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One member of my reading group, who has only just started to read, has given me some perfect and specific editing tips. She also told me that another member, who was listening by audio, was really enjoying the book. He’s her partner, so she knows him well enough to have also been able to say,…

I’ve had feedback now (one complaint, to be precise) about the sound quality of my recordings, so I’ve sent this to the group: Just to say, I know the sound recording isn’t to a professional standard on these recordings and it’s not meant to be. I’m recording for two reasons. Firstly, because I’ve been told…

I’ve had some bits of feedback from my reading group, now. All good so far, which is nice, though I suspect they’re being gentle with me. Hoping for something more meaty but not too damning, eventually, when we get more into the story. Right now, it’s just wonderful to hear that some of them are…

Maybe I shouldn’t ask them, but they did have a choice. And there’s no reason why they should prioritise it, but two of them do, which is lovely. Some find it difficult to read the early chapters which seem semi autobiographical to them. Others have other things to do first and may never get around…

I’ve got my pre-publication reading group together now, comprising of most of my children and other family members. I might add other people as we go along, but for now it feels like enough. I’m sharing book one with them as I record the audio draft version, so that they have the choice of reading…

Having finished (or thought I’d finished! About which, more to come…) the final edit of History Maps 1: User Interface, I decided to read it out loud into my phone’s voice recorder app, to see how it sounds. I’m so glad I’ve done this. Reading the first chapter out loud and listening to it playing…

He absolutely loves to troll her and she sets herself up for it, with her insults and her pomposity. But, having just edited the chapter including the two of them and the VR set, I have to wonder if she sneakily does understand him and is only pretending not to. And maybe he knows that,…

I had a good chat with a dear friend this morning (thanks, Dion!) about recording the Audible version of my books. I want to read them out loud, at least to myself, as part of the editing process, but it would also be great to be the narrator, at least in the first instance, of…

The other desk, in my middle daughter’s maths tuition lessons. The waiting room, in my youngest daughter’s play therapy sessions. The car, on many occasions, usually waiting for someone. (Today, it’s middle daughter’s job interview that I’m waiting to be over, so I can hear how it went and we can go elsewhere.) Just about…

She seemed like such a permanent part of the fixtures and fittings of our country, that I imagined she’d live forever. It’s made me think of mortality, and how much time we might have left. None of us is completely safe from the grim reaper. I know, she was very old and it was to…