Wednesday, March 16, 2005
More good news
Hi everyone - I'm really excited to be able to post that a fellow member of the RNA has very generously donated the cost of a year's membership to the RNA to our comp so that now we have two RNA annual memberships to award. My friend wishes to remain anonymous - but you may be sure that I have thanked her for her wonderful generosity. I can't stress enough how valuable membeship of the RNA is - especially for as yet unpublished authors to whom membership gives the opportunity to enter the New Writers' Comp and have their work evaluated. So please do enter the comp.
My other exciting news is that a good friend of mine, and fellow member of the RNA has been asked to submit her synopses to HMB, PLUS one of the members of our Nantwich Writers Group has been asked to submit 3 chapters to HMB.
I was so impressed by the opening pages she sent to me to read that I read them over the phone to my editor - she was equally excited, so now I am keeping my fingers crossed that this really promising start leads on to publishing success.
Every single member of the Nantwich Writers Group can write - and write well, but as we all know reaching publication depends on more than being able to write - my goal is to advance my group as far along the road to publication as I can, and this is a truly wonderful start.
The RNA University Challenge team are through to the semi finals - they out scored the other teams in their 'block' by over one hundred points, and we celebrated here in Cheshire with a small party - members of the Cheshire Chapter of the RNA, members of the Nantwich Writers Group and Anita Burgh (a well known author who currently lives in the Cotswolds) and her husband Billy who had come up to Manchester to watch the University Challenge show being filmed and who stayed with me over the weekend.
Sheba - Sheba is in big trouble. i was on the phone to my sister the other night and Sheba was lying at my feet, crunching something. Crunching? She had stolen the ornamental butterfly from the hearth, carried it over to
where I was and was happily chewing it. Fortunately I managed to rescue it before either she or it suffered any damage.
Penny
My other exciting news is that a good friend of mine, and fellow member of the RNA has been asked to submit her synopses to HMB, PLUS one of the members of our Nantwich Writers Group has been asked to submit 3 chapters to HMB.
I was so impressed by the opening pages she sent to me to read that I read them over the phone to my editor - she was equally excited, so now I am keeping my fingers crossed that this really promising start leads on to publishing success.
Every single member of the Nantwich Writers Group can write - and write well, but as we all know reaching publication depends on more than being able to write - my goal is to advance my group as far along the road to publication as I can, and this is a truly wonderful start.
The RNA University Challenge team are through to the semi finals - they out scored the other teams in their 'block' by over one hundred points, and we celebrated here in Cheshire with a small party - members of the Cheshire Chapter of the RNA, members of the Nantwich Writers Group and Anita Burgh (a well known author who currently lives in the Cotswolds) and her husband Billy who had come up to Manchester to watch the University Challenge show being filmed and who stayed with me over the weekend.
Sheba - Sheba is in big trouble. i was on the phone to my sister the other night and Sheba was lying at my feet, crunching something. Crunching? She had stolen the ornamental butterfly from the hearth, carried it over to
where I was and was happily chewing it. Fortunately I managed to rescue it before either she or it suffered any damage.
Penny
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I loved reading the Writer's Group comments - any chance of becoming a member? I live near Nantwich and my first novel is doing the rounds of the agents at the moment. I have written 27k words of my second novel but am feeling lonely!
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