Next Meeting Tuesday 18th Januay 7.30.

Hi Scribblers,


The next meeting of the Scribblers will be at the Library next Tuesday 18th January at the usual start time of 7.30.

If you recall the homework topic is on any subject you wish except that it should be from a policeman's perspective. That should open up some interesting insights into what we think of, or how the police react in so many different situations. I do hope you can come along.

Omitted from the AGM report was the apology for non-attendance from Ruth. Also another of our on line contacts, Patricia informs me that she too has been published this year with poems "Ancestry" published in 'In This Life' and "Pluck me A Rose" in 'Rhyme and Reason' both by United Press.

Our friend Liliane is coming to the end of her holiday in Australia and we hope that she may just make the meal at our social on January 25th. If not then we hope she will be back with us in February.

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Just to finish off I have received an email from the famous old Mills and Boon who are looking for new authors, They say -

Think you have what it takes to write a romance novel?

This is your chance!

The editors are on the lookout for talented

new authors…

See inside for guidelines on each series

or visit our website:

mills and boon website

Did You Know…

· Harlequin Mills & Boon sell 200 million books world-wide each year – more than six books every second.

· Harlequin Mills & Boon Ltd is the first name in romantic fiction, selling 13 million books in the UK alone, which are enjoyed by more than 3.2 million regular British readers.

· Harlequin Mills & Boon books are sold in more than 100 international markets, in more than 26 languages around the world, with over 50 million female readers world-wide each year.

· Over 800 Harlequin Mills & Boon titles hit the stands each month around the world, generated from editorial offices in 16 countries. In total, Harlequin Mills & Boon has shipped more than 4 billion books around the world.

· UK libraries make 25 million loans every year.

· UK Market leader with a 74% share of the paperback romantic fiction market, which in total is worth more than £54M each year

· 1500 authors worldwide; 200 authors living in the UK; 600 new titles per annum; 50 per month.

· If you stacked every book sold in a single day on top of each other, the pile would be 35 metres higher than the Eiffel Tower.

· If you set out to read all the Harlequin Mills & Boon books sold over the past ten years, averaging a little over two hours per book, you would be reading for the next quarter of a million years.

We look forward to hearing from YOU soon

Alternatively I could forward you the attachment they sent with approximately 22 pages of information, fact and guidelines. If you are interested in receiving this information then I will forward the attachment to you when if you contact me here at scribblers@ntlworld.com

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I also have two pdf files from Dee Rimbaud containing his books Dropping Ecstasy With the Angels and also Stealing Heaven From The Lips Of God - one is a novel, the other is a collection of poetry. I am not certain that these are the kind of books that everyone would be interested in but the copies are preview copies and I offer to forward them to anyone interested in reading them. Please let me know at scribblers@ntlworld.com

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That's it!

Keep Scribbling and hope to see you next Tuesday!

Dave