Ingo

Many, many thanks to my friend Parki for proofreading my manuscript before I send it back to my agent. I'm also working my way through the entire mss again myself, this time reading everything out loud. Sounds silly, but I find it difficult to proofread my own writing after I've worked on it for so long otherwise. I find the read-aloud method also useful for checking for sentence flow.



I've decided to shut down Blatherchat for good. I've been getting way too much spam, and UBB's interface only lets me delete posts one at a time...a major pain when I get two dozen spam posts in one day, or come back after a vacation. I already had to delete a number of forums because the hard disk space was costing me/us too much on Samurai.

Anyway, if you'd like to post comments, please do so under the appropriate post in Livejournal. I'd also be interested in hearing from any non-LJ out there who have comment boards re: spam control. So far, the only way to control spam comments seems to be a moderated comment system but that also seems to be a major pain to me, having to approve every comment that gets posted. Suggestions/advice welcome! For now, I think I'll just stick to Livejournal comments.

Just finished reading:

Ingo by Helen Dunmore (Harpercollins, 2006). I recently picked up this new novel for young people from The Flying Dragon. An engrossing read (I got hooked right away), and the world that the author has created is entirely believable. I'd rather not say more about the book because I don't want to give too much away. Hm...just noticed that Ingo doesn't seem to be available in the U.S. yet, just Canada, perhaps because it was first published in the UK (?). There are clear British language references throughout the book, like "crisps" instead of "chips" and "Mum" instead of "Mom." Anyway, I look forward to the next book in the series!

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