Not a lot of work on the new book I'm afraid, mainly I've been too preoccupied with work on the boat. However I have been keeping my writing hand in. I think I've had an op-ed piece rejected by an online paper.
Now, you might be thinking 'think it's been rejected?', either it has or it hasn't. Normally I'd agree, but I had a quick response to the submission, in the form of a question about what I'd written. In fact, it pretty much indicated to me that the submissions editor didn't 'get it'. Well that's fine, but I'd rather have a 'sorry but I think your central premiss was rubbish' than a question then no response to my answer. That's why I say I think the piece has been rejected.
No news on the article that was accepted by Latitudes and Attitudes magazine. This week I might drop the editor an email and see if they have any idea of a publication date, the money would come in rather handy about now.
I've been toying with the idea of 'sounding off a bit' on this blog. Well why not, I have to admit to holding some opinions and anyway everybody else seems to get on their soapbox on theirs! I would ask your opinions because I know you're out there. It seems I have a small but regular group of readers spread thinly virtually all round the world, even if nobody feels sufficiently moved to comment.
Can't see why not. Have you thought about republishing a man out of time on amazon with the typos sorted? I did buy it, but before I read it was hoping it might get an update. A bit off topic be following your sailing blog I saw reference to led lighting, have you checked out Fiji based http://www.bebi-electronics.com/.
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Hi Matt,
DeleteI was all set to have the book republished when the publisher pulled out of the contract. The book has been edited and hopefully 'Emma the Agent' will find a new publisher soon. The story and characters are the same and apart from a lack (hopefully!) of typos a reader wouldn't notice anything significantly different. Maybe some passages are tighter now.
I think Bebi is up in Savu Savu. I'll be checking the masthead lights this coming week so I'll know the answer soon. Thanks for your comment.