Member: cayman

I just acquired Sophie's Choice a couple of days ago and have not yet started reading it. I bought it based on strong reviews from here on LT and another message board I frequent.

posted by BritAnnia at 8:16 am (EST) on May 28, 2009

Happy (belated) birthday!

posted by BritAnnia at 10:03 pm (EST) on May 24, 2009

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your message. I understand about the pressures of moving.

We moved house last year. We were renting and Natalie was 7 months pregnant when our landlords (the wife actually - she did the dirty work in that family)told us they were selling the house and we had to move out. We had been renting that house for 6 years to top that off.

That was the time I was supposed to be checking the edits of Beckwood Brae. I also have my own business which has been a struggle. So all in all I did the best I could checking the editing but there were a lot of mistakes the editors missed. With the wisdom of hindsight I would have delayed the production schedule and fixed all the typos and odd spellings. That is not so easy when you are a first time author with a deadline of three weeks from the time you receive the edited manuscript back. I had a struggle to fix the rewrites they wanted without re-reading the manuscript for typos as well.

If you can believe it the typesetter even made mistakes in the final version and we had to send it back several timed to fix problems in the chapter headings.

With the next book, I will take the time and delay production if required.

But to the story, Chris... You do exaggerate. The climax of the story took more than one sentence. It took at least three. And...how many sentences does it take to kill a bad guy anyway. And...as you correctly guess, the bad guys are not finished yet. Surely I had taken enough time developing the whole fatherhood theme for the climax of the story to make sense. I develop that more in the next book as well

I am thinking of sending out some(carefully eddited)extracts of Arion to people in LT for comment before long. The main story line is finished but I am busy linking in all the sub-plots.

I will be very keen to know what you think.

I did like your feedback and the fact that you went easy on the typos. I am very sensitive about those and have a corrected master for the second edn. almost complete

Please stay in touch.

I see you are reading, The Shack. Let me know what you think. It is an interesting book. I understand what Young was trying to do but the line between shocking people out of their pre-conceived ideas and taking too many liberties with important, to say nothing of hard-won theological understandings was a difficult one for me. I'm keen to know what you think.

Dave

posted by DavidHWebb at 5:42 pm (EST) on Apr 5, 2009

Thank you Cayman! May you and yours be blessed this Christmas as well, and throughout the New Year. :)

posted by MrsLee at 10:04 pm (EST) on Dec 23, 2008

Cayman, thankyou for your encouragement.

posted by nitnat at 6:58 pm (EST) on Dec 8, 2008

*waves* I haven't stopped by to say hi for awhile, how's everything going?

posted by MrsLee at 5:14 pm (EST) on Nov 2, 2008

Not Mozart, who did play the harpsichord as a very young child, but was a performing star at the piano thereafter, and composed his keyboard works (concertos, sonatas, chamber music, etc.) for the piano. The harpsichord was the dominant stringed keyboard instrument from the early 1600s (though invented much earlier) to just past the middle of the 1700s, when the early piano had been improved enough to be reliable when used in public performances. After about 1790, nobody composed for the harpsichord until the beginning of the 20th century, when there was a revival of interest in the harpsichord. Some very good music has been composed for harpsichord in the past hundred years,

The greatest composers of harpsichord music in the Baroque style appeared during the later years of the Baroque period, from about 1685 until about 1760. They included Bach in Germany, Francois Couperin and Rameau in France, and Domenico Scarlatti, an Italian who spent most of his creative years in Spain.

posted by vw1 at 12:25 am (EST) on Oct 19, 2008

The movie that that particular picture is from is Attila the Hun. he is gorgeous in this film. And please please, if you love Celtic romances..you will LOVE Outlander. It's set in Scotland and the majority says that they feel Gerard Butler would be the perfect Jamie. Read it and let me know what you think.
MD

PS. You being the lover of natural healing, I know Outlander is for you!

posted by MDLady at 5:56 pm (EST) on Jul 29, 2008

Thank you for the warm welcome to the Green Dragon! I think I will like it here!
--BJ

posted by billiejean at 1:00 pm (EST) on Jul 29, 2008

That little pic was Scottish actor Gerard Butler. He looks so much nice with facial hair.
;)

posted by MDLady at 7:14 am (EST) on Jul 29, 2008

Thanks!

posted by tanstaafl at 4:10 pm (EST) on Jul 24, 2008

Tales Part 2 has been delayed since i've been working all week on the All Star Game; now that it is over I would imagine this weekend I'll be ready to move forward!

posted by mrgrooism at 10:43 pm (EST) on Jul 16, 2008

Agree, we know who our friends are. Making it "official" is nice and silly but unnecessary!

posted by mrgrooism at 10:30 pm (EST) on Jun 26, 2008

Sorry I missed you cay. I was talking on skype and not checking the chat room. Maybe next time :)

posted by dreamlikecheese at 6:14 pm (EST) on Mar 28, 2008

We've had Mango Lassi at Indian restaurants. . . don't know how widely it is enjoyed, but we love it and hope you will too.

posted by Esta1923 at 12:08 am (EST) on Jan 24, 2008

Do you ever make Mango Lhassi? Into blender put mango and youghurt. . . .delicious!

posted by Esta1923 at 12:23 pm (EST) on Jan 20, 2008

Welcome to The Green Dragon, Christine!

posted by buchleser at 10:18 pm (EST) on Jan 15, 2008

Hello!...sorry to take so long before recognising your letter. My purchase of books has slowed up somewhat and I have less need to access this site. Emu Pk is near Brissy?..hope you don't get it too rough down there...could be a problem this weekend for me, as I'll be heading into Townsville Friday..just for the day but it's a worry that I won't get back if the rains too heavy...What's the "Christian healing" you mention that's of interest to you?..regards, E

posted by Reconciled1 at 10:23 am (EST) on Jan 2, 2008