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ON THE SIDELINES SUMMER 2004
Aug 13th 2004
Aug 13th 2004
Hello, and welcome to another look at what is languishing round the periphery of our esteemed editor's office/world/authors and waistline.
For starters, one of the rewarding things to happen is that more than a couple of our authors are coming back to us for publication of their SECOND book, which means we're doing a few things right (if not everything!).
Another exciting development is the company expects to publish the autobiography of a famous singing star of the Sixties era, Frank Ifield, no less. We had the pleasure of meeting him the other day whilst he was over on a U.K. visit from Australia, and all I can say is plans are afoot, so watch this space.
Two of our female authors are making their mark at the moment. Rabina Khan has featured in the July edition of Writers Forum. "Rainbow Hands", which took her just over one year to write, has been taken on by a Literary Agent, paving the way for increased publicity and sales. Her novel is set in the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets, London, and looks at our multi-cultural society with its surrounding problems and prejudicial attitudes.
Also "The Water Garden" by Sally Dalglish, a poetry book, has had a good review from the Cumberland News and her wonderful illustrations featured in it are presently in The Bluebell Bookshop, Penrith-all 18 of them. This will be followed by a larger exhibition in Castle Street, Carlisle, in the first week of August. Well done Sally, and we hope your book sales went well at Glastonbury. All proceeds of sale go to Water Aid, a charity close to the author's heart. Her wish is to see a universal reverence for water.
Glastonbury and water sit very much together, as I know to my cost when the editor returned from his trip to the hallowed site with 90% of his belongings and camping gear bespattered with Wiltshire mud. If only it could talk! No…. perhaps not. It took days to remove and luckily the weather was with us for drying out purposes. Back in the office he is working long and hard these days, with early morning starts becoming his set pattern. (Does he actually go to bed?)
Fresh from a major triumph in the Suffolk Drama Festival as the barrister in John Mortimer's "The Dock Brief" and then a brief appearance in Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men", he proceeds with his Am - Dram activities taking on the production of "When We Are Married" by J.B.Priestley which is SO ironic as he will be treading that path himself in a few months time.
The waistline teeters on re-expansion, the Atkins Effect having peaked too early! What to do? Will the bridegroom's outfit cut the mustard with this brinkmanship of weight control? The jazzy waistcoat will obviously disguise a multitude of gastronomic sins.
Anyway, he will definitely look the part, dear reader, and who knows, you may even get a photograph. Eat your heart out Hello Magazine.
For starters, one of the rewarding things to happen is that more than a couple of our authors are coming back to us for publication of their SECOND book, which means we're doing a few things right (if not everything!).
Another exciting development is the company expects to publish the autobiography of a famous singing star of the Sixties era, Frank Ifield, no less. We had the pleasure of meeting him the other day whilst he was over on a U.K. visit from Australia, and all I can say is plans are afoot, so watch this space.
Two of our female authors are making their mark at the moment. Rabina Khan has featured in the July edition of Writers Forum. "Rainbow Hands", which took her just over one year to write, has been taken on by a Literary Agent, paving the way for increased publicity and sales. Her novel is set in the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets, London, and looks at our multi-cultural society with its surrounding problems and prejudicial attitudes. Also "The Water Garden" by Sally Dalglish, a poetry book, has had a good review from the Cumberland News and her wonderful illustrations featured in it are presently in The Bluebell Bookshop, Penrith-all 18 of them. This will be followed by a larger exhibition in Castle Street, Carlisle, in the first week of August. Well done Sally, and we hope your book sales went well at Glastonbury. All proceeds of sale go to Water Aid, a charity close to the author's heart. Her wish is to see a universal reverence for water. Glastonbury and water sit very much together, as I know to my cost when the editor returned from his trip to the hallowed site with 90% of his belongings and camping gear bespattered with Wiltshire mud. If only it could talk! No…. perhaps not. It took days to remove and luckily the weather was with us for drying out purposes. Back in the office he is working long and hard these days, with early morning starts becoming his set pattern. (Does he actually go to bed?)
Fresh from a major triumph in the Suffolk Drama Festival as the barrister in John Mortimer's "The Dock Brief" and then a brief appearance in Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men", he proceeds with his Am - Dram activities taking on the production of "When We Are Married" by J.B.Priestley which is SO ironic as he will be treading that path himself in a few months time.
The waistline teeters on re-expansion, the Atkins Effect having peaked too early! What to do? Will the bridegroom's outfit cut the mustard with this brinkmanship of weight control? The jazzy waistcoat will obviously disguise a multitude of gastronomic sins.
Anyway, he will definitely look the part, dear reader, and who knows, you may even get a photograph. Eat your heart out Hello Magazine.
