tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post2549586264990327470..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Writing and the modern media, by Jan NeedleKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-54590894382410902842012-03-18T11:06:10.618+00:002012-03-18T11:06:10.618+00:00thanks for all the comments. silver and blood has ...thanks for all the comments. silver and blood has been up on amazon for a few days now, thanks to my son matti gardner. it's 99p and it's<br />http://amzn.to/wYlt7IJan Needlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15823078224282953782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-54991540460747725712012-03-17T15:27:34.153+00:002012-03-17T15:27:34.153+00:00I dramatised Treasure Island for Radio 4! Think it...I dramatised Treasure Island for Radio 4! Think it's still available on a CD, or at least I get a small sum of money for it every year. I'll definitely buy yours. Love Stevenson. Lovely, funny post - with which I completely identify!Catherine Czerkawskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554969254207924049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-5195631305215024962012-03-16T18:28:52.881+00:002012-03-16T18:28:52.881+00:00i can only hope you're wrong, dennis. you'...i can only hope you're wrong, dennis. you've read the book - snot a sequel, is it? you just hate me now because i've exposed you as an apologist for moonfleet!<br /><br />dogfood point. if it's addressed to jan, not dan, i can only say it's 'ard oop north, enid. sometimes, if dogfood's short, we as to eat the dog. dook is already getting nervous...Jan Needlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15823078224282953782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-52974738080663445962012-03-16T18:15:00.986+00:002012-03-16T18:15:00.986+00:00Jan, I distinctly remember a letter you wrote, pro...Jan, I distinctly remember a letter you wrote, probably to the Guardian, somewhere about the time that William Horwood's sequel was published pointing out that you'd written a sequela as well but nobody took any notice of it. I nearly wrote a letter myself saying that I'd taken a lot of notice of it and still do. So there.Dennis Hamleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15781139870037634374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-82020320887106879932012-03-16T13:06:33.637+00:002012-03-16T13:06:33.637+00:00You live on DOGFOOD, Dan? Is this economising or w...You live on DOGFOOD, Dan? Is this economising or what? Cuts out the cooking hssle, though, so you've more time to write.Enid Richemonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17218197995089241666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-10371567978816742842012-03-16T11:36:29.039+00:002012-03-16T11:36:29.039+00:00it's the animals who use dook as a sofa, not t...it's the animals who use dook as a sofa, not the kids. and why do i keep dropping 't's out of my posts, i'm meant to be a touch typist. and wild wood in NOT a sequel, dennis. but an ebook version might be a good plan. i wonder who owns the picture rights now poor old willie's welcomed humph into the mornington crescent in the sky?Jan Needlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15823078224282953782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-88832057497501506332012-03-16T11:30:40.425+00:002012-03-16T11:30:40.425+00:00to dennis: not only bob leeson's silver's ...to dennis: not only bob leeson's silver's revenge - emma tennant also did a return to treasure island, if i remember right. but for me, in both of them, john silver was the problem. that's why you're wrong over moonfleet, see? john silver is so massive, so mysterious, so delightful and so vile that to take him on in a sequel is like climbing everest in gucci loafers (whatever they might be!)- he's insurmountable. in more general terms, what's with a sequel anyway? stevenson was abandoned as a baby in a paper bag by a drunken nanny, wasn't he? who else can understand john silver? what more do you want?<br /><br />to cally: poor dook's so old now (in great dane terms) that he wouldn't survive the journey to scotland. he hardly survives a trip down stairs, his legs are so long and his co-ordination so shot. izzy and fin have a wild, rambunctious tomcat called gavin (they ARE children)as well as dook and pip, and the three of them together are wonderful. they use him as a sofa and his dewlaps as a place to hide under. three disparate creatures, comforably in love.<br />as to silver and blood - yes, i'll sort it out. thanks.Jan Needlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15823078224282953782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-37429952438097697902012-03-16T11:07:20.143+00:002012-03-16T11:07:20.143+00:00Been so busy twit/blog/fbooking and generally clic...Been so busy twit/blog/fbooking and generally clicking around that I've come over late to this post. LOVE DOOK..... I wanted a Great Dane but house not big enough. Damn. Does one GD = 2x GSP's? <br />As re the update TI... get me a copy you muppet so I can review it for the site! THEN we'll take Andrew Motion to the cleaners on reviews...CallyPhillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15481379296340077102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-4539542631022477072012-03-16T10:48:14.515+00:002012-03-16T10:48:14.515+00:00Fantastic and instantly recognisable post, Jan. I...Fantastic and instantly recognisable post, Jan. I read Motion's piece in the Guardian. What he said about TI struck me as being pretty good, but it also reminded me that I've done nothing about TI v Moonfleet. I will, I will, just as soon as I've finished ...<br /><br />As for sequels, nobody's mentioned Bob Leeson's Silver's Revenge, published in the 80s. Great book. Should be reissued. Bob must be sitting in his house in Broxbourne seething with rage. Then yours and his could appear together with the combined title THESE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ANDREW MOTION.<br /><br />When are you going to epublish Wild Wood? Best Wind/Willows sequel of them all. Beats Horwood any day. Great piece of social history too. I still treasure Boddington.Dennis Hamleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15781139870037634374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-64672898067275348892012-03-16T10:44:27.846+00:002012-03-16T10:44:27.846+00:00bore da, hywela, a diolch yn fawr. i actually chec...bore da, hywela, a diolch yn fawr. i actually checked in my geiriadur bach and realised my mistake - but i couldn't be bothered to correct it, being an idle mochyn sais! it's a long-standing mistake of mine, and came from a welshman in abersoch from whom i bought some mooring ground tackle years ago. he said it meant picture, but perhaps he was just being nice, and it was a lovely day which he clearly wanted me to enjoy. but other native speaker friends of mine, who live in llanbedrog, don't think the peninsula name refers to lakes, they just think it's a name. it's surrouded by water, yes, but pretty short on lakes, you must admit. that's the great thing about ancient languages, innit? even those who speak them from birth can still argue! in my case, tho, i was simply wrong. the word for picture is llun, as you say. thanks again.Jan Needlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15823078224282953782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-9751146650129503572012-03-15T23:06:19.772+00:002012-03-15T23:06:19.772+00:00Hi Jan
Hilarious post - it could be me, most morn...Hi Jan<br /><br />Hilarious post - it could be me, most mornings!<br /><br />Oh as a homesick Welsh exile, could I respectfully corect you on an item in your comment above though, Llyn actually means lake - 'llun' is picture, although I agree it makes a beautiful picture!Hywela Lynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13789711554354184386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-87926622678490608162012-03-15T20:40:00.694+00:002012-03-15T20:40:00.694+00:00want it want itwant it want itjulia joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09773900100240758504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-80635315850211978552012-03-15T18:28:44.725+00:002012-03-15T18:28:44.725+00:00Wow, your updating of Stephenson (of whom I'm ...Wow, your updating of Stephenson (of whom I'm another great fan)sounds wonderful!Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-84569411689450221492012-03-15T12:07:17.502+00:002012-03-15T12:07:17.502+00:00normally when i'm sailing i wet my pants, dan ...normally when i'm sailing i wet my pants, dan (or should i say, get them wet?), but as you can see from the pic of me in my fifteen-footer william shakesbill (yes, shakesbill - another son named her for me when he knew no better, saying 'that bloke what wrote plays in the olden days')i'm snoozing along in a more or less flat calm in tremadoc bay off the llyn peninsula. (llyn means picture; you can see why they called it that). as to andrew motion's book, i shall read it with great interest, obviously, but sequels always strike me as a wee bit odd. my silver and blood is a complete reimagining of the great, great, great original, and the pirates use high-speed launches and AK47's. i hope i've made as good a job of it as julia's made with arthur ransome's classics.<br />ps i did ask matti, and the work's been complete for some time. his cover's fabulous and it'll be up as soon as amazon extract their digit.Jan Needlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15823078224282953782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-20738993790358074652012-03-15T11:24:17.756+00:002012-03-15T11:24:17.756+00:00Boooger Andrew Motion. I like him because he once ...Boooger Andrew Motion. I like him because he once re-created Keats's journey to Italy in a grand old Lowestoft sailing trawler called the Excelsior and wrote very honestly of his excruciating boredom when they were becalmed in the Bay of Biscay (no engine) but if I were going for blood and guts piracy it'd be Needle every time.<br />Might be forced to read his story (for research you understand) but SWEAR I will also read yours if you get on and get it up-loaded. (Just ask Matti)julia joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09773900100240758504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-48146508895886748072012-03-15T09:40:48.809+00:002012-03-15T09:40:48.809+00:00This is pant-wettingly funny!This is pant-wettingly funny!Dan Hollowayhttp://danholloway.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-34307370262817664372012-03-15T09:34:30.386+00:002012-03-15T09:34:30.386+00:00Brilliant! I started tweeting and blogging last ye...Brilliant! I started tweeting and blogging last year as a career move but I completely love it. Only problem is, it fills up so much time, I feel continuously busy. This new writing life is an embarrassment of riches, for me.Jenny Alexanderhttp://jenalexanderbooks.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-68569385413712829762012-03-15T09:16:22.438+00:002012-03-15T09:16:22.438+00:00Very funny Jan - It's my life exactly!Very funny Jan - It's my life exactly!Kathleen Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07645566938871914385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-18114733386612611092012-03-15T09:05:42.146+00:002012-03-15T09:05:42.146+00:00Great post - surely all of us can identify with th...Great post - surely all of us can identify with this?JOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03127111575563904349noreply@blogger.com