AgentPete

AgentPete

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  • AgentPete
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    Coming up on today's Pop-Up Submissions... "My October" - middle grade adventure fantasy by Jennifer Claessen; "Hashtags: A Novel" - literary / commercial fiction by Polly Becker; "The Gray Nothing Scar" - thriller by Rebekah Alexander; "Let Yourself In" - revenge thriller by Darren Burgess and "Family of the Stars" - epic fantasy by D. A. Smith. Join us LIVE at 5pm UK!
    AgentPete
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    AgentPete
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    Remember – today’s Pop-Ups starts at 5pm UK BUT since the US is now on EDT, that’s 1pm New York / 10am Los Angeles… see you later!
    Paul Whybrow
    AgentPete, is there a limit to the number of comments that can be made on your bus cough post? I've tried several times to add a comment and nothing happens.:(
    AgentPete
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    London Book Fair has just been cancelled! Seems like a panic move to me.
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    Rachel Caldecott
    Rachel Caldecott
    Oh, for heaven's sake! Whatever happened to "Keep Calm and Carry On"? What a nation of whoopsies!
    E G Logan
    E G Logan
    Once the big hitters started to pull out it was inevitable. The organisers are on a hiding to nothing -- I hope they are well insured.
    It's probably all down to Health&Safety -- no company would be allowed to 'endanger' most of its management team at one time.
    Barbara
    Barbara
    I'm trying to think of a silly comment I could leave here; something along the lines of 'Darn, now I can't go there to showcase the latest draft of my MS because someone might catch the sniffles', but I can't think of anything, so I'm just going to say: 'Oh, well, enjoy the days off.'
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    AgentPete
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    Somebody coughed on my bus just now. Everyone looked at them.
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    Dean Baxter
    Ah, Norfolk. I grew up in South Lincolnshire and have fond memories of holidays in Hunstanton, Cromer and Aldborough. Bizarre, lovely corner of the world.
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    Leonora
    Just back from Prague with tourists from everywhere. Terribly suspicious of the slightest sniffle.
    RK Wallis
    RK Wallis
    Our supermarket shelves are bare of toilet paper! Kids home with "sore throat," like hell, they're lapping up the no-school-if you-sniffle time. Only my youngest has a dry cough (nothing bad), now we need medical clearance before they go back to school...
    AgentPete
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    Coming up on this Sunday's Pop-Up Submissions... "Popcorn Fox in the Sands to the City" - YA climatic fiction by Oliver Prescott; "Outbox" - comedy by Tom Duggins; "Enemy on the Other Side" - speculative fiction by Caroline A Scott; "The Last House in London" - post-apocalyptic distopia by Theodor Bernard Kung and "Contractor" - memoir/espionage/adventure by Billy Mays. Join me LIVE in the chatroom at 5pm UK!
    AgentPete
    United-Nations
    Hollywood screenwriter Caroline Ryder is our special guest on today's Pop-Up Submissions, join us live at 5pm UK :)
    AgentPete
    United-Nations
    Urgent! LeahH has had to drop out of Pop-Ups today (she’s bed-ridden! Get well soon!!!) so if any other Litopian wants to jump in and fill the vacancy, send me a message NOW!
    AgentPete
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    So looking forward to having Arianne "Tex" Thompson guest on Pop-Ups this Sunday! I’ve never spoken to anyone whose middle name is “Tex” before :) And I hear she wears a cowboy hat too… unmissable!
    AgentPete
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    Unreasonably happy to find that Hayao Miyazaki is now on UK Netflix...
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    AgentPete
    AgentPete
    Really hard to choose. There was only one I didn’t love so much, The Wind Rises, which didn’t have the magic for me. I know very little about Japanese storytelling, probably only Miyazaki and Murakami, but they both seem to have a very loose but effective approach to story. May not be a representative sample, tho :)
    Emily
    Emily
    Spirited Away is a great favourite in this house. My eldest is a huge fan; now studying film in Uni and was taught himself Japanese for years thanks to Hayao Miyazaki :)
    Nikky Lee
    Nikky Lee
    I'm not sure how anyone can possibly choose one Studio Ghibli film as a favourite. There are so many amazing stories, Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, Grave of the Fireflies (which reduced me to a sodden mess of tears), and Castle in the Sky just to name...well, several.
    AgentPete
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    On tomorrow's Pop-Up Submissions: special guest Mo O'Hara with fantasy by Victoria Bastedo; commercial women's fiction by Caroline Meech; adult romantic fiction by lynn hughes; historical fiction by Victoria; dystpian by Theo Von Cezar. Join us live in the chat room, 5pm UK!
    AgentPete
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    Big day today, Ian McKellen recording Michelle Paver’s next book in the Wolf Brother series!
    AgentPete
    United-Nations
    Sorry, folk – last-minute substitution: The Lake at Standing Rock by Rachel O'Sullivan will now be on next weeks’ show and has been replaced on today’s show by "PINTO!" by M.J. Evans.
    AgentPete
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    Join me live in the Litopia chat room for today's show... with fiction by Andrew Smith; self-help by Julie Leoni; historical by Hannah Rose Marsden; social thriller by Sinead Nic Cionna; speculative by Rachel O'Sullivan. At 5pm UK.
    AgentPete
    United-Nations
    Coming up on this Sunday's Pop-Up Submissions... "Alice the Wise" - ya sci-fi by Bob Albo; "One in a Trillion" - suspense/thriller by Darren Burgess; "Toubab Tales" - travel / biography by Rob Baker; "Our Wandering" - upmarket by Lorna Brown and "The Eye Collector" - urban fantasy/thriller by Simon Kewin. Join me live at 5pm UK here in the Litopia chatroom!
    AgentPete
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    My first Rolfing session this Saturday. Apprehensive.
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    Barbara
    Barbara
    And? How was it?
    AgentPete
    AgentPete
    Not nearly as painful as I expected! In fact, virtually no discomfort. Not so much a massage, more like pushing the fascia around – a lot. Nearly two hours. Still thinking about it, but not as intense an experience as I suppose I was actually hoping for. Ashtanga is so darn intense, I probably expect everything physical to be on that kind of scale now. I didn’t cry :)
    Barbara
    Barbara
    You're probably fairly relaxed already and so used to intense work like you say, or they didn't work deep enough. It might hit you tomorrow. Are you going again? Maybe they are willing to get in there if ask for deeper work.
    L
    Hi Pete, thank you for voting my submission, ‘The Beating Heart’, as winner yesterday. I very much appreciate the feedback from you, Ali and the chatroom, and will re-write my opening accordingly. I’ll probably re-submit in a few weeks. Leaving the genre off the submission was an unintentional mistake on my part. I watch Pop-Up Submissions most weeks because I find it so helpful. All the best, Liz Brown
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