Jane Maree

@skredder Yup!

@skredder Tomorrow’s fine then 🙂

Okay, bye!

@skredder Oh, dear, Casse….

Whatever works for you. Was it supposed to be today?

Evie waved a shy hello 😉 She says she likes your profile pic.

@skredder Yeah, I’m nervous and excited at the same time. At first, I wanted to try a literary agent, but this being my first novel that I wrote since getting serious about writing, I wanted to wait a little while.

How’s Casse? 😉

By the way, Evie is here, sharing a bowl of chocolate ice cream with chocolate chips and chocolate syrup with me (we…[Read more]

@skredder Awesome! 😉

I’m working on my dystopian WIP, hoping to finish the first draft and edit before the Realm Makers conference. I hope to get an editor to take a look at it there. 🙂

@skredder I think so 😉

@alia @rochellaine @seekjustice @skredder Anyone on for a bit?

@rochellaine

Sorry I went to sleep before I could get back to you. 🙂

This is the WW1 short story/novellette thing I was editing a little while ago and telling you about.

Thank you so much!! That would be brilliant 😉

@Rochellaine *snorts* I really want to read that story.

@rochellaine Yes, @seekjustice will simply have to visit us here in the States so we can show her our ways. 😉

@rochellaine You mean the thing guys mostly do, they handshake then use their free arms to hug? If that’s what you’re talking about, I don’t think it’s weird. A lot of people do it. I think it’s kinda a guy thing. 🙂 very American @seekjustice 😉

@rochellaine I haven’t set up myself for the author account thingy (yet!), so I wouldn’t be able to tell you exactly how it worked. But I copy/pasted this here for you, maybe it’ll help:

Follow these steps to apply for the Author Program:
1. Sign in or create an account, and then search for your most popular book via ISBN, ASIN, or title.
2. On…[Read more]

@waterlily yeah. What he said.

@rochellaine

If you’d rather not though, that’s fine. 🙂 I just thought I’d ask since you seem knowledgeale on the process.

@Rochellaine

Hand shaking just isn’t a thing with youths here, which is a shame because I like shaking hands (it makes me feel powerful since I can make grown butchers wince. I just have to remember not to crush the old ladies). But you can always go for the high five if they initiate it. 😛

I was stalking Jen’s self publishing thread and saw…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Well those other greetings are pretty standard here, particularly the fake kissing when it comes to older people. I often shake older peoples hands and hug my female friends and do some kind of awkward head nodding thing with male friends.

Um…hmm…I was wondering if I would be able to ask a favour of you?

@rochellaine

Our anthem is quite long too, and we usually only sing the first two verses.

Well I guess its not weird…I’ve just never seen anyone do it. It just sounds awkward, trying to handshake and hug at the  same time.

@waterlily The standard way to get around age limits is to use the joint venture approach. Basically, someone older than you (a parent, probably) agrees to be part of what you’re doing. They can create an account on MailChimp and let you use it. If they ever stopped letting you use it, legally that would be fine unless you had signed some sort of…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I saw a meme on Pinterest the other day about Aussies singing the national anthem and it was so accurate. Basically, we’re usually only asked to sing the anthem during Anzac Day or other military commemorations. We’re asked to take off our hats and stand, then we hesitantly begin to sing “Australians, let us all we rejoice for we are…[Read more]

@rochellaine Ha, that’s hilarious! Sounds like you had a great time 😉