Inver Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 Aw what a shame you missed out Linda, but good your friend won. So glad to hear you had a great day/evening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Gillard Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 I'm guest blogging later today with the 2nd part about the award event and I think you'll find it quite amusing. (And the jokes are on me.) It was harder to write a piece because I'd lost but I'd committed myself to it, win or lose. I'll post the link when the blog goes up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Gillard Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Btw, don't know if any of you are following me on Facebook (I took the plunge!) but I just posted some photos of the Book Festival event on my fan page. Facebook is probably the best place to keep up with my book news now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted August 26, 2009 Author Share Posted August 26, 2009 So you're now going to desert the forum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Gillard Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Nope, I'm trying to keep all the balls in the air, Michelle - Facebook, guest blogs, BCF and RISI. Needless to say I'm not getting much fiction written. The latest guest blog is up now http://tinyurl.com/la3v28 I didn't win so it came out kinda quirky... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Gillard Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 I can't remember if I've said this before but it probably bears saying again... As a writer without a publisher's PR budget - as a writer without even a publisher now! - I'm totally dependent on getting my books out there myself, trying to stir up interest for the ones in print and the ones still in manuscript. You can have little idea just what reader support means to authors under these very difficult & depressing circumstances. Every review, every PM and of course every book sale counts. So I love these forums and will continue to promote them and contribute to them as much as I can because I think they are such a positive force in the book world and such a tremendous support to struggling writers, published and unpublished. Hooray for BCF! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Oh Linda, you should have kept your daughter away from the comments page as I'm sitting here blubbing! Prize money? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weave Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Linda, you are a excellent writer and we all looking forward to reading your next book! We will always support you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Gillard Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Thanks, Gyre and Chrissy. Remember there's Ch 1 of unpublished book 4 on my website. I was wondering whether to post more of it on Facebook. But then I suppose you'd complain I was keeping you waiting for the rest of the book... If you're blubbing about my daughter's comment, Chrissy, how do you think I feel? (And we fought like cat & dog when she was a teenager.) She's missed author events of mine for all sorts of reasons - I was on Skye, she was at uni in Leeds; I was on the mainland, she was abroad. It's taken years to get us together for an event and I'm so glad it was the Edinburgh Festival. I think I was quite lucky she didn't jump up on to the stage and deck one of the judges. She works for the National Theatre of Scotland and if I could afford her I'd give her a job as my PA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Linda has just commented on Facebook that the book is now going to be available on CD, Audio cassette and MP3 read by Scots actress Cathleen McCarron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Oooh, that sounds too good to resist getting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Andrea~ Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 I finished this quite recently. I thought it was a lovely story and enjoyed it a lot. Once again the setting is quite lyrical and I was transported to the wilds of Scotland. The blindness of the lead character was very interesting. I don't usually do romance but I liked this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicx27 Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Linda Gillard is one of my favourite authors. In fact, her three books were my top three reads of 2009 (Star Gazing at 1, A Lifetime Burning at 2 and Emotional Geology at 3). I really think it's criminal that an author of this calibre is not better known and I'm desperate to read book 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Linda Gillard is one of my favourite authors. I really think it's criminal that an author of this calibre is not better known and I'm desperate to read book 4. Agree on all three points! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Gillard Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 Thanks, Nic27 and Chrissy. I am desperate to publish book 4! It was completed a long time ago. (I'm 2/3 of the way through book 5 now.) But my agent can't find a publisher for it. Editors don't think it's romantic enough, chick lit-ish enough, or they just don't "get" the book. The other reason they give for not taking it on is my sales record which they say doesn't justify them taking a chance. This despite the fact that STAR GAZING was short-listed for 2 awards! (But publishers aren't all that interested in awards unless they lead to big sales.) So I don't know when you'll get another book from me. We may be making some progress now with the (possible) films of STAR GAZING and EMOTIONAL GEOLOGY so I hope that might gee things up a bit. I'm also hoping that book 5 might find more favour with editors as it's more like STAR GAZING. (The much-rejected book 4 is similar to A LIFETIME BURNING, but not such a shocker.) So please continue to spread the word about my books and if you can, coerce people into buying STAR GAZING! Every little helps. In the meantime, I am really, really grateful for reader support. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceinwenn Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 Linda, what the ladies said is 100% accurate! I loved all 3 of your books - they were fantastic & I think the publishers are fools! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 (The much-rejected book 4 is similar to A LIFETIME BURNING, but not such a shocker.) Well you definitely have at least one sale lined up for book 4 when it gets published, as you know how much I enjoyed our discussion on ALB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 I'm already counting how many copies I will be getting as pressies (alongside my own precious copy!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Gillard Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 Thanks everyone. If only readers got to choose which books get published! I think the publishing world would be all the better for it. Readers are so much more adventurous than publishers give them credit for and readers don't need an author's books to be clones of each other. (But if they are, it's much easier for publishers to market them.) I hope your presents will be appreciated, Chrissy! I like to think that STAR GAZING has something to please everyone. Unlike A LIFETIME BURNING which has something to offend everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 I am half way through this book (due to recommendation on another thread) and am thoroughly enjoying it. I particularly like how Keir describes things to blind Marianne in terms of music and instruments, they are amazingly spot on and beautifully imaginative. My favourite characters though are Louisa, the older sister and Garth the Goth, a very unlikely but funny pair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted November 20, 2012 Share Posted November 20, 2012 House of Silence now available in bookie form...just ordered mine.. https://www.facebook.com/diane.will.92?ref=tn_tnmn#!/LindaGillardAuthor/posts/499963780034228?comment_id=5572121¬if_t=share_reply Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Just ordered my bookie copy of Untying the Knot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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