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Would you like your fifteen minutes of mini-fame? (and a mini-poem)

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I’m going to be doing mini-interviews on my 100 Readers blog, with anyone who’s read the book.

You can read the first one now – Joanna Swainson, mother of three and lovely person. Watch out for her name as I’m sure she’s going to be a well known novelist at some point. She just needs to finish her debut novel first…

My lovely boyfriend has pronounced my lovely blue laptop dead, but he did manage to extract all my urls, email addresses, mail and documents out of it even though I hadn’t backed them up. Thank you lovely boyfriend. As soon as I can think of where to get the money, I’m going to get myself a Macbook Pro. Until then I’m on the PC in the spare room which sounds like an aeroplane.

A little poem to finish. This has been one of those disjointed posts with different stuff. I hope you don’t mind.

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Hold on

An old pop song: the lyrics rise up
from the silted depths intact.

Just when we think we
know it, the world pulls away.

No wonder we hold on tight
to these strings of words.

What is your body telling you?

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I’ve been feeling excited over the weekend as I’d made an impulsive decision to do some extra training.

The course felt like the perfect training for me for a number of reasons. It felt like it would solve a few problems, and bring a great richness to my life over the next two years.

Alongside the excitement butterflies, I was also aware of a different variety. These butterflies didn’t feel so friendly. They felt unsettled, fractious.

I dismissed them and carried on with my plans. This morning, just before I filled in the application form, I got some information which pointed me towards questioning my decision. This little space was enough to let me see how desperately I’d wanted this training to be ‘the answer’. I got suspicious. I realised that it was an attempt to fix something that couldn’t really be fixed.

I might do the training, and I might not, but I’m going to give myself more time and space to decide. Those anxious butterflies were right all along.

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We have our twelfth reader of The Blue Handbag over at 100 Readers – go meet Heather Anastasiu and her lovely pink hair. There’s also a nice little review of the book here, thanks Donna!

Come over to 100 Readers and meet my first reader

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My 100 Readers project is up and running!

Come and meet Michelle McGrane, and then Geoff Sawers on Monday, and listen to them talk about dogs, and Angela Carter, and toddlers, and much much more.

If you could help me spread the word about this project it’d be very much appreciated – maybe you could do a little blog post, or email your friends to let them know?

There’s also a Facebook group here – come and say hello.

You can buy the hardback of the book on Amazon UK now, or sign up to be notified when the paperback is available (end of July-ish). And don’t forget The Letters, my first novel – still only a fiver… I don’t want it to feel left out.

Thank you lovely lovely readers.