Dear Shed Dwellers,
I am now up to 97%. Thank you so, so much to everyone who has subscribed. It is worth mentioning that people can still subscribe once I am past 100% and they will still get their name in the back of the book – although there is a cut off point when that is no longer possible. You’ll get an e-mail warning you of the cut off date.
I went to meet Unbound last week read more…
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Dear Shed Dwellers,
Happy New Year! Just to let you know that I am in the Daily Mail today with my daughter Hope.
I have to say I’m not a great fan of the Daily Mail but I am very grateful for the publicity. Also the people who took the photogpraphs were absolutely lovely and incredibly professional. They spent so long sprucing me up that you won’t actually recognise me. The camera does read more…
Dear Shed Dwellers,
I am up to 72 % …… and I have just been awarded the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for 2014 by The Royal Society of Literature. I went to the award ceremony in London last night. The judges were Dame Margaret Drabble, Tibor Fischer and Helen Oyememi.
A.L. Kennedy read one of her stories and I then read mine (which is called Ray The Rottweiler).
You can find details read more…
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Dear Shed Dwellers,
Am glad to note that it is getting pretty cosy in this shed …….
Just thought I’d send you a link for a review of my book which was written by Isabel Costello of The Literary Sofa. (My blog post is above, her review is below).
http://isabelcostelloliterarysofa.com/2014/10/14/guest-author-alice-jolly-on-crowdfunding-how-to-make-new-friends-and-lose-old-ones read more…
Dear Shed Dwellers,
Yesterday was big day because I reached the 50% mark. That means that I’ve raised over £6,000 in less than six weeks – and all this for a book which is not (let’s face it) about the easiest subject.
Thank you all so, so much. As the pledges come in, I keep thinking that I will e-mail each person personally to thank them. And I do want to do that. But actually I read more…
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Dear Shed Dwellers,
I have reached 37%. I was going to send a message when I had reached a handy round number (like 35%) but the numbers have moved so fast over the last few days that I missed my moment!
I have been doing all sorts of things to promote the book. Below is an article which apeared on Mumsnet.
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/guest_posts/a2186105-Guest-post-Surrogacy-transformed read more…
Dear Shed Dwellers,
Just a quick post to say a huge THANK YOU to the 106 people who have subscribed to my book so far. It is lovely to see so many names that I know and equally to see so many that I don’t. I’m very confident that I’m going to get to 100% and am looking forward to the book being published in spring. You all definitely invited to the party! The book is largely written but read more…
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