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October/November 2004
Dear Visitor,
Oh, well…August and September were bang on
time, so you probably knew it was too good to last!
Sorry about October. Obviously, this update will
run through November for competition purposes. And
George groupies should click the George page for
news, as I’ve sworn a mighty oath to keep him
out of the newsletter for the time being!
Guess what? I’m going to be a great-aunt.
My niece Katy is expecting the happy event in May,
so I’ll have to become formidable and authoritative
by then, because everyone knows that great-aunts
rule the roost. I’ve never been much good at
roost-ruling, but maybe they do night classes or
something. And I think I should change my name. Jill’s
no good, is it? Great-aunts always have multi-syllabic
names. As ever, I would have been better off if I’d
been named Agatha.
I’ve got the digital camera – I’ve
so far only taken photographs of You Know Who, but
once I’ve got more familiar with it, I hope
to illustrate the newsletters from time to time – perhaps
let you see a bit of where I live, and so on. And
no doubt there will be photographs of the latest
addition to the family when he or she arrives, but
I’ll probably get his or her mother to take
them – she’s a real photographer. I’m
a point, shoot and hope photographer. Digital cameras
were made for people like me – you can just
delete the rubbish ones! (You may think I’m
publishing the rubbish ones, but you haven’t
seen the others.)
And – don’t say it too loud – I
think my broadband is working at last. Nine months
and goodness knows how many engineers after it was
installed, they finally cracked it. I’ve got
a special connection now that isolates the broadband
signal – it means that I can’t use the
computer anywhere other than that one point, but
that’s OK. And I got a fair bit back in compensation
for all the trouble, so that wasn’t bad. I
can now e-mail and look up things on the Internet
any time I like, which is lovely.
My other bit of news, of interest to those of you
across the pond, is that I have now seen and corrected
the proofs of the US edition of Unlucky For Some,
so it really is on its way, and is scheduled (subject
to change) to be on sale on January 25, 2005.
Don’t forget to have a look at this month’s
competition – September’s winners have
been notified, and I hope to get their prizes off
to them this weekend. Have a go – it doesn’t
cost anything and a signed first edition, a copy
of the Lloyd and Hill TV movie or an audio version
of one of my novels is your choice of top prize.
Runners-up get two signed paperbacks.
That’s it – as you’ll have gathered,
I am a little pushed for time at the moment. Between
now and when I next write to you, we’ll have
had Halloween, Guy Fawkes Day, Thanksgiving…and
probably many more festivals of which I am unaware
or have overlooked. Happy whatever, and see you in
December!
Love,
Jill
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