OMG Shakespeare takes the original plays and retells them using text speak, emoticons and slang. I can’t see how one could translate the beautiful and moving “to be or not to be” speech in Hamlet and translate it into modern language or (worse) into slang or text speech. For the article please see, (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3121419/Yolo-Juliet-Macbeth-s-killingit-Academics-horrified-dumbing-Shakespeare-Bard-s-greatest-works-retold-EMOJI.html).
Caught in a kiss
Her lips
Forever bliss
The free promotion of my book, “Samantha” ends on Friday 12 June 2015.
Samantha tells the story of a young woman forced into prostitution in the city of Liverpool. Can Sam survive the brutality of her pimp, Barry or will she end her troubled existence in the murky waters of Liverpool’s Albert Dock. To download “Samantha” free please visit http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samantha-K-Morris-ebook/dp/B00BL3CNHI.
If you read “Samantha” or any of my other works I would very much appreciate it if you would please consider leaving a review.
Many thanks,
Kevin
Many thanks to Paul White for including my book, “Dalliance; A Collection of Poetry and Prose” on his blog, Take A Sneak Peek, (https://takeasneakpeak.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/dalliance/). For information on getting your book included on Take A Sneak Peek please visit, (https://takeasneakpeak.wordpress.com/about/). Paul is offering a wonderful service to readers and authors and I strongly recommend checking out his site.
Kevin
Me, answering my mobile, “Hello”.
Automated female voice, “Our records indicate you may have been involved in a non fatal accident in the last 12 months”.
Now what would be the point of calling someone who had been involved in a fatal accident? Surely a psychic rather than mundane telephony would be in order when contacting a person who had shuffled off this mortal coil? I wonder whether the people behind this annoying cold calling operation are aware of the idiocy of the above automated announcement? I somehow doubt that those running the company in question are going to set the commercial world alight with their intellect …
Kevin
As an author I do understand the need to promote my books. From time to time this site carries posts doing precisely that. In addition I am very happy to help spread the word regarding my fellow authors. To this end I have published a number of guest posts by other writers on a variety of topics mainly, but not limited to their literary work. If you are interested in guest posting please email me at newauthoronline (at) gmail dot com.
All of the above is part of being an author. However what drives me barmy is constant automated requests to promote other writer’s work. Recently I have received automated posts, every few hours from one person who shall remain nameless asking me (together with their other followers/readers) to retweet the fact they have a new book out. This is annoying as it clogs up my inbox which is already groaning under the weight of WordPress notifications. Where I to retweet every time this blogger sent out their automated post asking me to do so my own readers would, quite naturally become irritated with me and I wouldn’t blame them for doing so.
This is the first time I have come across this practice and I sincerely hope it will be the last. The vast majority of bloggers do not engage in this behaviour and demonstrate respect for their followers. I suspect the person who is driving me potty is not aware of the effect of their actions so I have not followed my inclination to unfollow (what an ugly word that is) them. However if they persist I will do just that – unfollow them.
I did think long and hard regarding whether to post this. However, on reflection I think the above points do require to be made.
Kevin
The free promotion of my book, “The Suspect and Other Tales” ends on 8 June 2015. To read reviews or to download “The Suspect” free please visit http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Suspect-other-tales-Morris-ebook/dp/B00PKPTQ0U (for the UK) or http://www.amazon.com/The-Suspect-other-tales-Morris-ebook/dp/B00PKPTQ0U (for the USA and rest of the world).
Kevin
They washed filthy linen in a public place. The people blanched at their disgrace.
Those two hung soiled garments in the town square. The populace sniggered. The couple didn’t care.
They left their unclean washing with the garbage to be taken away. The binman said, “the rubbish can go but your dirty laundry must stay”.
I am delighted to publish the below announcement from fellow author Victoria (Tori) Zigler regarding the availability of her books in print from Createspace:
“My name is Victoria Zigler, and I’m a blind author of children’s
fiction and poetry.
In April 2012, I began publishing my books as eBooks via Smashwords,
who then distribute them to multiple eBook retailers, including – but
not limited to – Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo.
Since then, I’ve received several requests to make my books available
in paperback format.
I’m pleased to announce that I am finally able to grant these requests!
The first two of my books are now available to buy in paperback from
CreateSpace and Amazon, with the rest of my backlist of books
following as soon as it can be arranged.
The paperback versions will also be made available to request from
other retailers and bookstores, as well as from your local library,
though this will take a little longer to arrange.
“The Great Degu Round-Up” and “A Very Degu Christmas” are the titles
already available to buy in paperback.
~*~
Victoria “Tori” Zigler
(Children’s author and poet)
*~*~*
Website:
Smashwords:
http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/toriz
Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/toriz
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/tori.zigler
Facebook author page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Victoria-Zigler/424999294215717
Twitter:
Blog:
http://ziglernews.blogspot.com
You have spent eons polishing that poem. Read it through until the words swim like spectres before your eyes and, finally, being satisfied with the results of your labour pressed publish. What a feeling of satisfaction at a job well done flows through one when one’s perfectly crafted words our out there for the great reading public to pour over. A few days later you sit down and reread your pearls of wisdom. Oops your writing which seemed to constitute perfection personified suddenly reveals imperfections.
To take an example from my own work. Below is my poem “Fire” rendered twice. The first rendering appeared on this blog, newauthoronline.com and the second (polished) rewrite can be found in “Dalliance; A Collection of Poetry and Prose”.
Fire As It Appeared On Newauthoronline:
“I have felt the fire at midnight’s hour
It kindles brightly and sinks within the hour.
I have gazed at embers dying fast
Looked into the future and gazed into the past
I have raked the ashes cold, felt the bleakness in my soul”.
Fire As Published in “Dalliance: A Collection of Poetry and Prose”:
“I have felt the fire’s power;
It kindles brightly and sinks within the hour.
I have watched the embers dying fast;
Looked into the future and gazed into the past.
I have raked the ashes cold, felt the bleakness in my soul”.
In the first rendering the word “hour appears in the first and second lines while, in the second (rewrite)it is replaced by “power” in the first line. Again, in the original version the word “gazed” appears in lines 3 and 4 while, in the poem as published in “Dalliance” it is changed (in line 3 to “watched”, with “gazed” shown in line 4 only. Word repetition has a place in poetry. However in “Fire” the utilisation of “hour” and “gazed” so close together served to render my poem less than perfect, hence the rewrite.
Most of my writing takes place during daylight when my brain is firing on all cylinders. “Fire” was, if memory serves written during late evening which may explain in part at least the excessive repetition employed in the poem. The lesson I draw from all this is the importance of writing when one’s brain is at it’s sharpest or, if writing does take place when sleep is calling put one’s creation to one side and revisit it when the mind is fresh. Finally reread, reread and reread again.
For “Fire” as it appeared on my blog please go to (http://newauthoronline.com/2015/03/14/fire/). For “Dalliance; A Collection of Poetry and Prose” please visit (http://www.amazon.com/Dalliance-collection-poetry-prose-Morris-ebook/dp/B00QQVJC7E).
Kevin
