Blog 56 – Carrots In Erratum – the first person to guess Ms Paige Turner’s intentional fib or error will get a free Creative Ink taster session this week or next and a carrot …
I get Riverford Organic Vegetables. I know that may not have anything to do with writing or making films or book launches – but whoah – steady on – it’s coming.
Every week Guy Watson, owner of Riverford Organic Farms www.riverford.co.uk sends customers an update on how the vegetables are growing. I love reading his missives. I’ve kept the May edition entitled Fickle French Weather in my teaching bag for months and I probably won’t ever part with it. Guy’s May missive laments that awful summer 2012 – which went on and on, of course, and blighted his carrots. He said there had been complaints but that the upside (and there usually is one) was that the courgettes had been intercropped with the parsley and there would be freebies in the box that week. ‘Take it as an apology for the carrots,’ Guy wrote.
Well, after a hugely successful Book Launch of my novel ‘Blackberry Promises’ and a hugely successful film premiere of ‘Dear John, Dear Anyone …’ in the last two weeks, all I can say is please take this as an apology for the incredible clanger on page 207 of my novel. Maybe the printer’s devil was having a laugh at Ms Paige Turner’s intentional errors in this blog.
It was my brand new son-in-law, Master Mind, who pointed out the clanger on the celebratory night of my Book Launch. My daughter, Miss Trial, (so called for newcomers as she is a Criminal Barrister) asked him if he had the EQ of a gnat – but you know something – he was the first person to read my book and say he loved it. For that Master Mind could be forgiven most things – and it had to be said – for the re-run.
So, please, take this as an apology for the carrots.
Well done to Elaine Mulvaney for winning the ‘Dear John, Dear Anyone …’ monologue competition. DVDs available from me at £5.50 to include p&p. Elaine wrote under a pseudonym so you can guess which one won.
‘Blackberry Promises’ – the novel – available from me or on Amazon at £6.99. Please write a review on Amazon – but only if you liked it. Peter Hughes, Jen Dannhauser and Adrian Baker – thank you lovely actors for coming and reading narrative.
New short story comp – theme – Promises – details coming shortly and on my website – up to 2000 words for the British Heart Foundation and Hearts & Souls. BAFTA award winning Holby City producer and EastEnders script writer has agreed to be script consultant.
Creative Ink classes starting second week of Jan, 2 places on Thursdays Get that Book and a few more on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Really good post!