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Kaiki · Jun 25, 2015

Hello, I'm BRAND NEW.

It's just taken me half an hour to add a profile picture. I am a luddite.

I've recently completed two novels and I work in a library. I'm currently listening to a ghost story radio play on Radio 4. I realise I sound really dull.

I'm here, you're there, it's all good.

Chase · Jun 25, 2015

Shhhhhhh! Stop tossing your noisy sabots into the library millworks, and quit braggin' you're faster postin' photos than the rest of us. :Hammer:

But congrats on your two novels, whether you read 'em or wrote 'em. :e2BIC:

And most importantly, :welcome:

!

pinkbowvintage · Jun 25, 2015

Congrats on the novels! What kind of fiction do you write?

T Robinson · Jun 25, 2015

Kaiki said:
Hello, I'm BRAND NEW.

It's just taken me half an hour to add a profile picture. I am a luddite.

I've recently completed two novels and I work in a library. I'm currently listening to a ghost story radio play on Radio 4. I realise I sound really dull.

I'm here, you're there, it's all good.

What is Radio 4?

Oh, welcome, enjoy yourself.

Wait, we can post photos? Chase why didn't you tell me?

T Robinson · Jun 25, 2015

FYI, I thought you were posting about Newt Gingrich, a reprehensible politician, who fooled around while his wife was in intensive care. Thankfully, not the case.

Jump on in by the way, the water is fine.

shivadyne · Jun 25, 2015

hi kaiki! welcome. i don't know what radio 4 is, but ghost stories are always interesting.

regdog · Jun 26, 2015

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Kaiki · Jun 26, 2015

Yup, just figured out how to reply to my own thread. I'm getting there.

I was listening to a ghost story by John Connolly called The Erlking on the radio - I think you can get it on iPlayer, it's well worth a listen.

I write adult contemporary fiction, mostly mainstream - the two novels I've just finished *could* be broadly called thrillers although I struggle to stop putting ghosts and monsters in them so I guess horror too? Something like that. It'll be going along fine and then I'll realise there's a crop circle or a werewolf lurking somewhere, echoes of all the King novels I read as a kid.

Kaiki · Jun 26, 2015

Aaaaand the reference to Newt is from ALIENS BECAUSE IT IS THE BEST FILM

jon56780 · Jun 26, 2015

That's it man, game over man, game over!

thehairymob · Jun 26, 2015

Chase · Jun 26, 2015

T Robinson said:
What is Radio 4?

Oh, welcome, enjoy yourself.

Wait, we can post photos? Chase why didn't you tell me?

I'm still trying to figure out how radio works. Where are the closed captions? Or does a librarian stand beside a radio and sign? All these new devices are confusing, like the recent shift in libraries from easy-to-read scrolls to pages you have to flip and read the other side.

:welcome:

again, Kaiki. :greenie

PoeticRendezvous · Jun 26, 2015

Welcome Kaiki, we are both newbies here.

lucky toaster · Jun 27, 2015

Welcome!

NatGSharpe · Jun 27, 2015

Welcome and I think it's super cool that you work in a library! Speaking of which I need to slink off to get those books I have on hold...

Booklover199 · Jun 28, 2015

Hello and welcome!

Foxtrot · Jun 28, 2015

Welcome from an X library worker but sorry no picture yet.

Corsairs · Jun 28, 2015

Kaiki said:
Aaaaand the reference to Newt is from ALIENS BECAUSE IT IS THE BEST FILM

You are clearly wise. We can be friends.

Welcome, Kaiki! I'm a fellow newbie and a fellow Luddite, so we'll have to bounce knowledge off of one another as we begin exploring this little corner of the Interwebs.

You stir memories when you talk of reading Stephen King novels as a kid. He pretty much single-handedly made me a book lover, and I'm of the firm opinion that absolutely any story can be improved by even just one lurking werewolf. I look forward to hearing about your novels as you get further through the editing process.

Eslin · Jun 29, 2015

Hey there, this place is amazing i'm sure you'll fit right in.

Kaiki · Jun 30, 2015

This is a lovely welcome, thank you! Is there an area on the boards for general misery and rejection? I am feeling that today.

SO.

MUCH.

REJECTION.

CSPayne · Jul 2, 2015

Kaiki said:
Aaaaand the reference to Newt is from ALIENS BECAUSE IT IS THE BEST FILM

Agreed. Welcome.

La nuit etoilee · Jul 2, 2015

Hi Kaiki!! There are tons of threads about the misery of rejection! I feel youuuuu! 4 novels, all queried, 2 shelved (200+ rejections) but I have hope for the other two yet! I love adult contemporary/thriller and your novels sound awesome. I write women's fiction, but it's dual narrative, with historical elements and a bit of creepiness and mystery too. I'm also a newbie.

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