tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47855996408761485052024-03-13T16:33:10.300-07:00TRIFOLIUM BOOKS UKNews about Trifolium Books and their authorsConnie Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-45264691410782772842014-03-15T11:56:00.004-07:002014-03-15T11:59:21.083-07:00HACKING OFF HYDRA HEADS; PICKING UP DARK AGE THREADS<br />
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have been absent from this blog, and from Trifolium Books, for far too
long. Family affairs, my own writing, and my involvement with two local
Wigton organisations: the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WigtonsFountainGallery" target="_blank">Fountain Gallery</a> and the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JohnPeelTheatreWigton" target="_blank">John Peel Theatre</a>, have consumed nearly all my time for the last five months.<br />
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sometimes have the feeling that emails and paperwork are a sort of
hundred headed Hydra monster- deal with one and another hundred spring
up in its place. Flag another email and it simply pushes the other
important emails down the list! I was well on my way with this post
yesterday when just such an ugly head popped up. I chopped away with a
will, and finally I am back here!<br />
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first book of the Northern Kingdoms Trilogy is back in my sights and
from today, I aim to proof-read at least 10 pages a day until it is
done. The cover is nearly ready, and I am about to draw the name of the
person who gets the prize of the first copy off the press. (Reminder of
what that was all about <a href="http://trifoliumbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/cover-competition-and-liebster-award.html" target="_blank">here</a>)<br />
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<br />Connie Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-78950883592963472142013-09-09T02:04:00.000-07:002013-09-11T00:56:16.672-07:00TEN TIPS FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY FARI haven't written a blog post for ages- but I have been writing! Rehearsals are underway for a new play specially commissioned by Wigton Theatre Club to celebrate 60 years of uninterrupted productions. I was very excited when they asked me to write a comedy to celebrate this!<br />
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Last year I headed up a team of writers to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the town's Market Charter. <a href="http://conswords.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/sharing-pencil.html" target="_blank">I wrote about it here</a>, as I had a lot of enquiries about the team writing process. This year's team is smaller- just three of us from <a href="http://www.northcumbriascriptwriters.co.uk/" target="_blank">North Cumbria Scriptwriters</a>; and we have honed our team-working skills to the point where I feel I can pass on some tips- hence the title of this post. However, you will have to wait for a week or so, as, having co-written the play, I now have to direct it!<br />
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For those of my readers who are far away from this beautiful north west corner of England, Wigton is a small, lively town in the centre of the Solway Plain, just north of the Lake District and south of the Anglo Scottish border. I am privileged to live in what my Canadian cousin calls The North Country Far.<br />
PS Who was Jeremiah? <br />
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<br />Connie Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-21432497513274346662013-07-06T09:53:00.001-07:002013-07-07T09:43:50.289-07:00CAN'T DO MUCH ABOUT THE TITLE BUT ........ I THINK YOU'LL LOVE THE NEW COVER!<br />
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<i>This gripping tale, the first novel of a trilogy, is realistic
historical fiction, obviously based on sound scholarly research. That is
the finest kind. The setting is the north of England 180 years after
Arthur. The Angles are invading from the south, and the Picts from the
northwest. A prince learns to be a true man and a true king, and a
princess learns to survive and to forgive, as well as to be a great
healer. It is a convincing personal story set, accurately and
believeably, in a fascinating place and time. You can go and visit the
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I'd love to reassure jzdro - who has impeccable taste in literature- that the new edition
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<br />Connie Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-9953467733566219862013-07-01T14:00:00.000-07:002013-07-01T15:29:42.527-07:00BOOK GIVEAWAY & E-BOOK PROMO<b>BOOK ONE OF KATHLEEN HERBERT'S NORTHERN KINGDOMS IS ABOUT TO BE REPUBLISHED</b><br />
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its shoulders, watching him with </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">wide
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0.45pt;"><b>TRIFOLIUM BOOKS' EBOOK PRICE REDUCTION </b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">I have decided to reduce the price of the following three e-books too on Amazon for a limited period only: you can now buy them for around a pound, or under two dollars. That's cheaper than a cup of coffee! Hurry before I change my mind!</span></span></span><br />
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To celebrate the imminent re-publication of The Northern Kingdoms, we will be reducing the price of all our ebooks for a limited period. Watch this space! I have set the prices of Moon in Leo, Paths of Exile and The Boy with Two Heads to go down to under two dollars- about a pound in the UK. I will post links on here as soon as the price change comes into effect- so keep an eye out, then be quick as it will not be for long!Connie Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-62857059793068363892013-06-22T11:24:00.000-07:002014-03-15T11:08:31.902-07:00THERE IS STILL TIME TO HAVE YOUR SAY ...And to have a chance of winning one of the first copies!<br />
Designer Kate (also my daughter) is due to come and stay with us for a nice long visit bringing our new granddaughter for her first visit to the North Country Far. She will be doing all the design work on <i>Bride of the Spear </i>cover in exchange for some baby sitting!<br />
Thank you to all who have commented so far: you have shown us that we are on the right track, but criticisms and suggestions have been noted too- especially about readability of the text. Here is the cover- front and back, in its newest incarnation (I can't desist from tinkering) - with cooler colours for the text- suggested by an earlier commentator!<br />
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<br />Connie Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-55685917838976373072013-05-26T16:57:00.000-07:002013-05-26T16:57:08.818-07:00... GETTING CLOSER ...The final images- the moon pendant, Princess Taniu with her golden hair, and a warmer autumnal tinge to the landscape. Many thanks to photographer <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/icypics/" target="_blank">Ian</a> for amazing work!<br />
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The lettering is a very crude attempt by me- ultimately it will be left to designer <a href="http://amberimages.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Kate</a> to work on the layout, typography and manipulation of all the elements.<br />
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However- you still have a chance to win one of the very first copies of the new edition of Bride of the Spear- by leaving a comment on this blog, or on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TrifoliumBooks" target="_blank">Trifolium Books'</a> or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KathleenHerbert.Author" target="_blank">Kathleen Herbert's</a> Facebook page.<br />
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I'd be particularly interested to hear what potential readers have to say about the moon pendant, since I made it many years ago for Kathleen- to celebrate the original publication of the trilogy.<br />
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<br />Connie Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-40302504419965193502013-05-09T02:29:00.001-07:002013-05-09T02:51:44.853-07:00PROGRESS WITH THE COVERThanks for the comments so far- here is my very rough mock up of what the front cover might look like: <br />
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<br />Connie Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-25075684340872207312013-05-08T08:03:00.002-07:002014-03-15T11:19:49.983-07:00COVER, COMPETITION AND THE LIEBSTER AWARD<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Model found- check!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Waterfall found- check!</span></div>
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Given the traumas I went through searching the Lake District- on line and on foot- for the waterfall which exactly fitted Kathleen's description of the magical meeting place of Taniu and Owain, the choice was eventually easy. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The relevant passage in the book:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">He looked up and saw a figure
in a grey gown, gold <span style="letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">hair streaming across
its shoulders, watching him with </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">wide
grey eyes.</span></span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">It was as if sunlight, clear stream and grey stone had </span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">shaped themselves
into a girl. He had the wild thought </span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">that the Goddess herself, the Lady of the hill
circles and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">the holy springs, had risen from the stream to his
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The beautiful and very accessible Moss Force at the top of Newlands Hause was admired by Coleridge-</div>
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<i>It is so near a perpendicular that it would have appeared to fall--but
it is indeed so fearfully savage, & black, & jagged, that it
tears the flood to pieces--and one great black Outjutment divides the
water, & overbrows & keeps uncovered a long slip of jagged black
Rock beneath, which gives a marked character to the whole force. What a sight it is to look down on such a Cataract!</i></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS5rBCx45MGvk3JxzFkfJNE2okdu0xcfLKPGagIhSNQqc30OA24t0rBRuBN9KG7iBSVGRQF12fkXBWvYrgFeOWFD3AoFf5OU8TUYXY3FQVR27j1JN0-D1vE2hti2S2OR4FlF8vk8CR7Yhr/s1600/IMG_9855.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS5rBCx45MGvk3JxzFkfJNE2okdu0xcfLKPGagIhSNQqc30OA24t0rBRuBN9KG7iBSVGRQF12fkXBWvYrgFeOWFD3AoFf5OU8TUYXY3FQVR27j1JN0-D1vE2hti2S2OR4FlF8vk8CR7Yhr/s200/IMG_9855.JPG" height="150" width="200" /></a>The photo shoot went well- apart from Ian getting wet feet and Kathryn a cold bottom<i>, </i>and eventually the sun came out and the Raven cawed us his blessing. </div>
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In fact the sun became so insistent that Ian tried using the old umbrella from the boot of my car to defeat the flare. The struggle to control it and the camera landed him in the beck!<br />
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Ian is a perfectionist. He would happily do the whole shoot again, but time is pressing and I am delighted with his final photograph.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now here's the competition bit:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">A copy of <i>Bride of the Spear, </i>hot off the press<span style="font-size: small;">, to the person who gives me the best feedback on the<span style="font-size: small;"> cover image I intend to use<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">:</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some specific questions: </span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Should we see a little of Kathryn's face, or does the back view leave us more intrigued?</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I know that there is some evidence of plaid/check weaving in sixth- century Britain, and visually, I like the way the dark check works with the light grey flowing cloak which echoes the water, but I worry that it looks too modern. Opinions please?</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Should we tidy the hair? We will certainly lighten it to a reddish gold.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does the image convey a sense of mystery?</span></span></li>
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into a girl</i>? </span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: x-small; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: no;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: .4pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">And
finally, the Leibster Award! I am extremely honoured by being nominated
for this award not once, not twice, but three times- something almost
magical there! I have been so swamped with work since that I haven't
written a post for well over a month, and so felt I really didn't
deserve it. However, now that I've written this one, and now that the
cover of Bride of the Spear is well on its way, I am ready to tackle my
Liebster post, so thank you </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-no-proof: no;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: .4pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://edwardthesecond.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Kathryn Warner</a></span></span>, <a href="http://carlanayland.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Carla Nayland</a> and <a href="http://bardsnest.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Beth</a>- my next post will honour you!</span></span></span></div>
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The waterfall in the picture above is in Caldbeck, and is in fact the cold river from which the village takes its name. Although this is not the waterfall which will eventually appear on the cover of Bride of the Spear, it makes a striking design with the moon pendant.<br />
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I made this pendant for Kathleen when she was a highly successful author in the 1980s. A moon necklace, with the three aspects of the moon- waxing, full and waning, (representing the triple aspects of the Mother Goddess- Maiden, Mother, Crone) plays an important role in Queen of the Lightning, and this was my modern interpretation of it.<br />
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</style>The Mothers are an important presence in the Northern Kingdoms Trilogy, and I feel the design is timeless and iconic. Kathleen thought so too, and can be seen wearing it in some of her author photographs.<br />
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So .... one element of the cover design is settled. Meanwhile, the search for the waterfall continues. Designer <a href="http://amberimages.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Kate</a> is on board as is photographer <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/icypics/" target="_blank">Ian Carroll</a><br />
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Connie Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-7440930180884075382013-03-02T02:08:00.000-08:002013-03-02T02:08:06.273-08:00MOON IN LEO ARRIVES!Just over two years since its publication on the 14th February 2011, we brought home two copies of Moon in Leo, which we are reading at Wigton Library's Book Group this month.<br />
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I am really looking forward to hearing what other members of the group think of it- there is always plenty of lively debate and disagreement- and I hope they won't hold back!Connie Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-23652877834067729962013-02-25T12:01:00.000-08:002013-02-25T12:01:27.197-08:00BRIEF UPDATE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Can you see Taniu and Owain meeting here? Today we scouted more locations for the cover of Bride of the Spear. This is Carrock Beck on the Caldbeck Fells. Next Candidate is Roughton Gill- also on the Caldbeck Fells but further west.<br />
Meanwhile, I'm delighted to announce that I have been able to pay a substantial cheque to Carlisle Overseas Aid Trust for e-book royalties, earned by <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moon-in-Leo-ebook/dp/B0053WRM10/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1361820848&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Moon in Leo</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/THE-ONCE-FUTURE-QUEEN-ebook/dp/B00850VKH4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1361822155&sr=1-1" target="_blank">The Once and Future Queen</a>. Kathleen elected to have her royalties paid to a charity.<br />
PS The Once and Future Queen is now available for <a href="http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/The-Once-and-Future-Queen/book-0VLPTpVYvEK33AA7GOHGwQ/page1.html" target="_blank">Kobo</a> too!Connie Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-38010363261041615052013-02-20T13:59:00.002-08:002013-02-21T00:46:00.667-08:00THE NORTHERN KINGDOMS TRILOGY<style>
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fifty years. The last British kings of the North are fighting for survival in a
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and unloved daughter of King Loth of Lothian, is out gathering herbs when she meets a
handsome young huntsman, unaware that he is Prince Owain of Cumbria. The two
promise to meet in the spring, but when the awaited time comes and the King of
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published in their correct order. They have been variously known as The
Northumbrian Trilogy and The Cumbrian Trilogy. They have a much wider
geographical setting than either suggests, ranging from Lothian and
Strathclyde, through Deira and Gwynedd to Mercia so I think they deserve a more
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">HITHERTO UNDISCOVERED NOVEL BY KATHLEEN HERBERT </span></b><i> </i></span></span></span><br />
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written, and completely planned, amongst the many notebooks and boxes of
papers which we rescued when Kathleen's house was sold. The book is set in Cumbria in the early<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>14th Century in the reign of Edward II. Trifolium Books' editor, Mike Jensen, is working on reconstructing it, and we hope to publish this exciting ne<span style="font-size: small;">w find during the coming year.</span></span></span><br />
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photos of places which are important in the book. The heroine is Julian
le Bret, a retainer of the powerful Clifford family, whose stronghold,
Brougham Castle, plays an important role in the story. Just as we are
fascinated by the Arthurian legends today, so were people in the 14th
Century. Our characters even enact scenes from the much loved stories,
and, living as they did near Eamont Bridge, they had the perfect theatre
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">This ancient earthwork predates Arthur by at least 2000 years, but it has always been known as <a href="http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/king-arthurs-round-table.htm" target="_blank">King Arthur's Round Table.</a> In the picture below, by kind permission of the landlord of the Crown Hotel, Eamont Bridge- just across the road from his inn, we can see that it was a perfect<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>circular amphitheatre.</span></td></tr>
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After the Arthurian celebrations, Julian finds her way to near-by <a href="http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/mayburgh-henge/" target="_blank">Mayburgh Henge</a>, another impressive ancient Cumbrian earthwork.<br />
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">The entrance to <span style="font-size: small;">Mayburgh Henge. The distinctive shape of Saddleba<span style="font-size: small;">ck can be seen between the ends of the 3 metre high walls which surround the huge arena.</span></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption"></td><td class="tr-caption"></td><td class="tr-caption"></td><td class="tr-caption"></td><td class="tr-caption"></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">The keep of <a href="http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/brougham-castle/" target="_blank">Brougham Castle</a>. Julian looks out from the top floor to gaze at the <span style="font-size: small;">Western Fells </span></span></td><td class="tr-caption"></td></tr>
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The sun was setting over the Lake District fells as we left, full of excitement about <i>The Ghosts of Camelot</i>, and feeling we knew a little bit more about Julian, Roger Clifford, and the other characters who lived their lives in this part of the Eden Valley.<br />
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Connie Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-32841203669636827372012-12-25T11:14:00.001-08:002013-02-11T05:33:20.277-08:00LOVE IS NEVER LOST, NEVER WASTED, NEVER DIES<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">This post is for and about Kathleen- because she is with us, and not with us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">When I
mentioned Kathleen Herbert at my last Old Students' Reunion in June 2012, I was amazed and
delighted by the warmth that I received on behalf of my friend- that unique and
astonishing person Miss Kathleen May Herbert. She had touched so many lives,
and changed them for the better, according to the many people who came to me
and wanted to talk about how she had had a profound influence on them. She was a charismatic and caring teacher, a warm and witty friend and a subtle and moving writer. All that has gone, but what remains is a gentle, charming but slightly bewildered lady. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Some
years before I got to know Kathleen really well, she nursed her mother through
terminal cancer. Several years later, she did the same for her father. At this
time I had returned to my school in East London to teach English and she was my Head of Department,
but her father needed her and so she gave up the job in the school she loved,
and went to work in a Catholic High School near her home.
She is fondly remembered by pupils and staff from that institution too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Meanwhile,
in 1982, she published her first novel, <i>The
Lady of the Fountain</i>. In 1983, her second novel, <i>Queen of the Lightning</i> won the Historical Novel Prize awarded
annually in memory of Georgette Heyer. Bodley Head also published the
sequel, <i>Ghost in the Sunlight</i> in 1986.
At around the same time, <i>The Lady of the
Fountain</i> was republished as <i>Bride
of the Spear</i>. All three novels are set in Cumbria, Northumbria and the
Borders of Scotland, during the period of upheaval and immigration following
the withdrawal of Roman troops in the fifth century. This period is often
referred to as The Dark Ages. Kathleen prefers the term Heroic Age.</span></span></div>
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three books sold well and were translated into German and French. They were
published in paperback by Corgi in 1989.<br />
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the success of the Cumbrian Trilogy, she concentrated on her scholarly research
and produced several volumes on Anglo Saxon history and legend, which are still
read and respected by a small but enthusiastic audience. Melvyn Bragg
acknowledged one of them, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spellcraft-Old-English-Heroic-Legends/dp/0951620991/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360506540&sr=1-1-spell" target="_blank"><i>Spellcraft</i></a>,
as a most helpful source in his Afterword to <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Credo-Lord-Melvyn-Bragg/dp/0340667060/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360506670&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><i>Credo</i></a>, his historical novel about St Bega, set in Cumbria in the
Heroic Age.<span style="font-size: small;"> (<i>Spellcraft</i> is still in print, now called <i>English <span style="font-size: small;">H</span>eroic <span style="font-size: small;">L</span>egen<span style="font-size: small;">ds</span></i>, and available on Amazon and from the publisher <a href="http://www.asbooks.co.uk/" target="_blank">Anglo Saxon Books</a>, as are <i>Peace-Weavers and Shield-</i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Maidens </i>and <i>Looking for the Lost Gods of England)</i></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></div>
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retired in 1984 at age 60 and was in her prime,
while her books were selling well. She devoted herself to studying,
lecturing and writing. She learnt Welsh in order to read The Mabinogion and
other early British epic tales, and she also studied Hungarian. I have the
impression that the main reason she did this was because Hungarian is such a
notoriously difficult language, and she relished the challenge!</span></span></div>
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spent a great deal of time tramping the hills of her beloved North Country,
particularly Cumbria, researching on foot the backgrounds for her novels.</span></span></div>
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April 1994 she had a massive stroke. Her tenacity, strength and humour enabled
her to rebuild her life and carry on for a while, but I didn't fully realise
how much damage had been done until some years later.</span></span></div>
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friendship with Kathleen has lasted for well over forty years. Like all
friendships, it has changed, as I married and had children (to whom she became
a much loved and affectionate "Auntie") and she became a well
respected author. There were gaps, high points and low points. During the last
few years there have been low points indeed, as the stroke started to take its
toll, and she became prey to depression and delusion. During those dark years,
we met rarely, and she allowed no-one into her house. She was often despairing
and felt she was being watched. She bemoaned her own incapability- on good days
with a joke, on bad days with tears. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">We had many long phone calls (I
moved to Cumbria in 1980 while she stayed in London) and she frequently
referred to her "Furness novel" and asked me if I could help her
"sort it out". This was a fourth novel, completed in the late
eighties or early nineties, which her publisher, Bodley Head, thought was her
best, but in the economic climate of the time, they declined to publish it, as
it was long, and not set in the South East! She said that a well meaning friend
had offered to type it and that he or she had done a disastrous job of it. It
sounded as if they had not just typed it badly, but lost some of it as well!</span></span></span><br />
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reiterated my offer to work on the book for her, and try to reconstruct it if I
could, but although we tried to arrange meetings, something always happened to
prevent it, and it wasn't until much later that I realized just how poorly she
had become. She became more and more despairing and felt she was being watched.
I reassured her as best I could, but she was reluctant to meet and I felt
powerless. In 2009 she wrote to me, asking me if I could get the book
published, and saying that it had got messed up when she was ill. At that
point, I suggested she put it all into a box and send it to me, registered
post. It took another year to persuade her to meet me and hand it over.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Finally, in June 2010, </span><span lang="EN-US">gathering all her
strength and all her pages, she managed to bundle the manuscript into two large
carrier bags- "bags for life" - a lovely irony. And she gathered
enough courage and energy to meet me outside Burnt Oak station with the bags. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">I hadn't seen her for several years and</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #c0504d;"> </span>I hardly recognised her. A striking and lovely woman in
her prime, with pale red-gold hair and a sense of the dramatic, Kathleen loved
beautiful and exotic fabrics, rich colours and textures, and was always
immaculately groomed. Now she was
thin and unkempt, with slightly grubby fingernails, and a stain or two down her
coat. I said hello and touched her on the shoulder and we embraced briefly<span lang="EN-US">, but she didn't want me to see her: "I
want you all to remember me as I was," she said. </span></span></span><br />
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great energy and optimism, when she rode on the wave that had buoyed her up to
gather her book together but it was a very brief upturn in what proved to be a
rapid decline in her health and spirits. She had been neglecting the physical
world of eating, drinking and sleeping until she was found wandering, far from
home with a dislocated shoulder, and taken to the nearest hospital<span style="color: #c0504d;">. </span>Although she is now physically comfortable, a
second stroke, and the ravages of self- neglect and age mean that her mental
capacity is declining. </span>Her
once powerful mind is now dark and clouded. It almost seems that every time I see
her, a few more lights have gone out, and yet occasionally someone pulls the
curtains open a crack and a beam of brightness strikes the back wall and I see
her and hear her as she was. Sadly, these intervals are becoming more and more
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seems to have been serious deterioration since that school </span>reunion in June 2012.
Immediately after the meeting I was able to tell her of how many people had
said she changed their lives and how much she meant to them. That certainly got
through and tears ran down her cheeks. I wept too for the loss of beauty, of
intelligence, the sadness of humanity- <i>sunt
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Trifolium Books UK in January 2011, and published <i>Moon in Leo</i> on 14th February 2011. The sorting of the manuscript
and its eventual publication is another story, which you can read <a href="http://royaltyfreefictionary.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/moon-in-leo-by-kathleen-herbert.html" target="_blank">elswehere</a>. </span></span></span></div>
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Furness, on the southern edge of the Lake District, but encompasses the whole
of Britain and Europe. The book has received excellent reviews, and is selling steadily. It is available from Amazon and The Book Depository worldwide, as an e-book from Amazon, and from any good bookshop.</span></span><br />
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have all Kathleen's notes and literary papers and am gradually working through
them. I will be publishing some of her essays and lecture notes, to allow a
wider public to benefit from her scholarship and wisdom. Her retelling of Guinevere's story is already available as an e-book: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/THE-ONCE-FUTURE-QUEEN-ebook/dp/B00850VKH4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1356389377&sr=1-1" target="_blank">The Once and Future Queen</a>. </span></span></span><br />
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the early novels as <i>The Northern Kingdoms
Trilogy</i>, and Mike and I are hoping to publish an entirely new novel, <i>Ghosts of Camelot</i>, which we found, half
written, and completely planned, amongst the many notebooks and boxes of papers which we rescued when Kathleen's house was sold. Although she was delighted at the publication of Moon in Leo, and still has a copy beside her bed, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Kathleen is now beyond understanding what needs to be done to bring this fifth novel to publication. I can do nothing for her now but make sure her work reaches the public as I believe she would have wished. </span> </span></span></span></div>
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The really great news I want to share is that Cumbria Libraries have added Moon in Leo to their Book Groups' Reading List, so I am planning a series of questions for reading groups.<br />
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After a summer (I use the term loosely) of other things, I have come back to blogging and writing. We are planning visits to schools and libraries to promote The Boy with Two Heads. Author Julia is offering readings and workshops free for the remainder of this year, and as her publisher, I am offering a prize for excellent pieces of creative writing by students following a visit and reading. I look forward to posting students' writing on this blog.<br />
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Mike and I visited our grandson's school in Swindon, and read passages from Julia's book. We had a wonderful welcome and enjoyed the lively debate and interest.<br />
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We received an amazing thank you in the form of a beautiful hand made card with messages from all the pupils in Tracy's class. I want to share this with you, and say a big thank you to Tracy and her class of fab kids. <br />
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<br />Connie Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-36680957868537690192012-08-10T12:07:00.000-07:002012-08-10T12:07:24.734-07:00CAN WE ASK A FAVOUR?Julia and I are excited and delighted that so many readers have downloaded the free ebook of The Boy with Two Heads, and I am looking forward to gaining more readers on Sunday, when <i><b>four</b></i> e-books will be free to download from midnight to midnight PST (8.00 am on Sunday to 8.00 am on Monday here in the UK)<br />
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Can we ask you to do something in return for your free books? Please let us have some feedback. A comment/review on Amazon or Goodreads would be very welcome- and please be honest!Connie Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-40433678776628151362012-08-07T01:22:00.001-07:002012-08-07T09:38:10.948-07:00MORE FREE BOOKS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The London 2012 Olympics end next weekend. The Free Download for <i><b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Boy-Two-Heads-ebook/dp/B008JIRQWK/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1344356797&sr=1-1" target="_blank">THE BOY WITH TWO HEADS</a></b></i> was so popular that author Julia Newsome wants to give her young fans another chance to read it free. So next Sunday 12th August we will celebrate the end of a splendid Olympics by offering not just one free book, but four:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Editor's Choice Historical Novels Review</span></h2>
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<b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Paths-of-Exile-ebook/dp/B005IC16U8/ref=tmm_kin_title_0" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>PATHS OF EXILE</i></span></a> </b>is a wonderful story, one that conjures up this long-gone
age in extraordinary detail and reveals a profound understanding of its
politics, cultures, and religions based on extensive research. It may be
true, as Nayland admits, that “solid facts are rare indeed in 7th-century
Britain”, but these characters—some real, others pure fiction—are
so solid and credible that they will stay with you long after you turn the
last page....<br />
Full review on the <a href="http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/ec-aug-2009.htm" target="_blank">Historical
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At the beginning of our journey through life in the 1670's, we meet our
heroine Rosamund. Having sent out a `spiritual call' for her twin
Stephen, she is waiting for him to return from his Grand Tour of Europe.
Her father is an alchemist and we know she is eagerly awaiting her
brothers' return to complete the Sacred Marriage. As she sees him
crossing the dangerous sands in Morecombe Bay, something happens to
unsettle her and Stephen's homecoming is not as joyous as she imagined. ...<br /><br />I
really enjoyed this story - the way we get to experience how life was
lived in the 17th century (the author has painstakingly researched); how
the politics of the day are portrayed and the underlying rebellion; the
celebrations of the Sabbats (Sabbats are the yearly cycle of the
earth's seasons and would have been important during the time the story
is set); the magic; the characters and the setting!<br /><br />If you like historical fiction, then you will enjoy <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moon-in-Leo-ebook/dp/B0053WRM10/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1344356568&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><i><b>MOON IN LEO</b></i></a></span><br />
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And finally, after three really big, meaty reads- a little gem: a previously unknown and unpublished tale, by respected scholar and
novelist Kathleen Herbert, who retells Guinevere's story from her point
of view.<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/THE-ONCE-FUTURE-QUEEN-ebook/dp/B00850VKH4" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"> <i><b>THE ONCE AND FUTURE QUEEN</b></i></span></a> gives us a a view of Guinevere which speaks to our age.<br />
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<br />Connie Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-8419076223596502392012-08-04T16:40:00.000-07:002012-08-04T16:40:04.058-07:00PRICING OF E-BOOKS<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrAdR6_zTz_YTtmFY1J49EMRAceFDAW3DJdIqpFutamfV8FlOQHqaUhR3M7Mf9E-fJcURdncICv80DtE86AJ6t_1Ku2WfB5BxygtZMoxxuKWuoYGaMhbSImG62JRjp9R0-zjsFMFRCFksG/s1600/Cover+QotL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrAdR6_zTz_YTtmFY1J49EMRAceFDAW3DJdIqpFutamfV8FlOQHqaUhR3M7Mf9E-fJcURdncICv80DtE86AJ6t_1Ku2WfB5BxygtZMoxxuKWuoYGaMhbSImG62JRjp9R0-zjsFMFRCFksG/s200/Cover+QotL.jpg" width="122" /></a>Now, while I am offering one of my e-books as a free download, seems an appropriate time for me to add my few penn'orths to this contentious debate. <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9449682/E-books-sold-for-price-of-a-cup-of-tea-are-harming-industry-says-author.html#disqus_thread" target="_blank">This article and its comments</a> in today's Telegraph got me thinking. <br />
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Let me start with my experience as a publisher, so that what I say can be put into context. I run a new and very small- OK micro- family publishing business. Trifolium Books UK has been in business now for just over 18 months.<br />
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I started the business initially because I was not prepared to spend hours, days and weeks of my life trying to find an agent and/or publisher for my friend Kathleen Herbert who had been a highly successful, mainstream published, author in the 1980s. Some of the story <a href="http://royaltyfreefictionary.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/moon-in-leo-by-kathleen-herbert.html" target="_blank">is here</a>, thanks to Deborah Swift, and my <a href="http://trifolium1.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/launch-of-trifolium-books.html" target="_blank">full reasons for setting up the company are here. </a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibVhf4sU_N768m5G09_HDoI6PwehuW7108A-BFeGSpiNhltcozE2qfaB7pnBlR_s9odYY8uPK2Fp0hnLBpUgF2CxBPNf4iGunBOXhyphenhyphenS9Pu2fGEzRHsUAIuYpKUiJ3LXmkGkycByaemVD80/s1600/20110214_Steve_0008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibVhf4sU_N768m5G09_HDoI6PwehuW7108A-BFeGSpiNhltcozE2qfaB7pnBlR_s9odYY8uPK2Fp0hnLBpUgF2CxBPNf4iGunBOXhyphenhyphenS9Pu2fGEzRHsUAIuYpKUiJ3LXmkGkycByaemVD80/s200/20110214_Steve_0008.JPG" width="150" /></a>I use new technology- Print on Demand- for my books, which has many great advantages- no wasted copies, no remaindered books, excellent quality printing, world-wide distribution, just as many copies as anyone wants- but one disadvantage: each individual copy costs more than your average trade paperback, and a lot more than mass market 3 for the price of 2, books. In all other ways, I am exactly the same as a traditional publisher: I offer editing, design and promotional services to my authors and don't expect any money from them!<br />
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Pricing of the books on Amazon and the world wide market is related to the cost of production, so longer books cost more- and actually this seems very fair to me. I price the paperbacks so that Amazon and the big distributors get what they need and demand; so that I can pay the authors a fair royalty; and so that I can have a tiny chance of making a small profit in the very long run. At the moment, I am happy not to lose money- but then, I don't count my time, nor does any other member of my family team, so it's a bit of an artificial picture. I have no problems with local bookshops- I can supply them on a sale or return basis so that they can sell them at a slightly lower price than Amazon etc.<br />
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Now comes the contentious bit- pricing the Kindle versions. Apart from our time, there are up-front costs of the print version- upload, proof copies, revision fees, ISBNs, physical copies for author, designer, British Library etc and enough copies to cover promotion, reviews and local suppliers. When I've done all that, the digital conversion and upload for Kindle (again, apart from time) is free, so I can sell the e copy cheaper. In the case of <i>Moon in Leo</i>, Kathleen and I feel very strongly that we want the book to be read, as it has such a powerful message for us all today.<br />
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This is an opportunity for me to offer these books at a lower price- especially as some of them are rather long. For example <i>Moon in Leo</i> has to retail at £11.99 on Amazon, or I would be paying to publish it, so I can offer the digital version at an affordable price, sell more copies <i><b>and</b></i> pay the authors a straight 50% of the takings, which will probably go higher if and when I sell more.<br />
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I know that I am lucky enough to have a pension that means I don't have to earn money from the business I am passionate about- at least in the short term. So- I am a traditional publisher in some ways- though not a mainstream one, and like the big publishers, I act as a gatekeeper.<br />
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Is that the main difference between traditional publishers and self-publishers? Is it this gatekeeping (or lack of it) that worries everyone about self publishing? Well let me tell you- I have read some truly awful books- badly written, badly edited, or seemingly not edited at all, full of plot holes, cliches, dull and unbelievable characters, too many trite adjectives and inappropriate similes- and many were self published; but a shocking number were main stream published. I would buy the argument that we need these big publishing companies if they didn't publish vapid and trivial rubbish like books about non existent meerkats and ghost written biographies of teenage nonentities who are the darlings of readers of Hello Magazine. Most TV, many many films, and much recorded music is utter rubbish- but we are grown ups aren't we? Can't we be our own gatekeepers? We can switch off the telly or the radio, and walk out of the cinema. Why, in the case of books, do we need Nanny Publisher to tell us what we can and can't read? OK so we will have to kiss a lot of frogs before we find our book princes without her to guide us, but with books, I think most of us experienced readers need do no more than peck it on the cheek before we commit. There's no need to go for an all out snog with a bad book!<br />
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I think though, that the main point is that the self publishers who sell cheap are damaging sales of mainstream ebooks. I have a feeling that the big publishers are over pricing their ebooks in an ostrich like move to try and make us buy only paper books. It's often possible on Amazon, to buy the real book cheaper. Whatever the true explanation for this it is counter-intuitive to buy a virtual book which is dearer than a real one.<br />
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I buy ebooks for lots of reasons- one is that I don't risk much money to try a new author, and like many of the commentators in the Telegraph I have read authors I might not have come across because of this. Another reason is that, for good reads that I enjoy at the time, but probably won't read again, I am not cluttering up already bulging bookshelves. However, if I read a Kindle book I think is A Keeper- I go straight out and buy a real version- preferably from my local indie bookshop! I did this for Rohinton Mistry's <i>A Fine Balance</i> and happily payed full price for both versions- but this is a five star + + + book!<br />
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So- how do we small indie publishers know how to price our ebooks? We neither want to under-value the work of our authors, nor put off potential readers. When Julia and I discussed the digital price of <i>The Boy with Two Heads</i> we decided to price it at less than the price of the adult historical fiction so that young people could afford to buy it with their pocket money. In this discussion between author and publisher, who was being favoured? Author, publisher or reader? Or are we all part of the same community? Take a look at <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_adv_b?search-alias=stripbooks&unfiltered=1&__mk_en_GB=%C5M%C5Z%D5%D1&field-keywords=&field-author=&field-title=&field-isbn=&field-publisher=trifolium+books+uk&node=&field-binding_browse-bin=&field-subject=&emi=&field-dateop=&field-datemod=&field-dateyear=&sort=&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.x=39&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.y=15" target="_blank">my books on Amazon</a>, and tell me what you think.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Author Julia Newsome will be at the London 2012 Olympics this weekend- see if you can catch her wearing her distinctive t-shirt</span>. </div>Connie Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17286314896270215904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4785599640876148505.post-40097791026567773212012-06-21T10:39:00.002-07:002012-06-21T10:39:32.433-07:00SUNSHINE IN PENRITH: CARNIVAL IN CARLISLE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today's drizzle and gloom contrasts strongly with yesterday's brightness. In Penrith, all was peace and sunshine as we sat in the wonderful Wordsworth Bookshop beside the church.<br />
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We had to leave Penrith long before the torch was due to arrive; when we got to Carlisle we found crowds and capers, and a bookshop with most of its window taken over by The Boy.<br />
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An air of excitement built up until the torch came through with its many vehicles and razzmataz, but the human joy still shone through.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;">"You don't get to the
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">On the days the Olympic torch
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In this year of the London
Olympics, young and old alike are excited by the romance and the endeavour, the
sweat and the tears of the greatest sporting event ever devised. With its
themes of striving for excellence, self knowledge, and the conflict between
family duty and self realisation it will appeal not just to young adults but to
everyone who remembers what it is to be young and ambitious.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Perfectly timed for this summer's Games, Julia Newsome takes
us back 2,400 years to the early Olympics. We follow young Themis in his
struggle to get to the Olympics and triumph there. What is remarkable is the
way in which ancient Greece and the Games themselves are brought to life in
riveting detail. Themis's story is cleverly intertwined with that of modern-day
Suzanne in her parallel efforts to reach the 2012 Olympics. I learnt more about
Greece and the Greeks from this book than I did in two years of living there.
This is a great tribute to the author's research and makes the book a gripping
read. The cover proclaims 'You Don't Get to the Olympics unless You're the
Best.'. You don't write a book like this unless you also are!</span></i></div>
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Cumbrian Author Julia Newsome will be signing copies of <i>The Boy with Two Heads</i> in Penrith, Carlisle and Wigton next week as part of the Olympic Torch celebrations.</div>
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Wednesday 20th June</div>
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Thursday 21st June</div>
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This is a little morsel- but a tasty one. A single, richly complex, chocolate; a perfectly formed truffle dish; a minute crystal glass of a rare ice-wine-</div>
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We are privileged to be the custodians of all Kathleen's literary papers, and are gradually trawling through to see what there is of general interest. This retelling of Guinevere's story is a little gem. Written at the end of the last century, you could say it embodies Kathleen's ideas about feminism, and the almost completely male perspectives handed down to us in legend and history.</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/ONCE-FUTURE-QUEEN-ebook/dp/B00850VKH4/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337755996&sr=1-2" target="_blank">The Once and Future Queen</a> is just a foretaste of riches yet to come. </div>
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The background image for the cover is based on this lovely pre-Raphaelite painting by John Collier: <i>Queen Guinevere's maying</i>. Of course, what you will find inside is an altogether tougher Guinevere than this traditional image would suggest.</div>
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