Hello Again
Hello to all Cloudie friends, present and future – sorry to
have lost touch with Cloud life for a while, but things have been
a bit multi-layered.
We were in America for a two week road trip, which took much
preparing for and much recovering from. I posted a few photos
yesterday and also provided a link to the full set on Facebook.
(If you missed it, here it is again:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.174235359318790.44345.100001969827202&l=d33bd6185f&type=1)
When time and competence allow I’ll post a few blogs about the
trip, under the heading of ‘A Tweet Tour of South West U.S.A.’
(Tweet? Ah, but all will be explained.)
One of the curious things about the tour was that Chris and I
were already transatlantic without ever having been there. This
is because (a) I have a publisher in Washington State (for
The Two Worlds of Wellesley Tudor Pole) and (b) a few
days before we set out Chris acquired a publisher in Calgary
(Champagne Books) for her novel, The Salamander Stone
(young adult fantasy thriller).
Is there some deep plan at work of which we catch only
glimpses?
On our return we had the central heating re-piped and a new
boiler fitted (immaculate timing). Chris returned to school
(masochist). I went to the apnea clinic at York Hospital this
afternoon. And we’ve just booked train tickets for a reception
later this month at the Bahai centre in London. Why? Because
Wellesley Tudor Pole welcomed Abdul Baha, the Bahai prophet, to
Britain 100 years ago (and subsequently saved his life in World
War One). So, as WTP’s biographer, I’m an invited guest.
All of which means I’ve not been able to give full mind, for
instance, to AlanP’s blog about what releases the tears, despite
one or two things I’d like to say on the topic (time and focus
allowing) – or Noodledoodle’s blog on 9/11 (about which one might
say either very little or very much). And so on.
I have hopes of swivelling the mind back where it used to be,
though – and so I repeat, Hello Again!
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I've not mentioned her writing till now because, like many authors, she's basically a private person. When she pressed the send button on her acceptance email she realised she was sending her privacy away and, like it or not, must now promote herself. Publication is set for April (things move faster with internet publishing). Hard copy books will be available, but the company mainly targets the internet market, which, in a transatlantic context, seems to be becoming the norm.
By the way, I normally call her Chrissy, as Chris sounds a bit unisex to me, but that's what she calls herself to her publishers, so I think maybe I'd better fall in line. A new person. A new career. Some times it's worth getting blurdeleblur older...
Haven't revealed my alias yet...
A very warm welcome back :-)
Amarantha: thank you for the v.w. welcome back - yup, as horses go, she's a dark un
Athelstone: some things are best not relaxed - e.g. post-journey digestion, body-clock hours - but thanks for the compliment
Kiki: aha, where've you been (and not told us) - c'mon, details?
Kate7: thank you for awaiting the blogs - I am duly encouraged!
Gerilyn: a time of wonders indeed (methinks America is a continent of wonders - not all good perhaps, but a lot of them are, I'd say...)
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