http://www.scribd.com/people/view/79251-josie-henley-einion This a feed for documents on Scribd written by josiehenley 30 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:03:25 GMT Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:03:25 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2638539/27-Mar-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Casting-Pods-Show-13-online-Meet-the-Author Casting Pods Show 13 online – Meet the Author Current mood: blah Category: Writing and Poetry The new show of Casting Pods is now available. This one focuses on my recent trip to London to do some video promotions for Silence. Here’s the blurb: I travel to London again and meet David Freedman who runs the Meet the Author website. One video interview with him, a change of clothes and another video interview this time in my publisher’s office. Also being interviewed is Nick Griffiths, author of In the Footsteps of Harrison Dextrose. He carves a face on a melon to use in place of his own head. G Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:03:25 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2638539/27-Mar-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Casting-Pods-Show-13-online-Meet-the-Author http://www.scribd.com/doc/2638531/18-April-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Oh-Hai-I-a-star-genius-I-interviewed-by-BBC Oh Hai, I a star genius, I interviewed by BBC Current mood: mischievous Category: Writing and Poetry The BBC radio interview of the Mensa group last night was great fun. I managed to turn the conversation around to my book so many times that they were taking the pee out of me. 'Oh, Josie, have you written a book?' 'What was that about your book, Josie?' 'Did someone say someone had written a book?' etc. But as I said, you've got to grab every opportunity you can and shake it till all the bits fall out. The programme is going to be 30 mins long and is part of a series about groups, Mensa being Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:03:16 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2638531/18-April-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Oh-Hai-I-a-star-genius-I-interviewed-by-BBC http://www.scribd.com/doc/2638527/17-Mar-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Promotional-video-for-Silence 17 Mar 2008 Promotional video for Silence Current mood: hyper Category: Writing and Poetry Last week I went to London to do some filming. One film I did was for Meet the Author and they’ll upload the film when they’ve got the book cover art. The other was in another studio, the other side of town. This is now uploaded at youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFpxuvKEis8 It’s a seven minute film during which I discuss the novel and give a reading. Feel free to send this on to your friends! While doing the filming I was also making a podcast, and this is the one I’ll upload next to Casting Pods Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:03:10 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2638527/17-Mar-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Promotional-video-for-Silence http://www.scribd.com/doc/2638525/08-Mar-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-My-Friend-Dwight My Friend Dwight Current mood: pleased Category: Writing and Poetry Right near the beginning of ABNA (October last year) when I submitted my Viking adventure novel Leif the Runtling, I went on the ABNA forum – I'm such a chatroom whore I know – and met a great guy called Dwight. Well we hit it off straight away, he's a gay man in Chicago and I'm a lesbian in Cardiff, so we have a lot in common. The main thing we chatted about was how to market yourself as an author, how to become a 'known name' when celebrities are the ones who are more likely to get published. I often do make these connection Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:03:09 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2638525/08-Mar-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-My-Friend-Dwight http://www.scribd.com/doc/2638522/01-Mar-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Finished-the-initial-edit- Finished the initial edit Current mood: working Category: Writing and Poetry On schedule. Wh-hoo! The initial edit was to read through the manuscript deleting unnecessary words, sentences and sometimes paragraphs. If a single word needed changing, to change it. If a whole section needed rewriting, to highlight it for rewriting later. So now I've done that to the whole book, tomorrow I'll start the rewriting. I've got four sections that need to be thoroughly rewritten. Hoping to get that done by midweek, then have time for another read through before handing over to Tom. I have a book on my she Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:03:05 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2638522/01-Mar-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Finished-the-initial-edit- http://www.scribd.com/doc/2182866/27-Feb-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Two-Weeks-Deadline Two Weeks Deadline Current mood: working Category: Writing and Poetry That's what I've given myself to finish this edit of Silence. Two weeks. It's achievable, I'm half-way through now and I've been doing it for two weeks. It's close enough to be the pressure I need to work but not so far away to be a mad panic (talk to me again in twelve days if you want mad panic). Plus on the 11th March I'm off to London again, so I thought that this would make a sensible goal. So I told Tom at Legend today that it would be done in two weeks. Then I had an email from Naomi at Velvet with the next issue pdf Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:26:46 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2182866/27-Feb-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Two-Weeks-Deadline http://www.scribd.com/doc/2182863/23-Feb-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-New-Episode-of-Casting-Pods-Meet-My-Publisher New Episode of Casting Pods Meet My Publisher Current mood: animated Category: Podcast I've broadcast the latest episode of my podcast. Here's the blurb: Show 11 – London: Meet My Publisher Writing, publishing, books, fiction, London, tube, library The momentous occasion of me learning that Legend want to publish my book 'Silence'. I travelled to London for a meeting with Tom, my publisher, then later in the evening I was on a panel of authors at an event in Kensal library. There was free wine which unfortunately meant I missed my bus home. I'm glad I've got this recorded, and hope you enjo Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:25:57 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2182863/23-Feb-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-New-Episode-of-Casting-Pods-Meet-My-Publisher http://www.scribd.com/doc/2182856/22-Feb-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-More-Exciting-Book-News More Exciting Book News Current mood: adored Category: Writing and Poetry Press Release for Silence (includes blurb) My ghast was flabbered when this press release (www.josiehenley.net/Writing/Pressrel_Silence_aquisition.pdf) turned up in my inbox yesterday. If you don't have Adobe Reader or you have a phobia about clicking on links, here's a summary: Josie is the best thing since sliced bread, Silence is the next Booker Prize winner, we just had to have her before she got picked up by the big boys. The first reaction is Tigger dancing around and bouncing off the ceiling, but then Eeyore bounc Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:23:42 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2182856/22-Feb-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-More-Exciting-Book-News http://www.scribd.com/doc/2182852/12-Feb-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Exciting-things-happening-at-Legend Exciting things happening at Legend Current mood: adventurous Category: Writing and Poetry The Legend Press website has been all a-flutter over the last few days. I've noticed some minor changes and additions, and the book cover for Eight Hours has now been added to the compendium. However, today is the biggest change – a new group blog for Legend Press authors. Whhoo, another magpie's nest for me to delve into. As if I haven't already got enough distractions from what I should be doing – i.e. editing my damn novel which is coming out in July *gasp* still can't get used to that. Well I ma Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:22:35 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2182852/12-Feb-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Exciting-things-happening-at-Legend http://www.scribd.com/doc/2182847/08-Feb-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Omigod-omigod-omigod-theyre-going-to-publish-my-novel Omigod omigod omigod they’re going to publish my novel! Current mood: ecstatic Category: Writing and Poetry Internal dialogue with my other self on the way home from London last night. Omigod omigod omigod they're going to publish my novel! It's 180,000 bloody words, you've got a lot of work to do. But omigod! Yes, but July is far too soon. It's brilliant it's fabulous, I'm going to be a published novelist omigod! Look out, you're on the wrong train. Omigod, what? Now you've missed the bloody bus you piss-head, how much did you have to drink anyway? I was celebrating! They're going to publis Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:20:43 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2182847/08-Feb-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Omigod-omigod-omigod-theyre-going-to-publish-my-novel http://www.scribd.com/doc/2024161/31-Jan-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Knock-Me-Down-With-A-Feather Knock Me Down With A Feather Current mood: overstimulated Category: Writing and Poetry I've neglected my blog for the last week. Why? Well this week has seen me on an emotional rollercoaster like none other and several times I wanted to blog about it all but it seems like too much. Not able to deal with the subtle emotions that most people experience., either I'm ecstatic or devastated and in the interim I'm wandering around numbly. What is this problem, I hear you shout, tell us! I'm overloaded, that's what. Double medication has sent me into turmoil so that every piece of good or bad news se Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:48:58 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2024161/31-Jan-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Knock-Me-Down-With-A-Feather http://www.scribd.com/doc/2024152/22-Jan-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-From-Seven-Days-to-Eight-Hours From Seven Days to Eight Hours Current mood: ecstatic Category: Writing and Poetry What with all that's been going on with Legend Press recently, I had wondered if they'd forgotten about the poor little shorts anthology, but lo! An email flew into my box yesterday from Emma the Intrepid saying that the story I submitted will be in Eight Hours – huzzah! It's been selected as the first one too! A few minor corrections have been made to my story (and presumably the other authors are receiving theirs for corrections as well) and the cover design is yet to be done, but it will be similar to the c Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:47:10 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2024152/22-Jan-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-From-Seven-Days-to-Eight-Hours http://www.scribd.com/doc/2024139/20-Jan-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Videoed-book-reviews Videoed book reviews Current mood: accomplished Category: Writing and Poetry I'm doing my ABNA reviews on video. So far I've done three, here's the first: The Prospect of My Arrival - Dwight Okita www.amazon.com/dp/B00126589O They'll be available on the Amazon book page within 48 hours according to Amazon, but meanwhile you can look at my YouTube at www.youtube.com/AmazonReviews as all three are there. I had this plan a while ago when I noticed that Amazon allow you to upload a video as a review. The idea is that you record yourself using a product, but I decided I'd do a home-made book review Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:43:08 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/2024139/20-Jan-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Videoed-book-reviews http://www.scribd.com/doc/1028654/16-Jan-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Moving-Swiftly-On Moving Swiftly On… Current mood: optimistic Category: Writing and Poetry Post from my Amazon.com blog today. 3:16 AM PST, January 16, 2008 I didn't make the first round of ABNA. I'll still be hanging around at the forum, and I've downloaded some extracts of people who did make the cut so I can read/review. My profile will continue to be updated as I have products available on Amazon, my Amazon Short due out any day. I was somewhat surprised when I got the email saying I hadn't been shortlisted (not arrogant, just honest). But then again, there were only two reviewers per book in this round a Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:14:01 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/1028654/16-Jan-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Moving-Swiftly-On http://www.scribd.com/doc/1014461/13-Jan-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-ABNA-Super-Tuesday-just-around-the-corner ABNA Super Tuesday just around the corner Current mood: indescribable Category: Writing and Poetry ABNA Customer Voting Begins in 1 Day, 11 Hours, 8 Minutes, 48 Seconds Yesterday I worked out the countdown to 0 on the ABNA front page to mean that at 6 am on Tuesday morning (15th Jan) the shortlisted books for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award would be available for downloading, reading, reviewing and voting. Now, it's 7.25 pm so that would make it about 6.30 am. Whatever. I'm not going to check at that time because it'll only drive me mad. Ah, madder than I already am, I mean. Going by my ex Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:04:00 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/1014461/13-Jan-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-ABNA-Super-Tuesday-just-around-the-corner http://www.scribd.com/doc/985224/10-Jan-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-ABNA-Super-Tuesday-Gibbering-Wrecks ABNA Super Tuesday - Gibbering Wrecks Current mood: quixotic Category: Writing and Poetry FOUR DAYS TO GO TILL ABNA LONGLIST ANNOUNCED. Can you tell I'm a bit stressed about that? As well as the fact that my son is ill this week and off school, when he should have gone back for a new term, I've got major manic moments going on at work, and there are a million other deadlines clamouring for my attention. My ADHD is severely suffering this week. It's a good thing that the Brain Trainer I got at Christmas only takes a minute for each task. On the ABNA Forum I have discovered that I have in fact g Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:13:55 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/985224/10-Jan-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-ABNA-Super-Tuesday-Gibbering-Wrecks http://www.scribd.com/doc/985219/09-Jan-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Reasons-for-not-writing Reasons for not writing: distractions, procrastinations and timewasters... Current mood: hungry Category: Writing and Poetry Can anyone add to my list of things you might do instead of writing your novel? Some of them are perfectly valid reasons and necessary as part of the writing process but we all know that a lot of them are just avoidance tactics. I could have categories and prizes for the one who comes up with the cleverest or most absurd (I'm talking metaphorical prizes here like a picture of a trophy for your profile). And in brackets the excuses we come up with for doing this and thus Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:11:52 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/985219/09-Jan-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Reasons-for-not-writing http://www.scribd.com/doc/985216/27-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-Amazon-Profile-Keeping-an-Eye-on-ABNA Keeping an Eye on ABNA 6:08 AM PST, December 27, 2007, updated at 6:28 AM PST, December 28, 2007 Search ‘abna entrant’ in Amazon.com and you’ll get a list of Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (ABNA) titles. I’m not there (yet) but they’ve only uploaded 100 or so out of the potential 1000 and there’s still 18 days left till the official date for the reviewing to begin. At the time of writing this, when you look at one of these books’ pages, the length of the book is shown as 13 words (or 15, or 17, depending on which book you’re looking at) so I assumed it was not possible right n Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:09:29 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/985216/27-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-Amazon-Profile-Keeping-an-Eye-on-ABNA http://www.scribd.com/doc/962618/04-Jan-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-New-Year-New-Book New Year, New Book Current mood: adventurous Category: Writing and Poetry That's right, folks, we're on a 'here we go again' trip. It's an adult book again this time and I'm aiming for approx 70k so don't expect huge long blog posts for a while (or maybe do expect huge long blog posts if I'm stuck). This weekend I'm off to meet my writing buddies again, and I'm taking with me the 17k children's book I wrote in November. We usually share our stuff so that's what I'll be sharing, but I'll no doubt end up talking about my new project too after a few drinks. I'm going on the train because my car i Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:29:38 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/962618/04-Jan-2008-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-New-Year-New-Book http://www.scribd.com/doc/962609/25-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Happy-Christmas-Everybody Happy Christmas Everybody! Current mood: adored Category: Blogging I had an amazing haul, not as much as my son, though. My most-used present so far is my 'Disgo' Video, with which I've been recording my Christmas experience. As soon as I work out how to use the software, I'll YouTube it and put it up here. Just chilling out now and I've got the laptop on so that I can try out my presents, a lot of which involve the computer! A cushioned tray for the laptop, a webcam, digital Dictaphone and the video recorder. For all she goes on about how much time I spend on my laptop, at least she buys me t Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:26:32 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/962609/25-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Happy-Christmas-Everybody http://www.scribd.com/doc/962602/22-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Winter-Solstice-Poem Winter Solstice Poem Current mood: groggy Category: Writing and Poetry Darkness engulfs me Trapped in endless night Will I ever be free? Will there ever be light? With muffled thoughts With misted sight I struggle through To fall or fight. Dark and cold The year is old. Am I too tired to begin again? I see your silhouette Against the farthest light You reach for me In the deepest night. Through you I can begin anew. With you, I can believe That the sun will shine again. We had a great Solstice celebration, making holly headgear, wassailing the apple trees, readings by candlelight (for which I Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:25:09 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/962602/22-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Winter-Solstice-Poem http://www.scribd.com/doc/962596/14-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-Amazon-Profile-Pimping-for-Amazon Pimping for Amazon 4:29 AM PST, December 14, 2007 I hope they appreciate this. I’ve been writing articles for various publications and websites about how amazing Amazon is and all the things I’m doing here. Both ABNA and Amazon Shorts expect authors to do their own publicity, which is actually a sneaky way for Amazon to attract customers without having to pay for the marketing. Who needs a marketing budget when your authors do it for free? Each of my articles is different as it takes a different angle. For some of them I concentrate on the Shorts programme as I’m writing for a readership Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:22:10 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/962596/14-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-Amazon-Profile-Pimping-for-Amazon http://www.scribd.com/doc/919194/18-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Crashed-Now-Burning Crashed, Now Burning Current mood: sick Category: Life It was inevitable really, given how much I've been pushing myself these last few weeks. I've had so much on: writing, promotional work, paid work, freelance work, house work (note how that one is at the bottom). Then all the stuff with the lead up to Christmas including duty parties, Mum's Taxi Service, buying bloody presents, traipsing around… okay, so I'm not the most Christmassy person on earth. But this is not helped by having had one infection after another for the last month or more. Colds, coughs, a sore throat and now back to a c Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:28:14 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/919194/18-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Crashed-Now-Burning http://www.scribd.com/doc/919189/13-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-The-List-is-Dead The List is Dead Current mood: drunk Category: Blogging Done two articles today and going to send them off tomorrow. How's that for speedy Gonzales! Had another article offer today as well, but no deadline for that one thank goodness. Now I'm relaxing before bed. Nice glass of red wine, wish I wasn't working tomorrow. Been watching Globetrotter in Scandinavia. There's a competition where you win your wife's weight in beer. Can I go there? If anyone doesn't know Alys, she's pretty damn solid. Now watching Scary Movie Four on Sky, it's hilarious. The List? What list? Gawd. I deep cleaned the bat Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:20:52 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/919189/13-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-The-List-is-Dead http://www.scribd.com/doc/919188/10-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Too-Busy-to-Decorate-the-Kitchen Too Busy to Decorate the Kitchen! Current mood: rushed Category: Life I'm still writing the three articles with looming deadlines. Why do I always put these things off? Is it because I actually produce better work when under pressure, or am I just bone idle? Hmm. Most women writers I've met online say that when they're avoiding writing, they do housework. Not me. Alys reckons I write to avoid housework. What do I do when avoiding writing? I write something else instead! Hence today my first article for NewsBiscuit: Miracle Return of Dodi and Diana. Vote for my article and it might make the fro Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:19:41 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/919188/10-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Too-Busy-to-Decorate-the-Kitchen http://www.scribd.com/doc/919186/07-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Why-Salt-Honey-should-win-World-Book-Day Why Salt & Honey should win World Book Day Current mood: impressed Category: Writing and Poetry Salt & Honey by Candi Miller (published by Legend Press) is in the 100-book longlist for World Book Day. Books are chosen from all over the world for this prestigious award. The shortlist of 10 will be announced at the start of February and then the winner itself will be announced on March 6th 2008 which is World Book Day. I read the book in the summer and it really moved me. It's an incredible story, and very well written. Then I heard that it was nominated for World Book Day so I went to the votin Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:17:38 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/919186/07-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Why-Salt-Honey-should-win-World-Book-Day http://www.scribd.com/doc/786805/05-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Book-is-Verified-Blog-is-Official Book is Verified, Blog is Official Current mood: accomplished Category: Writing and Poetry Posted on my Amazon Blog 3:09 AM PST, December 5, 2007 Hello bookbuyers! My blog has been available on my Amazon.com profile for a month now, but not available on the book page for Seven Days as I was waiting for the Amazon Gods to verify that I am one of the authors. Now I'm here at last. Andrew, Emma, Anca, Victoria, Lilian, Anwar – you can all do it too. Go to Amazon Connect and set yourself up a profile, select Seven Days for your bibliography and put Tom's details in as the verifier and we can mak Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:34:54 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/786805/05-Dec-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Book-is-Verified-Blog-is-Official http://www.scribd.com/doc/786680/30-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-My-Writing-Week My Writing Week Current mood: chipper Category: Writing and Poetry Sarah's Prize My friend Sarah Mussi WON The Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards 2007 Children's Book category. She's on the front page of their website. Sarah's book Door of No Return has been out in paperback in the UK since April, and her next book The Last of The Warrior Kings is due out next April. The hardcover edition of Door is coming out next August. Isn't that interesting how these days the hardcover comes out after the paperback? I'm so pleased for Sarah, it's the best writing news I've heard in a long time. It's going to Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:33:37 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/786680/30-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-My-Writing-Week http://www.scribd.com/doc/520335/23-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-My-First-Ever-Royalties-Cheque First Ever Royalties Cheque Current mood: excited Category: Writing and Poetry I received my first ever royalties cheque this week! Don't get me wrong – I've been paid for my writing plenty of times, but it's usually a set fee for an article, and once I had an advance but the book was never published so I never got royalties for it (though I didn't have to pay back the advance thank goodness!). So this is the first time I've had royalties. The remarkable Legend Press have managed to sell more copies than I expected of Seven Days, the anthology in which my story appears. I didn't expect the r Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:10:28 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/520335/23-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-My-First-Ever-Royalties-Cheque http://www.scribd.com/doc/520333/20-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-And-my-next-story-will-go-to And my next story will go to… Current mood: cold Category: Writing and Poetry …the BBC National Short Story Award 2008. I'm excited about this! I've known about this competition for a while, but couldn't enter as only published writers are eligible. Entrants have to provide a list of their publications, with ISBN, and they have to be print (not online) and traditionally published (not self-published). So I haven't been able to enter in previous years. But now (hurrah!) thanks to the fabulous Legend Press and their fabulous short story anthology Seven Days, in which my story was published e Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:09:07 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/520333/20-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-And-my-next-story-will-go-to http://www.scribd.com/doc/503843/18-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Amazon-Woman Amazon Woman Current mood: busy Category: Writing and Poetry I've always been quite into Amazon, not just for the name though that's pretty sexy! I like being able to order books online and I like the fact that just about any book you might want can be found on Amazon. So as a reader I'm definitely an Amazon Woman. Well now I've got even more reasons to call myself an Amazon Woman. Because I think Amazon is good for writers too. I've been filling in my Amazon Shorts Author Questionnaire this weekend. I will be sending the signed contract, the final proofread draft of the story and my author ph Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:27:45 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/503843/18-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Amazon-Woman http://www.scribd.com/doc/503842/15-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Amazon-Shorts-Welcome-Kit Amazon Shorts Welcome Kit Current mood: working Category: Writing and Poetry My Amazon Shorts Author Welcome Kit arrived today. My first story has been accepted onto the Amazon Shorts programme. So I'm very happy about that. But now I've got a contract to read and sign, author questionnaire, Amazon New Supplier questionnaire, Content Submission Worksheet and goodness knows what else to fill in! Hopefully this will mean that I can give them lots of material with which to market my short story. I'm already running through all of my potential contacts at various publications and websites who I kn Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:26:51 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/503842/15-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Amazon-Shorts-Welcome-Kit http://www.scribd.com/doc/503841/14-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Casting-Pods-Show-8-newly-uploaded Casting Pods Show 8 newly uploaded Current mood: sleepy Category: Blogging Just to prove that I actually do finish things that I start, I've uploaded the podcast which I've been diligently editing since finishing the novel last Friday. This show is all in Egypt, lots of shopping and swimming, as the title of the podcast indicates. Have a listen at www.castingpods.co.uk or at podomatic, or on the Casting Pods MySpace page. Now I'm editing my recordings from the Erotic Writing Workshop at Bournemouth Literary Festival that I went to a few weekends ago. That'll be for show 9. At karate tonight I Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:25:17 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/503841/14-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Casting-Pods-Show-8-newly-uploaded http://www.scribd.com/doc/482747/09-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-YipYipYip Yip-Yip-Yip! Current mood: accomplished Category: Writing and Poetry Manic episode over. I am now coming down from the high. Wow, what a week. I think 'lunchtime' is quite flexible, especially on a Friday. I wrote [END] at 1.45 this afternoon so I got there by my deadline. Of course if I'm going to be very strict about it, I took longer than a week because I started at about 10 am last Friday. I couldn't stay up as late as I'd wanted last night because my brain refused to work half-way through chapter 26 goddammit!! Anyway, a chapter and a half written over lunch today and I'm celebrating toni Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:42:57 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/482747/09-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-YipYipYip http://www.scribd.com/doc/482741/0708-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-On-the-Downhill-Roll 07 Nov 2007 On the Downhill Roll Current mood: energetic Category: Writing and Poetry I'm on chapter 15 of my new novel. I've planned 25 chapters, so I'm just over halfway through. I love it when it's at this stage. Seems to go much faster. I started last Friday lunchtime and I've given myself till this Friday lunchtime to get it finished. Do you think I'll make it? 08 Nov 2007 Chapter 24 – so close! Current mood: working Category: Writing and Poetry Yes indeed I'm still writing it. I'm on Chapter 24 now of a 27 chapter children's novel (two chapters added since my last post, somewhere aroun Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:38:31 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/482741/0708-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-On-the-Downhill-Roll http://www.scribd.com/doc/465486/05-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Ive-Started-So-Ill-Finish I’ve Started So I’ll Finish Current mood: busy Category: Writing and Poetry The biggest problem I find with having ADHD is not being able to finish things. I know that I can finish things and I have finished plenty of things, but most of the time I've got so many things on the go at once that some of them slip by unnoticed. If I've got a deadline then I'll finish it. If I'm being paid for it then I'll meet the deadline. That's got to be good. But that means I can't finish the stuff that I start myself. I need some other motivator. That's why I enter so many competitions. Last week I had an Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:34:31 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/465486/05-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Ive-Started-So-Ill-Finish http://www.scribd.com/doc/460573/03-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-The-Courage-To-Write The Courage To Write Current mood: contemplative Category: Writing and Poetry Okay, I am wittering on about Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards again now, but this has brought up a lot of issues for me. I am fascinated by this sort of competition, where the public are involved in the judging process. It's springing up all over the place and I think that it's part of a wider phenomenon of interactive media, audience participation and such (e.g. X-Factor). To keep people interested, you've got to engage them, it's not good enough any more to expect an audience to sit back passively and take what yo Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:47:17 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/460573/03-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-The-Courage-To-Write http://www.scribd.com/doc/454744/01-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Happy-at-Amazon-com Blog Happy at Amazon.com Current mood: busy Category: Blogging I've just started up a blog at Amazon.com. Anyone who is an Amazon customer can have a profile page. To open a blog you go to Amazon Connect and the blog will appear on your profile page. To see your profile page, you must have made a comment on an Amazon.com forum or written a customer review. Then when you view your comment or review, your name will be a link. Or in Amazon.co.uk there is a 'view my profile' link on the 'Your Account' page, scroll down to the 'Your Amazon.co.uk Area'. Click on this link and you'll get your profile Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:11:55 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/454744/01-Nov-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Happy-at-Amazon-com http://www.scribd.com/doc/449556/30-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-A-Witch-Is-For-Life-Not-Just-For-Halloween A Witch Is For Life Not Just For Halloween Current mood: cheerful Category: Religion and Philosophy I'm a tad busy today so will make this short and sweet. So would you if it was your main religious festival tomorrow (and if it is, I expect you are). I'm not going to rant on about trick or treaters – I've done enough of that on my FaceBook group of the same name as the title of this blog. But I will say that I am a witch all year round and don't need the pointy hat or pentagram ring to prove it. I have the day off work and am planning to make pumpkin stuff and hide gory body-part sweets arou Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:04:28 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/449556/30-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-A-Witch-Is-For-Life-Not-Just-For-Halloween http://www.scribd.com/doc/442727/29-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Recovering-from-the-Writing-Workshop-or-actually-the-red-wine Recovering from the Writing Workshop (or actually, the red wine…) Current mood: exhausted Category: Travel and Places I've been in Bournemouth for the weekend. The Erotic Writing Workshop was on Saturday and the party on Saturday evening (where I got my prize for the writing competition). Because I live in Cardiff and it's a 3½ hour journey (if the trains are running efficiently) and because the workshop was a birthday present from Alys, I decided to make a weekend of it and travelled down Friday evening. I stayed for two nights in a B&B near to the university, which is where the workshop w Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:37:26 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/442727/29-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Recovering-from-the-Writing-Workshop-or-actually-the-red-wine http://www.scribd.com/doc/427674/25-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Im-at-Bournemouth-LitFest- I’m at Bournemouth LitFest Current mood: bouncy Category: Writing and Poetry In case anyone is wondering if I've dropped off the face of the earth (I know I come and go anyway but you might miss me!) I'm going to Bournemouth for the weekend. So I may not be online as much as I usually am. That's not to say I'm assuming that Bournemouth is an un-networked island in the middle of nowhere, but I'm not taking my laptop and I don't know whether there'll be internet access at my B&B or even whether I'll have time to spare. I will give a full report of Bournemouth Literary Festival when I get back, Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:36:49 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/427674/25-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Im-at-Bournemouth-LitFest- http://www.scribd.com/doc/415414/23-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Erotic-Writing-Workshop-and-Reading-for-Party Erotic Writing Workshop and Reading for Party Current mood: accomplished Category: Writing and Poetry Regular blog readers will remember that I'm off on a weekend jolly to Bournemouth this Friday through to Sunday, for the Bournemouth Literature Festival. Alys bought me a ticket to the Erotic Writing Workshop and evening party for my birthday, plus I've won third prize in the associated competition. It's all very exciting. I've now been asked to do a reading during the evening which has got me in a tizz. I'm not usually too stressed about reading out my work to an audience. I've done that a fe Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:08:26 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/415414/23-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Erotic-Writing-Workshop-and-Reading-for-Party http://www.scribd.com/doc/413656/21-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-I-am-not-a-OneGenreWonder I Am Not A One-Genre-Wonder Current mood: creative Category: Writing and Poetry If you've read some of my fiction, or read some of my earlier posts where I talk about my writing, you may realise that I write in a variety of genres and some of my books and stories don't have a genre that I can pin down precisely. This is not because I can't decide what genre I want to write in, but because I don't see why I have to pick a genre and stick with it. I am very happy to write under a variety of pseudonyms if this would appease the readers who pick a book based on the author's name and brand image. I Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:19:01 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/413656/21-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-I-am-not-a-OneGenreWonder http://www.scribd.com/doc/407641/17-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Third-Prize-for-Short-Story-and-Reducing-Morning-Internet-Use Third Prize for Short Story and Reducing Morning Internet Use Current mood: rushed Category: Blogging Anyone who regularly reads my blog will be fed up by now of me banging on about the Erotic-Writing-Workshop-at-Bournemouth-Literary-Festival I'm going to soon. But I just have to mention it one more time before I go to say that I won third prize for my short story that I entered into the associated competition. I've won a signed copy of Mitzi Szereto's book and there's going to be a prize-giving ceremony on the evening of the 27th October. There's a possibility of my story being published on t Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:20:45 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/407641/17-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Third-Prize-for-Short-Story-and-Reducing-Morning-Internet-Use http://www.scribd.com/doc/407640/Facebook-Group-A-Witch-is-for-Life-not-just-for-Halloween A Witch is for Life not just for Halloween Common Interest - Beliefs & Causes As a pagan, I get hacked off when at this time of year there’s a load of crappy commercial pumpkin bollocks hanging around the supermarkets. Plastic witches and cackling skeletons etc. et-bloody-c. Don’t you? I’m trying to have my spiritual experiences and keep getting disturbed by snotty kids with masks on going ‘trick or treat’ and I’m like, I’ll trick you, you little gits. Quite apart from the fact that I disagree with encouraging children to go knocking on strangers’ doors and begging for sweets Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:20:43 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/407640/Facebook-Group-A-Witch-is-for-Life-not-just-for-Halloween http://www.scribd.com/doc/407639/Facebook-Group-16000-Hyphens-Need-A-New-Home- --- 16000 Hyphens Need A New Home --Just for Fun - Totally Random “The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary has done away with about 16,000 hyphens in its latest edition.” http://www.bordersstores.co.uk/news/books/280/new-oxford-english-dictionary-omits16,000-hyphens/ --------Apparently the Powers That Be in the English Language think that the humble hyphen is outdated, confusing and would drive people mad if they tried to get it right. Words like leap-frog and ice-cream are going to lose their hyphens and become either one word e.g. leapfrog or two separate words e.g. ice cream. --------Apa Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:20:42 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/407639/Facebook-Group-16000-Hyphens-Need-A-New-Home- http://www.scribd.com/doc/407638/19-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Amazon-Breakthrough-Synopsis-or-Blurb Amazon Breakthrough – Synopsis or Blurb? Current mood: aggravated Category: Writing and Poetry After submitting my novel Leif the Runtling to Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards, I began to browse around on the ABNA message board. One thing I noticed were discussions about the 'synopsis' that the entrants have to provide. I had my 1000 word synopsis which I'd posted at YouWriteOn.com when I entered Leif there, and thought that would be adequate. Unfortunately I'd misread the rules and found that they were asking for a 1000 character synopsis, quite a lot shorter! Doing my usual thing of being i Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:20:41 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/407638/19-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Amazon-Breakthrough-Synopsis-or-Blurb http://www.scribd.com/doc/399254/15-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-two-novels-in-a-week Two Novels in a Week Current mood: accomplished Category: Writing and Poetry No, I haven't written two novels in a week, even for me that would be far too much output! And this blog post isn't about reading two novels in a week, either, because that would be a slow week for me and nothing to report, lol. What I'm referring to here is the fact that I submitted two novels last week. Considering I only have four completed novels and one of those is out of circulation and another is hidden in my bottom drawer as an embarrassment, I thought this was worth contemplating. The novel that is out of cir Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:57:56 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/399254/15-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-two-novels-in-a-week http://www.scribd.com/doc/394710/12-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Who-Are-My-Audience-yes-you-who-are-you Who Are My Audience? (yes, you, who are you?) Current mood: drunk Category: Blogging Hello ppl. *waves* I have something amazing to report. This past week I've had an average of 100+ blog views per day. To me that's amazing. Some blogs, maybe Daniela Sea (*swoon*), probably gets thousands of blog views, but up to last week I was getting a modest 20 or so per day as a not-even-z-list-sleb. My podcast Casting Pods was getting four or five feed views per day and I was quite happy with that. Now it's shot up to twenty and doesn't look like it's going down again (which reminds me I have to finish e Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:37:33 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/394710/12-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Who-Are-My-Audience-yes-you-who-are-you http://www.scribd.com/doc/393855/10-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Happy-Birthday-To-Me Happy Birthday To Me! Current mood: happy Category: Life Yes ppl, it's that time of year again for me. I'm another year older and find myself in the middle of a series of postal strikes *yawn*. I don't tend to get that many cards delivered on my birthday anyway but it would be nice to be able to think that it might happen. Ecards are perfectly acceptable, but not necessary, thanks. So here I am, thirty-seven, and don't look a day older than thirty-six and a half. As I've said in previous posts, I get very philosophical around my birthday, wondering whether I can hack another year before I go c Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:45:26 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/393855/10-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Happy-Birthday-To-Me http://www.scribd.com/doc/378016/07-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Two-Pounds-for-a-Newspaper Two Pounds for a Newspaper! Current mood: bitchy Category: News and Politics Today I bought a Sunday Times (big woo I hear you say). Well, it's been several years since I went out and bought a newspaper. Apart from the fact that I get all the news I need to know and more from the TV and the Internet, mostly using the BBC site and channels, which is free if you've already paid for your online connection and TV hookup, there's the environmental concern of all those trees. If I had a newspaper delivered the dog would eat it like she eats the post and I really can't be bothered to go to the shop f Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:05:59 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/378016/07-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Two-Pounds-for-a-Newspaper http://www.scribd.com/doc/349481/01-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Will-I-Die-Young Will I Die Young? Current mood: contemplative Category: Life As a child, as most children, I had no concept of mortality. When I was eleven I read widely in history, new age and paranormal subjects, including a book about Nostradamus. From this I deduced, naively perhaps, that I would die in July 1999, at which point I would be 28 years old. I therefore planned my life accordingly, deciding never to have children as it would be cruel to bring them into the condemned world, and to fit as much experience as I could into the finite time I had left. At the age of fourteen I had become enormously s Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:05:25 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/349481/01-Oct-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Will-I-Die-Young http://www.scribd.com/doc/270203/04-Sept-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Just-Keep-Swimming Just Keep Swimming… Current mood: contemplative Category: Life For those without young children or child-like tastes, 'just keep swimming' is a catchphrase from the film Finding Nemo. The fish Dory (given voice by one of my favourite people, Ellen Degeneres) has a very short memory span and she gets by with this simple motto: just keep swimming. The idea is that if you keep on going then you can deal with anything, whereas if you stop then you're lost. So this is my motto at the moment. Since I found out on Wednesday afternoon that my Dad had died the previous night, I've been taking every m Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:59:51 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/270203/04-Sept-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Just-Keep-Swimming http://www.scribd.com/doc/267087/31-Aug-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-My-Dad-died-in-the-night My Dad died in the night Current mood: sad Category: Life Face my father in his coffin Take the chance of one last look. As a writer what you're thinking, Here's the beginning of another book. A very shocking and horrible thing happened yesterday. I had a phonecall from my uncle to say my Dad died - very sudden of a heart attack in the night. He hasn't been ill and we didn't get any warning. My uncle spoke to him on the phone at 9.30 on Tuesday evening - he was helping him to write the speech for my cousin's wedding this weekend. And he said that my Dad was very happy and cheerful. But apparen Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:09:45 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/267087/31-Aug-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-My-Dad-died-in-the-night http://www.scribd.com/doc/264071/Bestsellers-In-Supermarkets-Part-2-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion Bestsellers In Supermarkets Part 2 – script for YourKindaTV Show Written by Josie Henley-Einion, Performed by Layla, Screened 21/06/07 Supermarkets sell everything, why not books? The idea of going to a supermarket to do your shopping is that it’s a one-stop-shop and you don’t need to drag yourself around numerous specialist shops to find what you want. You may as well argue against having music, electronic goods and clothes sold in supermarkets. The majority of people in the UK, sadly, don’t visit a bookshop regularly. The supermarket shelves are designed to appeal to the non-book-buy Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:51:56 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/264071/Bestsellers-In-Supermarkets-Part-2-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion http://www.scribd.com/doc/262743/Bestsellers-In-Supermarkets-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion Bestsellers In Supermarkets – script for YourKindaTV Show Written by Josie Henley-Einion, Performed by Layla, Screened 12/06/07 If I want to buy a book then I go to a book shop. Book shops are there to sell books: that’s why they’re called ‘book shops’. I don’t expect to see a row of books next to my fruit and veg. When I’m out buying books I like to browse the shop. I like to sit and flick through, read the blurb on the back, find exciting new authors and discover something I wouldn’t necessarily have considered. I don’t want to sling a paperback into my trolley between the Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:47:43 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/262743/Bestsellers-In-Supermarkets-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion http://www.scribd.com/doc/262261/American-Schmaltz-Moments-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion American Schmaltz Moments – script for YourKindaTV Show Written by Josie Henley-Einion, Performed by Layla, Screened 08/06/07-11/06/07 To the uninitiated, the Schmaltz Moment in a film or TV series, is when things have been going bad but everyone pulls together and makes the best of it. It is sentimentalism for the sake of it, soft focus camerawork, perhaps some background music. Everyone loves everyone and even the baddies get a cuddle. Sentimentalism was always prevalent in American pap TV and films. But now it seems that even the gritty, edgy new dramas like ‘Lost’ have the ASM. You k Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:30:00 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/262261/American-Schmaltz-Moments-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion http://www.scribd.com/doc/262255/Flashing-Josie-HenleyEinion Flashing Flick through the choice channel. Divide your time. Manageable chunks to chew. Fiction has a new frame. Flashing is the game. Who knew? Still the sonnet, lift the lament, engage. Distilled double-meanings; condensed feelings; every wordcounts. Bitesized potion; poetry in motion; measure by the ounce. Insightful, frightful, delightful. Taste sensation, explosive creation. Rich textured, soft-centred, calorie-counted bliss. Snack on this. * Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:17:09 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/262255/Flashing-Josie-HenleyEinion http://www.scribd.com/doc/247624/Giz-a-Job-Josie-HenleyEinion Giz a Job! I am currently looking for work, but I’m quite choosy. I work freelance as a writer and website designer, but I also have a full-time job as Research and Development Officer in an NHS Trust. In this position I am a programmer and perform administrative and operational tasks. It is reasonably paid and I am happy in the post, but I am looking for something more. I either want something that is part-time but the same pay (so I can expand my freelance work), or full-time with more money and excitement! I am also interested in a possible PhD Studentship, but would need to be sponsored Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:17:26 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/247624/Giz-a-Job-Josie-HenleyEinion http://www.scribd.com/doc/247494/Adverts-for-Unhealthy-Food-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion Adverts for Unhealthy Food – script for YourKindaTV Show Written by Josie Henley-Einion, Performed by Layla, Screened 03/07/07 TV Adverts for unhealthy food have supposedly been banned. How is it, then, that a certain big name fast food restaurant who championed the fatty meal for kids is still advertising? They get around the law by advertising their healthy options menu! So the ads have images of kids eating chicken nuggets, carrot sticks and fruit, drinking milk and taking part in healthy exercise. Yet when I get dragged into one of these restaurants by my insistent son, every child there Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:42:50 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/247494/Adverts-for-Unhealthy-Food-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion http://www.scribd.com/doc/247188/Like-The-World-Needs-More-Carparks-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion Like The World Needs More Carparks – script for YourKindaTV Show Written by Josie Henley-Einion, Performed by Layla, Screened 13/06/07 The beautiful grassy quadrangle with blossoming tree outside my office has become a scene of green carnage. The tree unceremoniously chain sawed down (I wonder if they’re going to put it in the Tree Museum a la Joni Mitchell), the turf ploughed up and the earth levelled. A team of workmen, who would be very out of place in a Diet Coke advert I’m sorry to say, have been hoiking up their trousers by my window all week. I have mixed feelings about this. Ever Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:30:08 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/247188/Like-The-World-Needs-More-Carparks-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion http://www.scribd.com/doc/244627/A-Bowl-of-Cookies-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion A Bowl of Cookies – script for YourKindaTV Show Written by Josie Henley-Einion, Performed by Layla, Screened 29/06/07 Have a bowl of cookies for breakfast, son. Here, let me sprinkle some extra sugar on them for you. Have some sugar to drink, no that’s fine, because it’s made with milk, isn’t it? Well, it looks like milk anyway, maybe it’s white water that saw a cow some time in the last ten years. This is part of your healthy breakfast, because it’s got no fat so it must be healthy, mustn’t it? And the cookies have got added vitamins and minerals to make up for all those you don Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:20:34 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/244627/A-Bowl-of-Cookies-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion http://www.scribd.com/doc/243604/My-Least-Favourite-Question-Are-You-A-Lesbian-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion My Least Favourite Question (Are You A Lesbian?) – script for YourKindaTV Show Written by Josie Henley-Einion, Performed by Layla, Screened 26/06/07 Do I go around asking men, ‘are you heterosexual?’ Do I? No. Even if I wanted to shag one then I wouldn’t come straight out like that and ask. Yet all my life (or at least since I was eleven), complete strangers have asked me ‘are you a lesbian?’ Why do they want to know? The only reason anyone should ask this of me is if she was also a lesbian and was interested in some private time with me. So when a man I’ve never met before eager Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:22:10 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/243604/My-Least-Favourite-Question-Are-You-A-Lesbian-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion http://www.scribd.com/doc/243541/Come-Out-Josie-HenleyEinion Come Out by Josie Henley-Einion Don’t be shy. I know you’re inside because I see your shadow. I’m waiting here, just outside. Come on, come with me. I see you hiding behind the curtain. You don’t fool anyone. I know you want to come, yet you resist. Why not just dip your toe in? Try it, for the tingle. Come and play, it’s a lovely day. Frost bites my tongue; grass shoots worms on the run from the blackbird pecking; sea salts the air. The birds are high; the sun is singing; everything sparkles in Technicolor. I dance to stay warm. Yet you’re shivering indoors avoiding me. Why? Make Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:12:09 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/243541/Come-Out-Josie-HenleyEinion http://www.scribd.com/doc/242912/Stupid-Americans-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion Stupid Americans – script for YourKindaTV Show Written by Josie Henley-Einion, Performed by Layla, Screened 06/07/07 (weekend) Since a chimpanzee in a suit got inaugurated as pres of the good ole US of A, I have had a very low opinion of Americans. Any country who could vote unanimously for an illiterate bombastic imbecile who is unable to express himself ‘irregardless’ of a Harvard education, must be equally unintelligent. What would it take, I wondered, to vote for the candidate who wasn’t going to lead the country into a doomed war, create a laughing stock of what could be a great n Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:19:29 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/242912/Stupid-Americans-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion http://www.scribd.com/doc/242421/Binge-Drinking-Linked-to-STDs-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion Binge Drinking Linked to STDs – script for YourKindaTV Show Written by Josie Henley-Einion, Performed by Layla, Screened 04/07/07 Latest reports indicate that heavy drinking among young teens leads to increased levels of promiscuity and increased incidence of sexually transmitted diseases. Duh? Does it really take a group of highly educated scientists to ‘discover’ this fact? What happened to good old common sense? How have we as a society arrived at the position that we will not believe something unless a thorough investigation has been made and a commissioned report filed? Doesn’t an Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:08:01 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/242421/Binge-Drinking-Linked-to-STDs-YKTV-Scripts-by-Josie-HenleyEinion http://www.scribd.com/doc/242412/13-Aug-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Twittering 13 Aug 2007 Blog Posts from my MySpace Blog Twittering Current mood: amused Category: Blogging I've been reading about micro-blogging, one of those wikipedia moments that starts with something entirely different. I was looking at Ruby on Rails because I was interested in the software, after doing a lot of work on ScribD. Then saw that a site called Twitter uses RoR and this made me wonder what on earth Twitter was. Well, it turns out that Twittering is micro-blogging, which is writing a concise blog – in 140 characters or less to be precise. Given my interest in micro-fiction, otherwise know Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:23:44 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/242412/13-Aug-2007-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Twittering http://www.scribd.com/doc/241432/Who-Was-Sappho-Article-by-Josie-HenleyEinion Who Was Sappho? Article by Josie Henley-Einion Where did the name ‘lesbian’ come from? Why do people sometimes call lesbians ‘Sapphist’ or refer to Sappho when talking about lesbianism? The basic information about Sappho that most people know, if anything, is that she was a Greek poet who lived on the island of Lesvos (or Lesbos) in around 600BCE, that’s 2,600 years ago. Are you into older women? You might have fancied Sappho if you’d been around then, I know that I would have. She is described as ‘small and dark’ by a Third Century philosopher. Although no contemporary descrip Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:27:55 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/241432/Who-Was-Sappho-Article-by-Josie-HenleyEinion http://www.scribd.com/doc/240693/Into-the-swim-Flash-Fiction-Josie-Henley Into The Swim by Josie Henley-Einion I lower myself into the water gratefully, my shoulders aching after a hard day at the keyboard. A shiver briefly runs through my body as I get accustomed to the temperature. I float for a moment, savouring the anticipation. At last, I fit my hands together as if in prayer and dive forwards into the swim. I still can’t get used to not pushing off from the edge, but they say this will come. I don’t know whether I want to get used to it. My face in the cool pool water; my arms reaching ever forwards, Blue surrounds me, drumming on my ears, and nothing in m Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:38:51 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/240693/Into-the-swim-Flash-Fiction-Josie-Henley http://www.scribd.com/doc/240090/BCCing-Pass-It-Forward-by-JosieHenley To: Josie From: Josie Subject: BCC-ing Pass It Forward Chaps, I’m going to talk to you about how you email. You may already know this, but I suspect that a greater proportion of the e-population don’t, if their behaviour is anything to go by. In this era of email harvesting and viruses, spyware and adware, there follows some very important information. Most email users will have noticed the ‘CC’ and ‘BCC’ boxes as well as the ‘To’ and ‘From’ ones. The phrase CC means ‘Carbon Copy’ and stems from a time of memos being circulated in an office environment. The person/peopl Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:30:31 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/240090/BCCing-Pass-It-Forward-by-JosieHenley http://www.scribd.com/doc/238793/Ocean-Maiden-and-Apple-King-short-story-by-Josie-Henley Ocean Maiden and Apple King By Josie Henley-Einion This story was originally posted at www.writersbeat.com and was included in the Writers Club magazine, April&May 2007 Issue 12. I was born at sea; I spent the first 100 years of my childhood in the ocean; if it were my choice I would die at sea. The land is not right. It is heavy, hard and static. The water is uplifting, yielding and fluid. The first time I came to land, I could not force my legs to work properly. They felt like great lumps of meat with big clunky feet, knobbly knees and horny toes, it was all wrong, wrong! Not like the smooth Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:18:53 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238793/Ocean-Maiden-and-Apple-King-short-story-by-Josie-Henley http://www.scribd.com/doc/238750/Show-3-Extract-from-my-Podcast-JosieHenley-Interview-with-Sarah-Mussi-Author-The-Door-of-No-Return Extract from my Podcast JosieHenley Show #3 – Interview with Sarah Mussi Author – The Door of No Return This instalment focuses on an interview with Sarah Mussi, author of the teen adventure novel Door of No Return, published by Hodder. Sarah’s second novel Last of the Warrior Kings, is due to be published in 2008, also by Hodder. Sarah is a good friend of mine and we have been writing buddies since we met when we were both shortlisted for the BBC Talent Children’s Fiction prize in 2001. I fondly remember meeting Sarah and the other finalists in the BBC studios in London. We ate lunch Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:59:41 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238750/Show-3-Extract-from-my-Podcast-JosieHenley-Interview-with-Sarah-Mussi-Author-The-Door-of-No-Return http://www.scribd.com/doc/238749/Show-2-Extract-from-my-Podcast-JosieHenley-Bombs-Books-Bad-Weather-and-Random-Radio Extract from my Podcast JosieHenley Show #2 – Bombs, Books, Bad Weather and Random Radio I was driving Alys’s Ford Ka rather than my old ratty Skoda. Last time I drove the Skoda up to the midlands, we ended up being towed home, which produced much hilarity from Steve, my Mum’s boyfriend. I did try to explain to him that my transfer of a Chinese dragon and the Chinese writing that means ‘power’ on the bonnet is actually supposed to be ironic, and that I’m taking the pee out of myself in hanging an air freshener in the shape of a pair of pink boxing gloves from the rear-view mirror. Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:57:00 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238749/Show-2-Extract-from-my-Podcast-JosieHenley-Bombs-Books-Bad-Weather-and-Random-Radio http://www.scribd.com/doc/238748/Show-1-Extract-from-my-Podcast-JosieHenley-Bad-Jokes-Barking-Dogs-And-Undercooked-Fish-Fingers Extract from my Podcast JosieHenley Show #1 – Bad Jokes, Barking Dogs And Undercooked Fish Fingers I always fancied being a stand up comedian. You know, as a kid people laughed at me a lot and they still do, even when I’m not trying to be funny. It’s just the way I am. I’m a funny person, when I’m angry I get funny about the things I’m angry about. And there’s a lot to get angry about in the world today. So this is the ideal sort of person, you would think, to do stand up comedy. But now I’m starting to think I’ve missed the boat. I’m tired of standing up. I’ve been stand Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:53:56 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238748/Show-1-Extract-from-my-Podcast-JosieHenley-Bad-Jokes-Barking-Dogs-And-Undercooked-Fish-Fingers http://www.scribd.com/doc/238744/09-Aug-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Am-I-Good-Enough Random Blog Posts from my MySpace Blog 09 Aug 2007 Am I Good Enough? Current mood: indescribable Category: Writing and Poetry You might not think it, given that I probably come across as quite arrogant, but I'm having a crisis of self-esteem. The story I wrote for Legend's Short Story anthology 2007 has been highly praised and now it's time to write one for the 2008 anthology, deadline October 1st. I've got several ideas and may submit several stories – if I can write them! Because this is the problem. Every time I sit down to write, I get waves of panic that it's not going to be good enough Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:42:02 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238744/09-Aug-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Am-I-Good-Enough http://www.scribd.com/doc/238743/24-Jul-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-From-Gay-Paris Random Blog Posts from my MySpace Blog 24 Jul 2007 From Gay Paris Current mood: working Category: manic Travel and Places I am in Paris! I have exactly one hour (at 4.50 Euros) to manically run all over the internet, Facebook, Myspace, emails, YouWriteOn etc. etc. and check the world hasn't fallen apart before I'm thrown off it again. back home on Friday, awk. Floods all over the UK while I'm here, been phoning home to check my family are okay. They're filling the bath with clean water so they have some for when the water supply is cut off (don't understand this, but that's British logic for y Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:41:22 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238743/24-Jul-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-From-Gay-Paris http://www.scribd.com/doc/238742/18-Jul-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Going-to-Paris-soon-Not-ready Random Blog Posts from my MySpace Blog 18 Jul 2007 Going to Paris soon! Not ready!!!! Current mood: hyper Category: Podcast Trying to finish writing a couple of articles for Velvet for the deadline tomorrow. Also murder mystery characters. Got packing to do. Taking the dog to the kennels tomorrow. Getting up at some godawful hour on Friday morning to meet the coach at the school. Got to get me and the boy there, make sure both cats are locked out of the house (not as easy as it sounds, I've driven home from holiday before now to let a cat out, they always try to sneak back in when the door's l Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:40:56 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238742/18-Jul-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Going-to-Paris-soon-Not-ready http://www.scribd.com/doc/238741/15-Jun-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Big-Things-Happening-and-Thoughts-on-Identity Random Blog Posts from my MySpace Blog 15 Jun 2007 Big Things Happening and Thoughts on Identity Current mood: accomplished Category: Writing and Poetry I've spent the last week updating my website, specifically updating my writing pages. I realised that although it's only been a couple of months since I last updated, so much has been going on in my writing life that the website was hopelessly out of date. There was no mention of YourKindaTV for instance, nor my latest animations. As I'm planning another PhD application, I need to be able to showcase as much of my work as I can, so that I can Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:40:27 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238741/15-Jun-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Big-Things-Happening-and-Thoughts-on-Identity http://www.scribd.com/doc/238740/30-May-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-And-Tango-makes-a-mockery-of-bigoted-propaganda Random Blog Posts from my MySpace Blog 30 May 2007 And Tango makes a mockery of bigoted propaganda Current mood: working Category: Pets and Animals Throughout the animal kingdom homosexual behaviour exists. The argument that same-sex attraction and relationships are 'unnatural' falters in the face of plentiful evidence. A children's book And Tango Makes Three has been slated as pro-gay propaganda. Parents who want their children to grow up ignorant of the real world complain that the book is bringing sex into the classroom. Why? There is no mention of sex in the book. Children's books about ga Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:38:38 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238740/30-May-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-And-Tango-makes-a-mockery-of-bigoted-propaganda http://www.scribd.com/doc/238739/26-May-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Seeing-My-Book-On-Someone-Elses-Shelf Random Blog Posts from my MySpace Blog 26 May 2007 Seeing My Book On Someone Else’s Shelf Current mood: thoughtful Category: Writing and Poetry Last night I went for dinner at a friend's house. We were having a birthday celebration meal which was lovely. I sat at the edge of the table and at some point during a lull in the conversation (lots of slurping noises instead), I glanced at the bookshelf on my right. I have a habit of eyeing up people's books, not because I'm thinking of borrowing them, but just because I love to browse books. If I see something I've read then we can compare notes, Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:38:06 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238739/26-May-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Seeing-My-Book-On-Someone-Elses-Shelf http://www.scribd.com/doc/238738/26-Mar-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Getting-it-off-my-chest Random Blog Posts from my MySpace Blog 26 Mar 2007 Getting it off my chest Current mood: angry Category: Life To the ignorant git who accused my soft as sh*te lovely dog of attacking his vicious rottweiller tonight in the park. 1) There are plenty of opticians in town, you should consider paying one of them a visit. Your eyes must be quite poor, as poor as your education and language. I was watching what happened, because I do watch my dog even when she's not on the lead, and you were not. My dog approached yours to play, her tail was wagging when she ran up to him. He then attacked her as she Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:37:17 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238738/26-Mar-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Getting-it-off-my-chest http://www.scribd.com/doc/238737/25-Mar-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-No-Sleep-for-the-Wicked Random Blog Posts from my MySpace Blog 25 Mar 2007 No Sleep for the Wicked exhausted Current mood: Category: Blogging I hate it when the clocks go forward, it always catches me when I'm too busy to lose an hour. Well, let's face it, am I ever not busy these days? I managed to get those two articles and the competition entry done last week and posted in time. I've got more work on now, transcription and more people wanting articles. The Velvet deadline is looming. I recently joined YouWriteOn.com and I've been reviewing other people's work all week for that. Yesterday we had a fight night in th Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:36:44 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238737/25-Mar-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-No-Sleep-for-the-Wicked http://www.scribd.com/doc/238736/18-Mar-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Busy-Beeing Random Blog Posts from my MySpace Blog 18 Mar 2007 Busy Bee-ing Current mood: productive Category: Blogging This morning we picked up the lovely new car from Dan's Bangers (I say 'new' ironically). It cost £795 and my insurance was almost the same, no no-claims bonus. Shucks, looks like I'm back to being a teenage boy again. Well my Skoda has got boy racer tattoos on the bonnet, a dragon patterned steering wheel cover, and an air freshener that looks like a mini set of pink boxer gloves. Cool, haha. Was thinking of getting one of those shades made with names on Alys and Josie, but decided aga Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:36:11 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238736/18-Mar-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-Busy-Beeing http://www.scribd.com/doc/238735/03-Mar-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-A-Trip-Into-Town-Retail-Therapy Random Blog Posts from my MySpace Blog 03 Mar 2007 A Trip Into Town (Retail Therapy) Current mood: chipper Category: Life Never a dull moment in the H-E household. The boy needed piano music for his grade 1 exam. I'd ordered it from Amazon. But once it came I realised that I'd bought the 2006 book and should have bought the 2007 book. So this meant that *gasp* we would have to go into town to visit a real shop and buy the book over the counter. We had an early rise for this endeavour: Alys hates going into town on a Saturday as you can't park so goes as early as she can and gets there before t Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:35:07 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238735/03-Mar-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-A-Trip-Into-Town-Retail-Therapy http://www.scribd.com/doc/238734/25-Jan-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-When-Is-Personal-Information-Too-Much Random Blog Posts from my MySpace Blog 25 Jan 2007 When Is Personal Information ‘Too Much’? Current mood: contemplative Category: Life I was brought up to believe that asking personal questions is nosy and rude. Likewise, sharing personal information with other people who are acquaintances rather than closest friends is rude, brash and common. What my mother might refer to as 'airing your dirty laundry in public'. So I was quite surprised when I moved away from home and discovered that sharing personal information is seen as a natural way to pass the time, even deeply personal information Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:33:15 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238734/25-Jan-2007-Random-Blog-Posts-from-JosieHenley-MySpace-Blog-When-Is-Personal-Information-Too-Much http://www.scribd.com/doc/238101/Sunday-extract Extract from ‘Sunday’ short story published in Seven Days anthology Copyright Josie Henley-Einion Bones cracking, I ease myself up in my seat. I grapple with the controls, my fingers stiff, and finally hit the correct button to lever the chair into a reasonably upright position. I press the clockwise arrow and begin to slowly revolve so that I am facing the window. I am ready for the sun. The grey slanting half-light recedes, to be replaced by streaks of golden pleasure. I salute the sun with my hand, a girl-guide gesture that I learned in 1923 and used professionally until I retired from Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:31:57 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238101/Sunday-extract