Streamwriting

Am off to Almeria now for about 10 days to work on the magazine.  Long days, hot days, a bit of beach and a lot of sales.  So if you don’t hear from me, do not think I have abandoned you! 

I’m working, that’s all.

x

Hola!  just back from an amazing weekend in London.  Of course the one weekend where I leave the country, Spain do go and win the footie.  Well done.  Heard it was manic.  Flew back in this arvo to lots of excited people at the airport fluttering flags and talking even louder than usual.

Anyway, I digress.  Just back from an amazing weekend in London!  I crewed a BTS for the Christopher Howard Events - something about those weekends I adore.  There I am in a room of about 700 people watching them lose their inhibitions and start to believe in themselves again.  It’s really quite moving.  I know that personal development isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I finally got it this weekend.  Yeah, sure the events coordinators use the weekend to sell their products, but as this is a free weekend, that’s kinda ok don’t you think?  And the point is, that these courses and products do work.  I saw it on the participants faces all weekend - they broke through some of their limiting beliefs and learnt to believe in themselves again.  And if just one person in that room goes on a Christopher Howard course or buys his book, and it manages to transform their world (and most probably the world beyond theirs) then that’s a pretty cool thing.

I also fell in love with London again.  Seriously.  Joyfully.  So much so my bezza is twisting my arm to move back.  We went out Sat night to a party round the corner from her place in Peckham, and for the first time in years I went to a party where I DIDN’T know every single person in the room!  And so we found a random stranger, a man, and spent the evening doing what we do best.  Taking the piss out of him.  Well, he deserved it - he’d brought a bottle of wine to the party (as we do) but actually put it in the fridge and marked it as his own - to prevent others from taking it. 

‘C’mon!’ We exclaimed.  ‘It’s a party!’ 

He deserved our vitriol, took it in good grace and it caused us much fun.

London equals parties and strangers and abundance and choice.  It means a cup of chai at Victoria station, an empty double decker bus cruising the streets at 4.30am, a toasted bagel, a beer garden with wooden benches, an oyster card, cinema in English, bookstores where I can spend a whole day, book launches too.  My bezza went to her first one last week, not her own, but a hot new writer who spent about 7 years writing her first book and had a blog similar to this one.   She also used the Hilary Johnson Author’s Advisory Service and then one day her book got sold to Harper Collins.  Cue massive launch and one very excited chica.  And a blog which suddenly read - diary of a published author.

‘I thought of you!’ said my bezza.  ‘She was just soooooo excited.’ 

I’m now powered up to get my own book launch. It’s like everything is clicking into place right now and making it happen.  How cool. 

Another success story!!!!  This from a very talented writer called Penny Simpson. 

Hi Hannah

will take a look. Just to let you know, The Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum has
(finally) been published and is currently selling in the 3 for 2 in
Waterstones nationally as well as been chosen to launch a new promotion, Welsh
Book of The Month, in local stores. Fantastic news for the book. This was the
book you helped advise on, way back when.

More details on my website http://www.pennysimpson.com/ And streamwriting is in the
book’s acknowledgements.

Well done! 

Hey, check out this site  - it’s still in beta format - but well worth trying to enter.  Basically an online concept from Harper Collins where authors (that’s me and you!) can showcase our manuscripts to other authors.  The idea being that a manuscript can receive constructive comments  and eventually the most popular manuscripts will be highlighted and thus make it easy for  HC to streamline its slushpile. 

I’ve just uploaded my 1st 10,000 words for The Voices of Angels.  So if you’re just gagging to have a read (and comments most welcome) then try this link:

http://www.authonomy.com

I will eventually upload the 10,000 words on this site too. 

But in the meantime, do check out this site - I really like the look of it.

Then welcome!  Welcome to the wonderful world of Hannah’s writing blog. 

I hope you find the content of this site both entertaining and exciting!

Enjoy yourselves as you stroll through my pages (and my innermost thoughts….).

xxxx