Thank You

Thank you to everyone who has gone onto Autonomy and backed and read ARK.

Today I found myself ranked 983rd..that's from a starting point of around 4889 Th.

Now I really have my work cut out.

The consensus of opinion is that ARK has a great story line, but my grammar and punctuation and excessive use of adjectives leaves a great deal to be desired.

So the technical stuff IS an issue, I have always apologised for this by describing myself as a "sixties child", when I remember spelling and attention to all things formal, were frowned on in favour of free spirited writing. Clearly I can no longer continue to blame the sixties and need to wake up and smell the coffee pretty damn quickly.

One of the published authors on the site sent me the an email, suggesting that ARK was the kind of book that might be picked up from this site by a publisher/agent and that I should find myself a good editor.

Well..now its time to put my money where my mouth is, so if anyone knows of a friendly and extremely competent editor of YA books can they please contact me.

Tazzy is putting some feelers out for me, but I`m now in the realm of the unknown.

Just so that I don't become overly excited..the publishing site that I originally joined, sent the the most knicker grippingly awful review. One of those that was so cutting and spiteful that I wanted to hide my head inside a paper bag, I was sooo ashamed of myself for even thinking that I could write a book.

Thanks to my little sister, who gave me a serious dressing down and a good verbal clap around the head, I have recovered myself again.

If I ever master how to upload the comment [it was long!] I will put it on the blog. A veritable "howler" if ever there was one.

I have a very amusing little tale about this site. When I signed up for it, the menu's asked for my writing name...easy Dawn Evans, and then my forum name, so I chose [rightly or wrongly] Binky Myers, you may recall the first of my tortoises who I still love dearly, even with his/her cracked shell.

Now, I appear everywhere on this site as Binky Myers..people send me comments addressed to Binky or Binks and even Little , who is very enthusiastic about the book, has managed to circumvent the age limit on the site, and has appeared,rather hilariously, as BINKY MYERS JUNIOR.

I have decided that my "real name" is fading into the deep and distant past very rapidly..Moses still calls me "Missus", Regina calls me "Aunty Dee" [yuck!] and now a whole new Internet population know me as "BINKY"!!!!!!

Some pictures of the stunning wild banana , and Jakkaranda trees in the garden..so that this post is not barren of visual interest.

HUGE THANKS and KISSES ON THE LIPS TO EVERYONE XXXXXXXXX

DAWN