tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post7815850490132290101..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Coleridge gets feedback on his Ancient Mariner. Report by Valerie LawsKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-20064108563589783102013-03-01T21:41:39.045+00:002013-03-01T21:41:39.045+00:00Catherine, that very fine Cruise film was Collater...Catherine, that very fine Cruise film was Collateral Damage, directed by Michael Mann. I liked it too. Valerie, good wicked fun here! Oddly, it left me wondering what would've happened if Byron had gone on to become an old lecher, trying to sell the 90th canto of Don Juan. His young heroic death in Greece was a good career move.glitter noirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11728649916344336118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-67020519623019594252013-03-01T21:08:36.105+00:002013-03-01T21:08:36.105+00:00Oh wow! I LOVE this! STC getting the come-uppance ...Oh wow! I LOVE this! STC getting the come-uppance from a trendy 2013 'publisher'?Enid Richemonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17218197995089241666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-1233649933485579672013-03-01T19:58:05.756+00:002013-03-01T19:58:05.756+00:00Dennis, if I can get the cover right I might well ...Dennis, if I can get the cover right I might well do a creatspace paperback. thanks as ever for supportive comments. Madwippet, thanks for cover comments. Lydia Bennethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328239009863878547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-27060719672468618992013-03-01T19:56:38.795+00:002013-03-01T19:56:38.795+00:00thanks all for helpful comments and laughter! xthanks all for helpful comments and laughter! xLydia Bennethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328239009863878547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-62755599133551347012013-03-01T17:19:02.688+00:002013-03-01T17:19:02.688+00:00Oh no! Speed is the best action adventure movie EV...Oh no! Speed is the best action adventure movie EVER. (Though I'm very fond of Bill and Ted too!) Catherine Czerkawskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554969254207924049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-151898733743431332013-03-01T16:26:31.028+00:002013-03-01T16:26:31.028+00:00Re: your cover. I must admit I'm not massively...Re: your cover. I must admit I'm not massively keen on it, and for me it doesn't really get the book across. I like your other idea better - something like an updated Punch type sketch? Of course this is just my opinion and I've often been wrong about these things!madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-21874801822869975982013-03-01T16:23:18.328+00:002013-03-01T16:23:18.328+00:00Great post - after a harrassing day so far, a much...Great post - after a harrassing day so far, a much needed laugh!<br /><br />PS: I thought Tom Cruise was exceptionally good in Magnolia. But otherwise ... easy to leave! As for Canoe Reeves: Bill and Ted's Bogus Adventure. Only decent film he's done!<br /><br /> madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-77504146790849587642013-03-01T13:42:26.637+00:002013-03-01T13:42:26.637+00:00I'm with you about the sailors. Too pouty. And...I'm with you about the sailors. Too pouty. And I've never liked Cruise much either, except that I thought he was good in the one where he was the assassin - name escapes me now, but once he stopped being a sex symbol he was much better - and oddly enough, more attractive! Now if you were talking about my well known obsession with Keanu Reeves...Catherine Czerkawskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554969254207924049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-77157189506541261682013-03-01T11:47:14.063+00:002013-03-01T11:47:14.063+00:00Is it just me, or are Gaultier's sailors a com...Is it just me, or are Gaultier's sailors a complete turn off? I never liked Tom Cruise either.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-12128936885870906642013-03-01T11:44:49.042+00:002013-03-01T11:44:49.042+00:00Great stuff Valerie. If only STC had had that sort...Great stuff Valerie. If only STC had had that sort of advice for real, he might have made it to the Premiership with Byron, Keats and Shelley instead of having to make do with the Championship (explanatory notes of these terms available on request).<br />The cover idea sounds great. I once translated 3 Molière plays for performance in the USA. One of them was modernised and used the Italian-American vernacular so, for the poster we used a portrait of the man himself with a pair of sunglasses stuck into his wig. It worked.Bill Kirtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16345949773423764808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-75948404126149172442013-03-01T10:40:36.867+00:002013-03-01T10:40:36.867+00:00Ah thanks for this, Val - and thank-you for making...Ah thanks for this, Val - and thank-you for making me laugh out loud! Even though the sun's shining today,I've been feeling all 'wintered out' and fed up, and this has cheered me up no end. It is so funny and so horribly true at the same time. That's exactly what would happen. And the 'reader' who read The Physic Garden DID say it was 'just an old man telling his story'. In retrospect, that was a kind of tipping point for me! Every so often I feel the need to reread what happened to Barbara Pym. If it could happen to her with her horrible publisher, it could happen to anyone. But they lived to regret it. <br />I've been thinking about the cover of LBB ever since you mentioned it. So far, with my covers, I've tended to send a heap of pictures (like a sort of mood board in interior design) and an extract to the artist. One of them read the whole book first but she's a good friend. I'm always rather stunned by what the artist comes up with. There's one of mine I know I need to change - not because there's anything wrong with it, but because it's wrong for the book - and I am gearing myself up to pay for it!I think your idea of a drawing of a typical Regency style girl holding an iphone might be good. I remember thinking when I first read it that there might be some mismatch between the cover of the book and the book itself, but I wasn't sure why (because she's lovely!) Maybe it's simply that it should be an illustration and not a photograph. Catherine Czerkawskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554969254207924049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-33107539859875998872013-03-01T10:28:11.237+00:002013-03-01T10:28:11.237+00:00PS If the publishers were so crass as to call him...PS If the publishers were so crass as to call him 'Sam' he'd tear the letter up without reading it. He hated Sam. Esteesee was the name.Dennis Hamleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15781139870037634374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-5493726789862813152013-03-01T10:22:25.062+00:002013-03-01T10:22:25.062+00:00Lovely stuff, Valerie, It would be eve worse if h...Lovely stuff, Valerie, It would be eve worse if he'd submitted his original 'medieval' Lyrical Ballads title - The Ancyent Marinere. Yes, I repeat my opinion that kids approaching P&P for the first time and having reactions something like Blott and Inck to it might have their attitudes completely changed by Lydia. I'm still trying to think of anybody I might still know who has clout in the English-teaching world to ask if they'll spread the word, because somebody's got to, When you have your new cover will you be doing a print version? If you do, at least I could try for a review or two in non-indie publications. I managed one for Julia. A mobile would be fine for the cover. I still treasure a great line from 'Lost in Austen' - Amanda saying in wonderment, 'Elizabeth Bennett is lending me her mobile phone.' Anachronism is good.Dennis Hamleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15781139870037634374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-50394308803923133142013-03-01T08:32:02.585+00:002013-03-01T08:32:02.585+00:00Nice to get a laugh before 8.30 in the morning! Th...Nice to get a laugh before 8.30 in the morning! Thanks. Your 'difficult' age book looks like it might be a prime candidate for an 'enhanced' ebook (when anyone can work out how to make them!) CallyPhillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15481379296340077102noreply@blogger.com