SIA Showcase for Readers and Writers discussion

I guess the name (and the feet) may be familiar to some of you.

If not, I'm a writer and binge reader who could no more stop writing then I could stop breathing.

It's in the DNA.

Me and Dog are always available to comment, help, hug.

The feet that still look like hands covering a face to me! I need to shut up and write, but the words are sticky today, so I'm here bug you and Dog instead. ;)

Hello and welcome over to the new dark side Jane!

Hey Jane! I think I should probably know who Dog is, but I don't.

Hi Dog. Hi Jane. I've read a bit of that book. I like it!

Amanda. Dog is my dog. He's a hooligan.

Dwayne. Dog says hi. And thanks for liking my wee book.

Hi Jane, Dog, and Jane's Feet! :)

Hola Jane. I've always wanted to ask you this.. how on earth do you manage to publish so many goods so quickly? Do you have drafts lying around or are you superwoman?

Alexis. I've been writing for years. So I have bits and pieces and drafts and stories all over the place.

Now I don't have a paid job any more I can get around to them.

The feet we know and love! Hi Jane! And I know what you mean about writing. It's a joy to be a writer... even when I'm complaining about writer's block.

Jane wrote: "Amanda. Dog is my dog. He's a hooligan.

Dwayne. Dog says hi. And thanks for liking my wee book."

I kinda figured, but wanted to make sure. haha. Classic name! I likey:)

Christina wrote: "The feet that still look like hands covering a face to me!"

Me too! Even though I know full-well what they are haha!

*fist bumps Miss Jane*

Way to confuse ppl and add an air of mystery ^_~

Confesses that the feet aren't a clever ploy, the photograph just happened to be hanging around when I felt the need of an author pic. Bunged it in. Was going to change it. Shan't now because it has kind of become me.....

I had a Christmas story doing a brain worm in my head. So I wrote it...

It's now on my Goodreads author blog for anybody who would like to do me the inestimable favour of reading it.

Just for fun.

Happy merry and bright

Oh great! Let me go read.

Hi Jane!! Yes, get that brain worm out of your head! Hugging the stuffing out of ya!!

Oh! I like that story, Jane!

SueSam. Brain worm evicted. Place taken by another even shoutier one. I think this one is fat and hairy...

Christina. Muchos gracias....

Alex just wrote an interesting review. Gonna ponder his points...

I'm gonna shut up and write in a minute. But first I'm going to go read your story.

Jane, Write fast and evict him, too. Sounds like he might have some grizzly friends! Hugs!!

And I read the story. It was good! It made me want to post my own. So I did. I really liked the twist at the end of your story. Not gonna spoil, but it was COOL.

Jane wrote: "Alex just wrote an interesting review. Gonna ponder his points..."

Jane, I agree with Alex on the cover but that seems to be your particular style, no?

Man, that Christmas story.. what a horrifying ending, lol!

Alexis wrote: "Man, that Christmas story.. what a horrifying ending, lol!"

LOL! Horrifying? I thought it was a happy ending! XD

The curse of the verse. This is what happens when your heroine is having such a difficult time that you can only bear to write it little by little.

You get brain worms. Fat hairy brain worms. Limerick brain worms.

*sighs*

A poet was feeling so screwed
That he tore all his papers in two
The dread seventeen
Was turning him green
Coz he just couldn't write a haiku

I love the subtitle of this thread, Jane. I am going to look at it daily. Shut up and write. Yes!

Missy wrote: "I love the subtitle of this thread, Jane. I am going to look at it daily. Shut up and write. Yes!"

There is a group here called Shut up and read, so Jane is their counterpart. :)

Hi Jane. How come your book "Shall we gather at the river?" doesn't have a blurb on goodreads? :)

Alexis wrote: "Hi Jane. How come your book "Shall we gather at the river?" doesn't have a blurb on goodreads? :)"

Alexis. I don't know where that went. I've reinstated it now. Thanks for alerting me.

You're welcome!

I enjoyed the novel and will be writing a review soon.

Hey Jane, and Dog

Alexis wrote: "You're welcome!

I enjoyed the novel and will be writing a review soon."

Gracias amigo

Missy wrote: "I love the subtitle of this thread, Jane. I am going to look at it daily. Shut up and write. Yes!"

+1

*grins*

Just a quick happy, merry and bright to all my Goodreads amigos.

I'm on my third brandy and life is sooo smooth.

Very nice. I'm a little wine warmed myself. Happy holidays, Jane! ★

This little book of short stories and subversive verse is free on January 1 & 2.

I hope some of you will pick it up and enjoy it.

Life isn't always bitter, but it isn't always sweet and it has an uncanny knack of biting your backside when you least expect it. This little collection of stories and verse is the author's response to the banana skins we all have to negotiate and to the unexpected bonuses that balance the scales

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N7GDJ2L

A very strange thing happened today. Extremely modest downloads put the wee book at number one.....

Admittedly it's a wee category, but I've never been numero uno before.

I had to have a large drink

Congrats, Jane!

Oh and, if anyone over here in dot com land wants to grab Jane's book:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N7GDJ2L

(Check out booklinker, they give you a universal link that goes to all Amazon markets)

Congrats Jane!!

Aiya! Super duper fantazmic, Miss Jane!! Congrats!

Jane wrote: "A very strange thing happened today. Extremely modest downloads put the wee book at number one.....

Admittedly it's a wee category, but I've never been numero uno before.

I had to have a large drink"

So... many... jokes...
Must restrain... no.. lost the battle. It happened. I tried, but it happened...

I am never going to write a wee book, that isn't my fetish at all. But I am glad you had a big drink first, you need it for that.

:D

Yay!!! Congrats Jane!!!

Congrats Jane. That's pretty radtastic!

Just joined the Friday the Thirteenth promo.

I reckon it's a bonzer idea.

Shall we gather at the river? Will be free. All day......

Gratitude to our rockin' mods. (An allusion that will sail right over the heads of any young person reading this. Sadly.)

I'm lost! Where can I find the Friday the Thirteenth promo?

It's on this group

Scroll down to services and look for

Sharing the indie love - Who wants to do an impromptu promo

I'm definitely more rocker than mod. ;P

Me too Christina. I never rocked a parka, but I wore a mean leather jacket...

Jane wrote: "A very strange thing happened today. Extremely modest downloads put the wee book at number one.....

Admittedly it's a wee category, but I've never been numero uno before.

I had to have a large drink"

This is a couple days late, but congrats! That is awesome!

Just had to share this.

My 77-year-old sister is reading 'Who Put Her In?'

She called me up to say she really liked the story - but the language is appalling. I got a thorough bollocking. Baby sister in the wrong. AGAIN....

And then. ..

A review on Amazon calls Mr Smith the best short story the reviewer had ever read.

I'm thrilled and humbled.