Showing posts with label Soap-box. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soap-box. Show all posts
DENMARK TO UK IN RECORD TIME!!!
Saturday, 22 December 2012
That record was not the speed and ease of Felix Baumgarters, no quite contrary. Sitting on a runway for the near entirety of the actual flight time and the welcoming committee of "FIRST GREAT WESTERN." If there are any marketing people about please pitch to the "OH SO WISE executives of this ******* rail operator" about their NAME.
1) Never first
2) Never Great
3) And definitely not travelling West
MAYBE
1) WHENEVER
2) SHITE & STANDING ROOM ONLY (strike that PRESSED AGAINST A RANK TOILET if you're lucky)
3) STATIC TRAVELLING! The New Vogue of train journeys in UK!
+ at those prices I would expect a goodie bag and a massage.
BAH HUMBUG, well I had to have a Dickens moment! TOOK 12 hours, for goodness sake I could have been in the Maldives in that time.
Maybe Ebenezer just saved his pennies for public transport and partook in a few journeys, so who can blame his attitude after that little experience!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20822798
1) Never first
2) Never Great
3) And definitely not travelling West
MAYBE
1) WHENEVER
2) SHITE & STANDING ROOM ONLY (strike that PRESSED AGAINST A RANK TOILET if you're lucky)
3) STATIC TRAVELLING! The New Vogue of train journeys in UK!
+ at those prices I would expect a goodie bag and a massage.
BAH HUMBUG, well I had to have a Dickens moment! TOOK 12 hours, for goodness sake I could have been in the Maldives in that time.
Maybe Ebenezer just saved his pennies for public transport and partook in a few journeys, so who can blame his attitude after that little experience!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20822798
TOPLESS-Live Chicks do as You...
Sunday, 23 September 2012
Now for all of you hitting on this blog via porn-sites or other curiosity! Serves you right! (you're confusing my audience numbers) If you can't convince a sassy switched on lady to entertain your seedy existence in reality you'd better get reading some chicklit and see how our romantic minds work!
Paparazzi is a sexist disgusting pursuit and why are men never subjected to that level of attention!
I'm not a royalist, but think Kate is entitled to sue the pants of you f***•••'s !
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/sep/22/creepshots-revenge-porn-paparazzi-women?INTCMP=SRCH
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/22/femen-topless-warriors-global-feminism
Just publish who don't mind being published.... in the end we are talking about mammary glands!
Paparazzi is a sexist disgusting pursuit and why are men never subjected to that level of attention!
I'm not a royalist, but think Kate is entitled to sue the pants of you f***•••'s !
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/sep/22/creepshots-revenge-porn-paparazzi-women?INTCMP=SRCH
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/22/femen-topless-warriors-global-feminism
Just publish who don't mind being published.... in the end we are talking about mammary glands!
Kate Middleton Topless - Don't succumb to the frenzy
Saturday, 15 September 2012
Female species have mammary glands, get over it! If this is news? Really France Sacre Bleu maybe have a look at something in your own garden with a long range lens, I hear you need that to see where Sarkozy is anyway, little imp;) I suggest we all go out onto the streets and surprise each other, take away the shock horror that boobs are here to stay and that yes... woman have mammary glands! Some big, some small...woooohoo revelation! Go Danish - accept yes it really is part of nature and we all are naked, we just get more so if we have good weather, otherwise its reliant on temperature. Scientific Fact;) If I had the tropics I wouldn't have the trousers, saves on the washing!
Coca Cola or Kardashian's? Symbol of Globalization, really?
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Hmmm always tricky to slip France into the same article as North Korea and Cuba. What's the common denominator here? I'll let your minds ponder over that one.
FGS It's a drink, it's a mixer, it bubbles. WHOOPEEDO!
Think about our future space exploration and when we do mingle with the Martians:)
"What symbolises your world, what's your signal?"
"Always Coco Cola!"
or Kim's
"I hate when women wear the wrong foundation colour, it might be the worst thing on the planet."
"To attack we only have to go to Boots and stock up on Essex Orange, putty in our spindly hands Marvin. Interesting spectrum the human race, not really a race is it! For one you have to have a foundation to build a foundation! Definitely put them in sub-species category. Ooooh look Marvin Martian intelligent life... a dolphin." Martians move on swiftly hopefully stopping by at Stephen Hawking's house, now there's a reality relativity series that would be interesting.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19550067
FGS It's a drink, it's a mixer, it bubbles. WHOOPEEDO!
Think about our future space exploration and when we do mingle with the Martians:)
"What symbolises your world, what's your signal?"
"Always Coco Cola!"
or Kim's
"I hate when women wear the wrong foundation colour, it might be the worst thing on the planet."
"To attack we only have to go to Boots and stock up on Essex Orange, putty in our spindly hands Marvin. Interesting spectrum the human race, not really a race is it! For one you have to have a foundation to build a foundation! Definitely put them in sub-species category. Ooooh look Marvin Martian intelligent life... a dolphin." Martians move on swiftly hopefully stopping by at Stephen Hawking's house, now there's a reality relativity series that would be interesting.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19550067
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143 books a Day- keeps the critics at Bay;)
Saturday, 21 July 2012
I'm feeling a lot better now after checking my amazon MTD sells! Eternally Indebted to you all, sleep soundly and see you tomorrow xxx I will ignore those gloomy reviews xxx My readers hate gloom and doom so I suggest those moaners pick up their brooms. I promise I will not publish my poetry;)
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Freaky Friday-E-Revolution
Friday, 20 July 2012
Yet another interesting article from BBC. The class divide, which is an archaic British system depicting economic status, education, attitude and environment (for our international readers) is about to be obliterated in publishing.
Normally reserved for what the British call 'middle-class graduates.' Publishing is being tipped on its head... YEAH!!! I am a true believer of 'a person is a person undefinable by position, economics or otherwise.'
If you're nice you're nice who gives a **** what you do and what credit rating your house and plastics create, lets face it if we look at the world as it is, the banks need asbo's and the governments need educating!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18921480
So well done Amazon in shaking up the publishing world as we know it, (ok huge profits for them but it's a revolution nonetheless). I no longer feel the need to have a sex change, go to Eton or Harrow follow on to Cambridge or Oxford, filter through on some minor extract on BBC radio 4 and hang on it's peripheral until my name turns into a double barrel fast track ticket to stuffy class-obsessed agents.
After approaching countless agents (you only have yourselves to blame that people are self-publishing now! Granted an editor/proof reader would have been handy!)
But the Agent game is rather an aggravated version of 'the chicken and egg.' You can't get published without a recommendation, you can't get recommended if you haven't got an agent, you won't get an agent unless your published!!! Foolproof system of keeping your pate loving, polo playing friends in a select world of the elite!
Normally reserved for what the British call 'middle-class graduates.' Publishing is being tipped on its head... YEAH!!! I am a true believer of 'a person is a person undefinable by position, economics or otherwise.'
If you're nice you're nice who gives a **** what you do and what credit rating your house and plastics create, lets face it if we look at the world as it is, the banks need asbo's and the governments need educating!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18921480
So well done Amazon in shaking up the publishing world as we know it, (ok huge profits for them but it's a revolution nonetheless). I no longer feel the need to have a sex change, go to Eton or Harrow follow on to Cambridge or Oxford, filter through on some minor extract on BBC radio 4 and hang on it's peripheral until my name turns into a double barrel fast track ticket to stuffy class-obsessed agents.
After approaching countless agents (you only have yourselves to blame that people are self-publishing now! Granted an editor/proof reader would have been handy!)
But the Agent game is rather an aggravated version of 'the chicken and egg.' You can't get published without a recommendation, you can't get recommended if you haven't got an agent, you won't get an agent unless your published!!! Foolproof system of keeping your pate loving, polo playing friends in a select world of the elite!
Typo's, Reviews and Hodgepodge
Thursday, 19 July 2012
To everyone out there who's been a little bit of a blue meanie. Yes the books are getting proof read as I broadcast to you all. Yes horrible reviews do upset you, yes it's difficult publishing and editing at 2 am at night in between work, work, work, food, sleep, shower, driving, watering plants, dusting off old notes, paying bills, ciphering through everyday life and throwing out the garbage... remembering to call friends and family, occasionally seeing friends and family, an odd trip here and there, saving an animal, stroking a fuzzy friend, enjoying the Muppets... oh is this one of my meandering sentences that confuses those critics. WELL excuse yourselves and enrol in Oxfords English Lit Course (hmm difficult to get in!??) ... my readers don't need an instruction manual to know what I'm getting at and thankfully they have more heart and forgiveness to blinking spend time writing about what they didn't like. They are bright and can follow flow of consciousness without the aid of a mind map!!! MY READERS LOVE LIFE AND ARE POSITIVE. I wasn't aiming for a pulitzer, my aim is fun and to share. But nevertheless the proffeee reading is occurring;) xxx Thanks to my real fans and humbug to the meanies!
Cheap Holiday to Norway-Is this what Bergen feels like?
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Without stepping on a plane, train or automobile, this must be what its like! Just take a brolly and step outside.
Now the British fascination about the weather has just cause this summer. If this rain was a small price to pay for a tropical backlash we'd all be smiling. It would be a relief from the barmy-beautiful-sun- kissed-land. As it stands or flows past your feet, you look up from the ever increasing runoffs and see the streets peppered with new fashion, wellington boots and cagoules galore. But I'd rather be a throwback beach bum out of fashion than an in vogue rubber clad icon.... grrrr give us those rays soon, the third book is suffering. My beach hats need airing, they're disintegrating with moisture overload.
Now the British fascination about the weather has just cause this summer. If this rain was a small price to pay for a tropical backlash we'd all be smiling. It would be a relief from the barmy-beautiful-sun- kissed-land. As it stands or flows past your feet, you look up from the ever increasing runoffs and see the streets peppered with new fashion, wellington boots and cagoules galore. But I'd rather be a throwback beach bum out of fashion than an in vogue rubber clad icon.... grrrr give us those rays soon, the third book is suffering. My beach hats need airing, they're disintegrating with moisture overload.
Scott Fitzgerald - The ultimate cure for writer's block?
Oh to be a student again especially in New York, check out this article on BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18725140
One of my favourite authors in the universe is F. Scott Fitzgerald, I wonder if a stint in Paris is the ticket? South of France for a bit of Sun would be good any sponsors out there? ;))) The third book features a frolic or two on the famous Riviera, hope that wets your appetites... we all know that as soon as you're out of your normal circumstances the world is your oyster, surrounded with the glamour from yesteryear. So anyone got an expansive villa standing empty and chic, needing a lodger ???
Please let me know asap:) I'd be happy to oblige and write in tropical surroundings!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18725140
One of my favourite authors in the universe is F. Scott Fitzgerald, I wonder if a stint in Paris is the ticket? South of France for a bit of Sun would be good any sponsors out there? ;))) The third book features a frolic or two on the famous Riviera, hope that wets your appetites... we all know that as soon as you're out of your normal circumstances the world is your oyster, surrounded with the glamour from yesteryear. So anyone got an expansive villa standing empty and chic, needing a lodger ???
Please let me know asap:) I'd be happy to oblige and write in tropical surroundings!
Cake Monetary System
Saturday, 14 July 2012
The world would be a nicer place!
Banks judged on their battenburgs.
Governments busying themselves with gingerbread quality control.
Societies Swapping sponge and spice secrets.
Ahhhh what a sweet world we would have.
Must be hungry off to covent garden foody show!
The United World of Kindle
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Good Afternoon, Morning, Evening Readers,
I wondered if you could all just drop a quick comment (when time allows) on whereabouts in the world you have read a Nina Whyle book. I'm trying to do some market research, obviously I don't have a marketing department, editing dept. etc... So I ask for your helping tapping hands on those devices yet again.
C'mon it'll be fun... even if I just post up a map and see where we all are in this big ball of gravitational fun. Thanks All xxx
I wondered if you could all just drop a quick comment (when time allows) on whereabouts in the world you have read a Nina Whyle book. I'm trying to do some market research, obviously I don't have a marketing department, editing dept. etc... So I ask for your helping tapping hands on those devices yet again.
C'mon it'll be fun... even if I just post up a map and see where we all are in this big ball of gravitational fun. Thanks All xxx
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CALLING ALL DARCY PUNDITS
Sunday, 1 July 2012
1st. day of July and book sells are rocketing, over 100 today already. The world is full of romance and most importantly FUN and all of YOU:) Wonderful, unbelievable loyal word spreading, media messing clever READERS!
It is "universally acknowledged" that Colin Firth is the definitive Mr. Darcy. Right?
It is "universally acknowledged" that Colin Firth is the definitive Mr. Darcy. Right?
So my question to you all is who is your ideal romantic leading man?
Mine, hands down is Mr.Darcy or more specifically Colin Firth's Mr. Darcy in the BBC Serial "Pride & Prejudice". The voice, the breeches, the frilly shirt, those intense, dark, scrutinising eyes...yummmmy.
Mr. Darcy is the man I go to when I start thinking about my new romantic leads. Michael Canty in 'Moving Up On Manolo's' is Darcy reincarnated and in my latest book, which I hope to have available in September Darcy reappears this time as a Big Dane (now, now, stop that giggling at the back, I've yet to give the Big Dane a name). The reasons I love Darcy, well to start he's handsome, the most eligible bachelor in the room but he also comes across as uptight, conceited and aloof - in all the houses of Pemberley who is going to fall for a man like that!? It takes a bright and witty spark like Lizzie Bennet to bring out his more personable side and he can't help but fall in love with her. Sigh... daydream...ponder...
It's the ultimate love story- where love breaks through social divides and conquers all. The tension, the passion and sweet sweet gratification when all comes good.
New Writers Have no Budget :( A little like Spain & Greece
Saturday, 16 June 2012
Now there has been some comments (not negative because the essence of the books have shone through... you can see that in the rankings) that there are a few typo's, a comma frenzy here and there, plus some dazzling duds.
Thank-you all for your forgiveness, proof reading is important but the characters in the story just run away in my head and leave their muddy tracks all over the place. When you start out there's no money for extra sets of eyes so bear with me and the third book will be scrutinised I may have a lovely blonde pretty friend who will lend me her ear-eyes and time.
Imagine painting white on whitewall in the north Pole on an iceberg under a white fluffy sky with white snow boots on and no tan plus a white snowmobile... that's how far my proof reading goes, you get the white gist!
So enjoy the weekend and be human and mix scrummy cocktails in the white winds of June xxxx
Thank-you all for your forgiveness, proof reading is important but the characters in the story just run away in my head and leave their muddy tracks all over the place. When you start out there's no money for extra sets of eyes so bear with me and the third book will be scrutinised I may have a lovely blonde pretty friend who will lend me her ear-eyes and time.
Imagine painting white on whitewall in the north Pole on an iceberg under a white fluffy sky with white snow boots on and no tan plus a white snowmobile... that's how far my proof reading goes, you get the white gist!
So enjoy the weekend and be human and mix scrummy cocktails in the white winds of June xxxx
Some Dreams come True Slowly but Surely
Sunday, 13 May 2012
I know I haven't posted for a while but in my defence I have been preoccupied with starting my third book. Oh yes there's another rom-com coming this year and it's purely down to the support you all have given me since August 2011.
I'm delighted to say after the obligatory support of friends and family (huge thanks to all, you know who you are) my books have taken off. It's been a slow build but a beautifully consistent one at that, encouraging me to just get on and write. Now there's all of you thinking I didn't know squat about building! Ok here come the clichés, Rome wasn't built in one day, heck I can't even get a plumber in the same day. Everything comes to those who wait? I did wait a whole day only to be told he doesn't work after 3.30pm.
So I would like to send all of my new readers my deepest thanks, humongous hugs, kaleidoscoping kisses, great goose eggs full of gratitude and acres of atomic appreciation, without you I wouldn't be selling 4 books a day! It's not thousands (but I'm chuffed) I'm not hitting the top selling charts but you're all helping my ranking enormously and you have made my life a better place to be in. So whoever you all are, I salute you and worship the time you have given to me and my funny little books. Boy you're flipping fantastic each and everyone of you. xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Too many of those I know but quite honestly I wouldn't have enough room on the blog for all the ones I want to send your way XXXXXXX
I'm delighted to say after the obligatory support of friends and family (huge thanks to all, you know who you are) my books have taken off. It's been a slow build but a beautifully consistent one at that, encouraging me to just get on and write. Now there's all of you thinking I didn't know squat about building! Ok here come the clichés, Rome wasn't built in one day, heck I can't even get a plumber in the same day. Everything comes to those who wait? I did wait a whole day only to be told he doesn't work after 3.30pm.
So I would like to send all of my new readers my deepest thanks, humongous hugs, kaleidoscoping kisses, great goose eggs full of gratitude and acres of atomic appreciation, without you I wouldn't be selling 4 books a day! It's not thousands (but I'm chuffed) I'm not hitting the top selling charts but you're all helping my ranking enormously and you have made my life a better place to be in. So whoever you all are, I salute you and worship the time you have given to me and my funny little books. Boy you're flipping fantastic each and everyone of you. xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Too many of those I know but quite honestly I wouldn't have enough room on the blog for all the ones I want to send your way XXXXXXX
Valentines Adventure or Vanish with a Valium
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Valentines can be a poignant day in a girls life. What will this year bring? "Expectation of Excitement" or "Dread with a dash of Disaster."
It's always a toss up between the two, and as each year passes we try and kid ourselves it really doesn't matter; it's a commercialised capitalist conspiracy designed to sell flowers, chocolates; enabling restaurants to push their prices up purely on the back of a tone deaf lone violinist and not some rare truffle froth only in-season in February. But actually Valentines stems from further back to christian times, more to the point the martyrs, a popular namesake by all accounts. So how many Valentines have you been a martyr, seen it through every painful detail and vowed never to let it happen again?
Most women's memory have that selective button also, it's not purely a male thing. Even though the disasters are burnt in there we vanquish them from our thoughts. So here we are again wondering what invitations, cards, facebook onslaughts will happen this year. You live in hope the slimy one from the office doesn't publicly leave flowers on your desk thinking he has entitlement of the day and that the dark mysterious artist living across from your building plants a cryptic clue in your mailbox on where to meet. Maybe you should just phone Valentine's Pizza and make a hit on the young delivery guy saves all the worry, work and wallowing. Plus you get a dinner that requires no knife and fork etiquette!
A fish out of water or merely a flying fish?
Sunday, 18 September 2011
I didn't give the marketing of my book that much thought when dreaming of scenario's for Jane's arrival in New York. Jane being the humorous protagonist in "Moving Up On Manolo's" and New York well New York is New York who's mind doesn't wonder there at least once a week! If only I had the marketing budget of a brown fizzy drink that some of you might be aware of, I do believe its American in origin! Any marketing suggestions are welcome from you fine thinking folk. Would like to see it move up on Kindle's reader bestsellers list from 10000000 to the 100 best-sellers, Top 10 is what dreams are made of!
So the big question, OK not the biggest question life has to offer, but right now the most complex to me, wading through a sea of cyber information, getting people to like facebook page, linkedin, stumbleupon...and what is a Splash? Drowning in this sea, think I'll make myself a Bloody Mary, it is 10 am after all!
So the big question, OK not the biggest question life has to offer, but right now the most complex to me, wading through a sea of cyber information, getting people to like facebook page, linkedin, stumbleupon...and what is a Splash? Drowning in this sea, think I'll make myself a Bloody Mary, it is 10 am after all!
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