9/10

9/10 – On every blog Ms Paige Turner tells a porkie pie or makes an intentional error. Be the first to spot it and you will get an invite to Dermot Fitzpatrick’s talk at Creative Ink for Writers this coming Thursday 14th February at the Fitzwilliams Centre, Beaconsfield. 11.00am

I’ve never been so pleased to get 9 out of 10 in my whole life. The Marlow Book Club gave MY NOVEL – BLACKBERRY PROMISES 9 out of 10 last Friday on Marlow FM. It was a nail biting moment, I can tell you. Ms Clare Bones, you are flavour of the month.
Creative Ink for Writers has a busy time this coming week. Elizabeth Davey gets a free invite to Dermot Fitzpatrick’s talk on your ‘Acre of Diamonds’ for spotting that it takes place on Valentine’s Day and not Thursday 15th. Elizabeth, where in the world are you? I thought you were in Connetticut.
It’s my author talk on MY NOVEL – BLACKBERRY PROMISES – on Friday 15th February (10.00am) at the newly refurbished Beaconsfield Library. No prizes for spotting that bit of dead wood or tautology in the last sentence as Di Morrish spotted on last bi-month’s ‘nib point’. But I rather like ‘nib point’ so we can all break the rules now and then.
Enrolment forms are out for Creative Ink for Writers’ summer term – both Tuesdays ‘Get Inspired’ and Thursdays ‘Get that Book Out of You’ are running with some places left.
In between terms I will be off to Fish Hoek Scribblers and West Coast Writers in Cape Town and a new adventure for me: improvising with young Africans at the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation in Cape Town. Then it’s back home for Creative Ink for Actors’ 10th reunion shin dig. Where does the time go to we may ask. It goes. It just goes and one minute is equal to the next.
Ms www.silverscreensuppers.com makes me laugh. She made me laugh when she played Zelda Mabs in my play ‘Blackberry Promises’ but I had to smile when I read her posting on my last blog. I asked if anyone read my blog at all and she posted, “I do, dear”. Well, Ms www.silverscreensuppers.com I hope your arm is recovering. We both give an arm and a foot for our Art. And if you don’t get that last joke – read my past blogs.
9 out of 10 for you, Ms www.silverscreensuppers.com

• Beth Granville  fellow journalist chum and Fiona McCready  Dear John finalist have a joint book launch. The Imaginist by Beth and Patchwork by Fiona will be launched at a joint event on Thursday 21 February, at 4 Crowndale Road, NW1 1TT. The event will begin at 7pm and Elizabeth and Fiona will be reading from their books at 8pm.