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Nov.14.2009
Goodness me, what a stormy day it is here in southern England - I hope you're all surviving the experience and keeping dry. I was foolish enough to venture out this morning for a paper and some lunch, and everyone seemed very bad-tempered. Must be the wind. As it were. I came home all peculiar and...
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Nov.12.2009
The holiday was great - the weather was kind and I loved it. The only slight problem was that for some reason I was sick as a dog the first night so was up for most of it. Unfamiliar bathrooms are never pleasant when you're ill. Still, at least I got a lot of the puzzles in my Puzzler magazine done...
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Nov.06.2009
Champagne and GoldI'm really pleased to say that Pink Champagne and Apple Juice is now available with its brand-new cover at Lulu Books. It should fairly shortly be available at Amazon and other online book stores too, so I'll let you know when that happens.
In the meantime, I'm also very happy to...
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Nov.03.2009
I was delighted to see yesterday that A Dangerous Man is one of the Recommended Reads for November on the Jessewave Review site – thank you so much. That’s cheered me greatly! Mind you, I’m rather miffed that Amazon UK are still insisting that the book is temporarily out of stock even though my...
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Oct.31.2009
Well, it's finally happened and Gladys died yesterday. An event waiting to happen for a long, long time, in my opinion. More shocking to note, possibly, is that all I can feel about it is a mild relief and the thought that I won't have to schedule in my weekly twenty minute silent visit to her any...
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Oct.30.2009
Just a quick note to say that, much to my astonishment, The Bones of Summer is a Jury's Choice finalist in the Mystery/Thriller section of the new GLBT fiction Rainbow awards and you can see me on the list here.
Well, gosh, eh! That's certainly put a smile on this screwed-up, mood-swing obsessed...
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Oct.29.2009
I'm very happy to say that my GLBT erotic short story, A Stranger's Touch, has been accepted for publication by Amber Quill Press, and is lined up in their schedules for next January or February, at the moment of typing. I'm hugely pleased to be a new member of the Amber Quill team, as it's so nice...
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Oct.28.2009
Here's a sneak preview of the new Pink Champagne and Apple Juice cover:
I hope you like it. I certainly do. Hugethanks to artist Penelope Cline who created it, as she also created the covers for A Dangerous Man and Thorn in the Flesh. So a very talented woman indeed!
Anne Brooke
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Oct.22.2009
A couple of our local Surrey businessmen are strapping their leathers on (oo-err, missus ...) and biking in India in order to raise money for charity. You can find out more about the whole enterprise here, and you can also see what Flavia of Strictly Come Dancing has donated to the 12 November...
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Oct.15.2009
Just popping in to say that the first edition of new historical fiction journal, Lacuna, includes my story A Small Betrayal.
I do hope you enjoy the read.
On a personal note, I think I'm slowly getting back to something approaching normal (ho ho) after the horrors of early October, but I'm...
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Oct.06.2009
A quick blog tonight to say that I'm taking a short break from blogging. Well, it's been very busy, and the year so far has been sometimes great and sometimes very difficult, so I thought I deserved a rest!
Hope you all continue well, and will catch up with you later.
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Oct.05.2009
Up early again today as we were staffing the last Information Point for the morning as it’s the first day of term. Lots of confusion about timetables, where rooms were and also where people could get water. It’s a good question. To be honest, I didn’t feel that good, and was rather overwhelmed and...
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Oct.04.2009
Here's today's poem:
Meditation 232
There’s an awful lotof travelin the early church
so it’s obviousthat sainthoodwould never have suited me
at all.
Church today was okay - quite a good sermon about relationships really - but we had one of those horrid dirge-like hymns I can't stand for the third...
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Oct.03.2009
Up at the crack of dawn today (lucky dawn ...) as Lord H and I were on the trail of the glossy ibis. Five of which had been spotted during the week in Dungeness RSPB reserve. We didn't manage to spot any at first, though we were compensated somewhat by a marsh harrier, black-tailed godwits and...
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Oct.02.2009
Is it Friday already? Well golly gosh indeed. Here's today's poem:
Meditation 231
While one manbetrays his town
to a bloody death,another is lowered
from a city wallin a basket
and creeps awayinto night.
Perhaps it’s betterto be a woman after all.
Managed to play some pretty dire golf again today,...
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About Anne
Anne Brooke has been writing for eighteen years and is the author of seven novels, numerous short stories and poems. She was shortlisted for the Harry Bowling Novel Award in 2006, longlisted for the Betty Bolingbroke-Kent Novel Award in 2005, and shortlisted...
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Causes Anne Brooke Supports
MacMillan Nurses
Shelter
Anne’s Favorite Books
Taking Comfort by Roger Morris, Anything by Murakami but especially The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and South of the Border West of the Sun, Girl with a Pearl...