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Overlander - Launch Event
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What is 'Facebook'?
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Mine too.
Can you imagine the publishers (I am calling them Hamish and Sandy)
Hamish: whit’s that ye say Sandy? His phone Dusnae accept photos?
Sandy: Aye Hamish and he winnae touch Facebook[Hamish and Sandy mutter and shake their heads]
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Overlander doesn't contain the letter 't' on the grounds that the reader will have had their etc etc.
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If I remember correctly you wrote the whole book without using the letter 't'...
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I never uilise he leer ''.
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Now shortlisted for the Saltire literary awards! well done our iwrats!
https://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/awards/literature/literary-awards/shortlists/
https://twitter.com/overlandertheb1/status/1187802488826716160?s=20
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This fact is totally mental. Overlander is up for an award that AL Kennedy has won. Too, too much.
For what it's worth my money is on Clare Hunter's Threads of Life.
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Incroyable Mais Vrai (incredible but true)
All without using the letter t
After the French Revolution an underground group of male aristocrats called themselves The Incredibles. The female counterparts were The Marvels? Was a mostly binary world then.
Les Incroyables et Les Merveilleuses
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Les Incroyables liked to call themselves Les Incoyables
Les Meveilleuses was the preferred name for themselves of Les Merveilleuses
As they did not like the R word
Or the R letter
As the absolutely incredible and marvellous Microdisney was sang Love Your Enemy. They have i think even changed the name of their album We Hate You South African B@£$%^&*(s
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IWRATS - fantastic, I am properly chuffed for you. Just think, Scottish publishers put out around 3000 new books every year. I imagine a fairly high proportion are by new authors and yours is sitting right at the top of the pile!
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Thanks @Morningsider. I am delighted that the pleasure is shared.
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Well done!
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Not sure if this should be here or in the Spotted thread...
Spotted in today's The Week magazine ('All you need to know about everything that matters'), the travel page lists three cool things you can do: visiting van Gogh's province, going to the bountiful Dominican Republic or bikepacking in Scotland.
This latter article relates the experience of one Alan Brown, as reported in the Grauniad.
As it says, all you need to know about everything that matters :-)
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@Greenrofer
I'm sure this 'Alan Brown' will be delighted to learn that his Graun article has been picked up. I'd never heard of The Week before.
And I heartily recommend visiting Saint-Rémy-de-Provence which I cycled into many years ago and almost fell off on the main drag due to an overwhelming sense of having been there before. Found out later I was standing in a van Gogh painting, made just round the corner from the hospital he was in at the time. I knew it from a Ladybird book I'd got when I was eight.
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I will now need to go and check if the other article was about visiting van Gogh's Provence, or his province. I do rather think it might have been the latter, as I recall some discussion about unpronounceable Dutch place names.
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Good luck IWRATS...
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Tonight’s the night?
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I thank you one and all. Delighted to report that;
1) Threads of Life won as I predicted
2) The Seafarers also won
3) The writers of both turned out to be highly affable
4) I was sat next to the beautifully bonkers Janette Ayachi when she won the poetry prize. Worth going just for that.Posted 4 years ago # -
An event to remember though! Well done for making the list - where was the event held?
Can still put sticker on the book / mention online 'selected for Saltire Literary Award 2019'?Posted 4 years ago # -
@LaidBack
It was in the main hall of the museum in Chambers Street and you can be assured I'll be using 'Saltire shortlisted' wherever and whenever I can.
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wee jimmy mcavoy appearing as Cyrano down in London
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There can be only one Cyrano and that is the slippery bombast Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu.
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I finished reading the book last night. I was very disapointed this morning to discover no party on my polling paper matching up to the manifesto in the final chapter.
It was the fastest I have read a book for several years with each chapter offering a new mini adventure.
A real insight into so many different parts of the highlands and the history which has made them what they are today.
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@acsimpson
I have just done a small theatre-style bow to my PC screen. The codex is indeed my manifesto.
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If only depardieu learnt something more than the lines when he played Cyrano.
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Can I recommend to the house this excellent programme
The Adventure Show, 2017/2018: 6. Roads Less Travelled - The Heart of Scotland: Special, Part 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09l57ck via @bbciplayer
From 20mins in there is a decent chat with a bloke trying to reforest Glen Feshie.
(But the whole programme is worth a watch)
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Just heard that Overlander is going to a second edition.
Which means all of you lucky people have the valuable signed first edition....
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Nice
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Will there be an audiobook?
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