tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8842068856716111407.post5726330707382882336..comments2023-10-17T13:46:28.121+01:00Comments on reading, writing, rocrastination: Anemone Kitson: Undercover Mermaidrocrastinatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04730633659545562563noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8842068856716111407.post-24913591668948060632007-09-29T13:25:00.000+01:002007-09-29T13:25:00.000+01:00MG - cheers! (Do ignore the cover mock in there, ...MG - cheers! (Do ignore the cover mock in there, btw: was a very early and deeply ugly first draft, but was all they had by the print deadline.) <BR/><BR/>Saw Invisible City in the catalogue too: AWESOME packaging. Can't wait to get dibs on it!<BR/><BR/>Deep in throes of editing so failing to reply/read your daughter's stuff/etc but we WILL do coffee next week, when I am freed from the laptop shackles...rocrastinatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04730633659545562563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8842068856716111407.post-22317642272651917882007-09-29T13:21:00.000+01:002007-09-29T13:21:00.000+01:00Jess - think you missed out on one or two lovely t...Jess - think you missed out on one or two lovely things (like the waitress and Hiro...oh, so lovely) from Heroes. The crucial thing is that there are only a handful of the characters you actually give a toss about (Claire, Hiro, um...oh, Matt's quite huggable), so what's happening with Eden and the painting guy and Mohinder etc is all quite ignorable. I quite love it, though. <BR/><BR/>The mermaid IS part of the rewrites, honest! One of those 'justifying adding something at the end by putting it in from the start' kind of things. No idea if it works, of course.rocrastinatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04730633659545562563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8842068856716111407.post-66466234583559135572007-09-28T16:42:00.000+01:002007-09-28T16:42:00.000+01:00Hey Susie, was down at our publishers today and I ...Hey Susie, was down at our publishers today and I read the little excerpt of your book that's in the SCB catalogue for next season. It looks brill - I laughed out loud! You are the new Louise Rennison, I reckon! Can't wait to buy it for J (and read it myself!).MGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18160452118666847270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8842068856716111407.post-63227480451224754732007-09-27T09:37:00.000+01:002007-09-27T09:37:00.000+01:00Wah! Also missed Conchords, as for some reason we ...Wah! Also missed Conchords, as for some reason we can't get BBC4 here in Penarth. I'm not sure if this is another of those oddities, like everything being on S4C two days later than Channel 4, or whether it's just that our aerial is pointing in the wrong direction. Unfortunately it's rather less accessible than it was in our flat, so I won't be whizzing ontot he roof to waggle it about. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, I loved the Youtube clip, so thanks for that. <BR/><BR/>I did Watch Telly though (!) with two episodes of Heroes. I found it very odd that having watched the first two episodes last week, and then missed the subsequent six of the 'catch up night', I still knew more or less what was going on. Do they write these things cleverly so that you think things are happening and they're not, or is it that they build in helpful 'Ah yes, she was a spy' pointers so you can work out what you've missed. I was intrigued.<BR/><BR/>I like the sound of the mermaid, but aren't you meant to be doing edits?Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15328155443064687967noreply@blogger.com