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On Friday, author and poet Tracey S.Rosenberg posted on the tricky subject of acknowledgements. Today she gives some practical advice to help you thank people without being twee.
I had a pretty full acknowledgements slate with my debut novel, The Girl in the Bunker and I could have included more. In general, categories include (but are not limited to):
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In today’s guest post, author and poet Tracey S.Rosenberg looks at Acknowledgements. If you’re genuinely overwhelmed, how do you express your thanks in a public setting without making yourself – or onlookers – cringe? Read on to find out…
The stereotypical Academy Award acceptance speech involves a tearful starlet clutching her statuette and blubbering thanks to her agent, producer, plastic surgeon, dental hygienist, and every driver who let her merge into the exit lane on the 405 that morning. Writers also have plenty of thanks to give, though we don’t often have the chance.
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Forsooth, tis November already, which means NaNoWriMo must be in full flow. An update, then, on my progress.
Thus far I have been writing every day and maintaining a pretty decent word count without actually knowing what I want the book to be. Although this makes my lovely stats page look pretty, overall I’m not sure whether this is a good thing or not.
Many of my fellow Wrimos have been tweeting fairly consistently to detail their struggle to reach the daily word count, and I am beginning to find this a bit worrying.
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Everyone in Edinburgh loves a book festival. There was one in Portobello at the weekend and there’s another just around the corner in the Old Town. Peggy Hughes (who Twitter users might know better as the Scottish Poetry Library’s @ByLeavesWeLive) was kind enough to write me a guest post about it.
The West Port Book Festival has reached the merry maturity of its fourth year, with another programme of cracking collaborations, tall tales, award-winners, stars of the future, dead people, open mics, and of course cakes. This year we’re popping up in October – Thursday 13th – Sunday 16th to be precise. We have flirted with running in different months (August for starters and seconds and June for thirds) and find that variety is the spice of life.
We have lost a few of our sterling venues from previous years. The Lot, the Roxy ArtHouse and the Illicit Still (scene of the cause of a monstrous festival-wide hangover in year 3) are all sorely missed, while the Owl & Lion Gallery has risen like a phoenix from the ashes and resurrected itself as the Owl & Lion Bindery, further up the hill in the West Port. We’ve got a new bookshop on the block in Pulp Fiction and are comforted by the never-changing Blue Blazer and its energy-restoring ham and cheese toasties. Some things change, but the ideas and vision behind the West Port Book Festival remain.
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Today I was emailed a press release from the Scottish Book Trust saying applications for the New Writers Awards 2011/12 are now open.
Which is just as well, because I’d forgotten all about it even though it’s something I should almost certainly apply for.
The New Writers Awards scheme was started up by Scottish Book Trust and Creative Scotland in 2008 with the aim of providing 8 unpublished writers with the financial support to let them concentrate on their work for a bit. Each recipient gets a cash award of £2,000 and nine months working with a professional mentor, which is very exciting and potentially life changing.
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