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ELIZA says...
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sue cole says...
sorry couldn't make launch, your mum and Lynda tell me it was a wonderfyl evening waiting for my copy from Amazon I have read your reviews you must be feeling very proud of yourself
take care
love Sue
Thanks Sue, sorry you missed it. I enjoyed it very much..
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sue cole
02:35 PM on October 01, 2010
sorry couldn't make launch, your mum and Lynda tell me it was a wonderfyl evening waiting for my copy from Amazon I have read your reviews you must be feeling very proud of yourself
take care
love Sue
take care
love Sue
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me
04:58 AM on December 08, 2009
Elizabeth Sarkany says...
I had to tell you that your blog has cheered me up no end in all sorts of ways. I can't say how encouraging I found it that 'King' was rejected (was it by Grasslimb, I can't remember) since it is one of my all-time favourite stories - properly moving, poetic and accomplished - and your collection sits between Carver and Janet Frame on the shelf of books next to my desk that I read when I'm stuck and wordless.
Wow, I'm speechless - between Carver and Janet Frame. That's gone to my head! Thanks Elizabeth. Yes I used to feel like sending the stories back to the mags with a pair of glasses attached. My blog is a way of having the last word. I could paper my walls with rejections - at least I could when they were in paper format. You just have to keep sending stuff. It is odd how mags work. Unfathomable. After a good nineties where most everything I did was published I then had a run of years in the noughties where nothing was accepted. I felt I was finished, but luckily things are beginning to change now. I'm glad my experience has helped you - keep sending the stuff out.
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Elizabeth Sarkany
07:39 AM on December 04, 2009
I had to tell you that your blog has cheered me up no end in all sorts of ways. I can't say how encouraging I found it that 'King' was rejected (was it by Grasslimb, I can't remember) since it is one of my all-time favourite stories - properly moving, poetic and accomplished - and your collection sits between Carver and Janet Frame on the shelf of books next to my desk that I read when I'm stuck and wordless.
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ian burton
06:27 AM on October 27, 2009
just to say I've been roaming around your website and I'd love a copy of the photo of you on the beach ! that's what you looked like when you were at Newton Park ! speak to you soon, love, Ian
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René Ghosh
05:48 PM on October 24, 2009
Read "Background Noise" as well. Excellent writing, really gritty and real. I would have liked to read more about what the narrator imagines the dead man's life to have been. The image of him kissing his children's heads was poignant.
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Alan
07:01 AM on October 15, 2009
[René Ghosh]
Thanks Rene, I'm glad you enjoyed the story. There's another one of mine on there too, I hope you like that (although it deals with a much nastier situation).
Thanks Rene, I'm glad you enjoyed the story. There's another one of mine on there too, I hope you like that (although it deals with a much nastier situation).
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René Ghosh
04:15 AM on October 15, 2009
Just read "The Heebie-Jeebies" over at http://www.short-stories.co.uk/. I really enjoyed the way the narrator's memories of his ex-lover are intertwined with music references. Altogether a fascinating read. You never find out exactly what happened the day he got the heebie-jeebies and that creates a pit of mystery. I also enjoyed the kids throwing eggs at the walls of the house, like barbarians at the gates of a decadent Rome.
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