Showing posts with label YouTube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YouTube. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Eye in the Sky

Thanks, everyone, for weighing in on Monday's post! I debated posting it, but it certainly provided an interesting discussion and lots of wine for thought.

Two lovely little bits of news to share with you: Chick Lit Love and The Alliterative Allomorph have both reviewed Willow. Yay! And almost 100 bloggers have now signed up for the Willow launch on 14th September. Thanks loads to everyone. There's still plenty of time to get your name down if you'd like to take part.

One of the things I struggled with while writing Willow is believability. Crazy things do happen in real life, and sometimes, reality can be much stranger than fiction. In fiction, though, we've all heard that things must happen for a reason.

In my novel, a YouTube viewer mistakes an image in a tourism video for Marilyn Monroe's ghost, and a village is suddenly overwhelmed as Marilyn fans flock to pay homage to where the icon was spotted. In the book, I worked in reasons for how such a thing occurs. But in real life, there aren't always explanations for strange internet phenomenons.

Take the video below, for example, which I first saw on the BBC! How on earth has this made the news in England, miles away from the actual occurrence? *shakes head*

There's nowt as queer as folk, as Willow's dad says. Happy Wednesday!


Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Cats and Frogs

I'm a big fan of animals in novels -- so big, in fact, that I've often put a few in mine for no apparent reason and ended up having to remove the poor things at later stages. Cats, guinea pigs and roosters have all abounded! And a few will even live to tell the tale!

Do you put animals in your novels? If so, which ones?

On the animal theme, today I'm over at Catt Hughes' blog answering her wonderful questions. And courtesy of India Drummond, here is the cutest cat video I have ever seen.




Happy Tuesday!

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

What's Hiding in Your Closet?

Since Amazon sales rankings are consuming about 99.9% of my brain these days (the other .1% being wine, of course), I got a good laugh out of this video. Thanks to India Drummond for sending it my way!



My Internet connection is a bit moody these days, so I apologise for not returning comments as swiftly as usual. Have a great Wednesday, everyone!

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

You Know What Freud Says...

I was all set to go today for Ten for Tuesday. Truth be told, though, after spending hours measuring the washing maching -- and don't let anyone tell you that's not fun -- I no longer possess the mental fortitude.

So I leave you with this YouTube clip, featuring an epic slip of the tongue yesterday by the legendary BBC radio announcer James Naughtie.

Have you ever fell victim to a Freudian slip in public? And if so, how did you recover?