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Hometown:: Manchester, UK

About Me:: I am also a budding novelist and am working on a fantasy fiction novel that is undergoing the editing process.

Website:: http://www.nypocreative.co.uk/open/tirfo_thuin/index.html

Favorite Author(s):: Philip Pullman, Garth Nix, JK Rowling, JRR Tolkien, Jonathan Stroud, Terry Pratchett, Dan Brown,

Favorite Novel(s):: His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman), Sabriel Troligy (Garth Nix), Harry Potter (you all know by now), Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown), Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) - I will keep adding as I come across them

Favourite Genre:: Fantasy Fiction, Religious Fiction, humourous fantasy, young adult fiction

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A cool little target counter. You simply need to add the following code into your page or your own blogs or where ever you fancy (you need to wrap the whole thing in a < and a >. Can't do that here or I'll end up with two of the things :)
img src="http://picometer.writertopia.com/words=INSERT THE AMOUNT YOUR UP TO HERE&target=AND YOUR TARGET HERE"

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How to submit unsolicited manuscripts

Many publishing houses do no longer accept manuscripts that have not first been dealt with by an agent. These are called unsolicited manuscripts. This often makes it harder to get past the first hurdle when sending your work out to be considered and brings in a whole new level of complication in finding an agent you can trust. However, I recently spotted on the Pan Macmillan site that they have an area for authors who have written a book for adults (this does not include young adults) and has n… Continue

Posted on 10th April 2008 at 1:24pm — No Comments (Add)

Times Online Childrens Author competition winner

As mentioned in an earlier post I recently entered into the times online competition to become a childrens author. Unfortunately i didn't make the shortlist but thought I'd post a link to an interview with the winner and an extract from the winning book. Click here to view

Posted on 10th April 2008 at 10:18am — No Comments (Add)

Hello everyone - hope people are keeping busy

Seems like the site has picked up again after a quiet spell. Just checked the latest stats and the average time on the site is slowly creeping back up. The highest it's been is about 10 mins which is pretty good to be honest. It dropped to about 2 mins over Christmas and is now back up to 5:30. Yay! Also, the number of new visitors coming to the site is on an upward trend as well. Yesterday we had 22 new people who have never visited the site before coming for a look around. Anyways, hope ever… Continue

Posted on 22nd February 2008 at 12:11pm — No Comments (Add)

No Fair :( It appears I'm not good enough

The shortlist for the Timesonline Children's Author competition has been announced and, alas, I do not feature in it. Awwwww man. I was sooo hopeful as well. At least it might give me a kick up the arse to start editing and refining again. Since entering the comp I've been hopeful and, therefore, pretty much left it alone. Time to go back to the drawing board I think :)

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Posted on 9th February 2008 at 10:25pm — 4 Comments (Add)

Christmas presents. Who got what?

With probably everyone knowing we all like reading it is likely the majority of you may have received books for Christmas. Just wondering if anyone got any interesting ones. I received the Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan that start with The Magicians Guild. Started reading it last night and it's pretty good so far. Has good descriptions of locations etc.

Posted on 2nd January 2008 at 9:57am — 1 Comment (Add)

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At 7:11pm on 18th June 2008, Rob Massey said…: Nice one - thanks a lot! Just finding my way round and finding out how to post stuff. It all looks good.

At 1:01pm on 2nd April 2008, Aidana WillowRaven said…: I love it! How much of it was phototock & how much Photshop? Its very dramatic & mystical.

At 6:24pm on 17th March 2008, Nene said…: thanks for the welcome!

At 1:48pm on 27th February 2008, Rich said…: Yeah kind of bud, I'm a Pre-Press Trainer, I teach people how to use In-Design, I also create some adverts for the newspaper etc in the creative department, but it's not really ought like we use to do at uni etc.. i fancy somot more creative in a design studio, found this place in Blackburn which I might go for http://www.oneightycreative.com/ which are looking for a designer.. and its just up the road from me, which would be ideal..! I'll have a look at that place you mentioned too :) but im not too good on the web side of stuff!

At 1:15pm on 27th February 2008, Rich said…: Yeah... was browsing on Facebook, and thought I'd sign up to it..! Looks good, cheers for the comments, i'm just in the process of re-vamping my profile because i'm gonna start applying for some jobs in Manc and Preston etc.. i'm bored of working for newspapers lol.. hows things anyways?

Rich :)

At 5:00pm on 21st February 2008, Alina Enkeli said…: Thought I should say hello.

At 2:43am on 21st February 2008, Pearl said…: thank you so much for the warm welcome Andrew! I sure will be trying to participate more and learn from you all talented people...