Random picturage

View from the WWII airfield. I may have brought a lump of runway home.



Marloes beach. Love those rock formations!
(Very amusing name to the next door parish.)



Less impressive, a very pink me at UK Meet, courtesy of Jasper Van der Velde.

Guest author - Elin Gregory

I love Elin Gregory. She writes so well, (when she gets her light out from under its bushel!), with great style and humour. Her short stories in Tea and Crumpet/Lashings of Sauce are some of my favourites. Lovely to have her back here.

When you were last here we chatted about watching your first book fledge. What does it feel like with the second and the third?

Worse :D The first time you're enjoying all this fluffy innocent ignorance where you think that once the book is published the job is over apart from a little bit of gentle promotion. But then - THEN you realise that you have to do it all over again and make the second book better! One way round the problem is to start with a novella set in Ancient Greece and follow it up with something completely different - like a lengthy novel about pirates or by chipping into an anthology of humourous stories about Brits but you can only do that so many times. ( Read more... )

Blurb:

Bollocks as a word is a little naughty. It’s a little cheeky. It’s a little rude.
And it’s the tongue-in-cheek theme for this collection of short stories celebrating all things English.
You'll discover a bonk is not a typo for somewhere to keep your money.
A shag isn’t something thick and plush under your feet to keep them warm, though it is guaranteed to heat you up!
And as for a snog, the boys of Bollocks! can assure you it’s worth finding out what that Brit term means.
The stories will make you laugh.
They’ll make you snort.
They’ll make you blush.
Sigh—they’ll probably make you shake your head.
They may even make you want to catch the next flight to England to find something a little British of your own!
It's not just cricket, or jolly hockey sticks, it's more… it’s the very British, Bollocks!