den are slowly but surely making their way into everyday language as everyone gets it ifUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-68122356806086871982009-07-26T09:19:00.003+01:002009-10-19T08:57:38.190+01:00It's a jolly holidayThe Random House meeting was informative and a bit irritating all at once. People have funny ideas – mostly anyone that disagrees with me! I was the only author so had a different (warped, maybe) viewpoint.The obvious thing is that the most important people in the book publishing industry: the authors and the readers are expected to flap about at the bottom of pond while everyone else creams off Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-1986664234533916322009-07-07T11:07:00.008+01:002009-07-26T09:55:46.948+01:00Ding DongAfter several months hiatus I have decided to resume the blog. It has stopped, started, moved and chased its own tail but now I feel the stirrings of actual blogging. Recapping from the last (ages ago) post I got the laptop back from Penzance station after several phone calls and a car dash. The car dash wasn’t really necessary in sleepy honest Cornwall but it did accentuate the drama. It had Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-57819737110503897232008-12-17T10:18:00.004+00:002009-02-21T15:07:59.611+00:00Wild thingI am writing this is a cafe in St Ives looking out at the sea twinkling in the winter sunlight. It is idyllic. Getting here was quite an event beginning with the numnut at the railway station printing out the wrong train times.Thinking I had a 2 hour gap between trains at Plymouth I settled with a coffee when along came Eileen who shared that she had a half hour wait until her train to Penzance. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-11233640452176174782008-11-13T12:57:00.001+00:002008-11-13T12:59:22.155+00:00ChangeChanges are occurring. Blog is on a mini-hiatus until there is news too good to not share.Thank you for your patience.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-57725797570920192752008-10-07T10:42:00.000+01:002008-10-07T10:43:44.971+01:00Birth announcementThe new book has now formed in my head and is on route to the writing slate. As I scratch away so many ideas tumble unrestrained from my mind and it makes me wonder where they’ve been until now. Have they been waiting in the wings for their birth? Or is their creation happening as I get the thought? Still raining then?Mick and I whizzed to Cornwall for a few days while the weather was perfect. WeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-82220700341031996842008-09-07T12:31:00.003+01:002008-11-16T09:23:45.682+00:00Wind of changeThe rain, rain, rain, came down, down, downIn rushing, rising, rivlets'Til the river crept out of its bedAnd crept right into Piglet's. A.A. MilneNot just Piglet’s. It’s everywhere. I’m glad we live on the ridge of a hill else we too might be floodier and floodier. We do however get the full force of the wind whipping our sails; well it would if we had Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-70540568268696735822008-08-23T13:11:00.002+01:002008-08-23T13:22:51.361+01:00Back to realityHaving been knocked for six, seven and eight it has taken a while for my brain to switch back on but it seems to be trying a little. The venue for the Past Life Tourism workshops is so perfect and was of course right under my nose! It is at Penny’s, Posh Frocks and Parties in Normandy Street, Alton. The first is on the 5th October and all the information is on my website. It will be lots of fun Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-86238468291010419392008-08-10T10:41:00.002+01:002008-08-10T13:42:56.839+01:00Crowd followingIf you have landed here because my other websites seem to have floated off into the ether here is a comedy moment for you. Old but still funny - Does it show we are all mostly in a trance?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-62938931771865495182008-08-07T11:29:00.002+01:002008-08-07T11:35:48.910+01:00On getting better or at least different ..."The time has come," the Walrus said,"To talk of many things:Of shoes... and ships... and sealing-wax...Of cabbages... and kings...And why the sea is boiling hot...And whether pigs have wings." Lewis CarrollThere it was – life - gently swimming along in a peaceful yet fun way. When bam! Without expectation, encouragement or salacious invitation I got poorly. The mother of all wicked throats put Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-89442541545458234412008-07-21T17:17:00.004+01:002009-07-07T11:56:38.466+01:00Don't take this personallyAnother year and all that. My birthday was absolutely perfect. I had fabulous gifts throughout the day and takeout curry for supper with all my smalls. Charlie was up early putting up balloons and banners inside and out which was a little scary. No age secrets now but at least no one will need to ask.All my recordings are done for my new show on My Spirit Radio. I have a fantastic line-up and it Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36886098.post-47648014753395958792008-07-15T13:39:00.005+01:002009-07-07T11:59:07.914+01:00In the DarkHaving dithered and faffed with the quirks’ of life I am pleased to announce that my show on My Spirit Radio really is on the way. I interviewed Dr Georgina Cannon yesterday who was delightful and a clip from the regression programme that she was involved in was featured on Oprah. Georgina is so delicious I'm not even jealous but am actually thrilled. You will be kept posted when the show airs.MyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com