Lois Elsden
WRITER
No hot fuzz in Wells
Anyone who has seen the Simon Pegg and Nick Frost film ‘Hot Fuzz’ will surely have noticed the lovely setting… it’s not Sandford in Gloucestershire, it’s Wells in Somerset. We visited the other day and had coffee and cake in the grounds of the bishop’s palace!
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Writing a novel in a month… dare I?
Thanks to a WordPress blog, National Novel writing month has been drawn to my attention… http://4amwriter.com/2012/10/22/writers-start-your-engines/ I’ve read about it before but never more than vaguely contemplated doing it. However, having decided that ‘Loving Judah’ will be published on October 31st, maybe I should set myself a new challenge for November. I have decided my next published book will be ‘Night Vision’… but that comes from […]
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Reigate
These charming nineteenth or early twentieth century photographs were taken by the famous Francis Frith of Reigate for the brewers, White, Tomkins and Courage, and I would guess they were on a calendar. Reigate was the nearest large town to Bletchingley where the Colgates had lived since the middle of the nineteenth century; these places would have been very familiar to them!
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And here’s the last one, photo … with thanks to Bodhisattvaintraining! http://bodhisattvaintraining.wordpress.com/
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Here’s another idea for the cover of ‘Loving Judah’ – any thoughts, comments, criticisms? The scan is a little disappointing – but what about the image of the statue, is that better than the previous dappled and fuzzy ones?
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I’m a little further on with deciding on a cover for ‘Judah’… can I have your honest opinions please? Don’t worry, I won’t be upset if you say they’re rubbish and you hate them and it would put you off buying my book… but it would be helpful if you’d say why you think so!
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