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Do you know - I really don't think I'm much good at this blogging malarkey. I take comfort from the person (Sidin Vadakut?) who said that no one reads blogs any more but am not at all sure that's true. Trouble is, I keep forgetting that there's this little space in internet-land waiting to be filled in by me, never having got into the whole confessional diary-writing thing that my generation of schoolgirls was so heavily into. Even back then, it sounded like avoidable trouble to me - especially when my best friend, CK, got into terrible trouble with her mom who had sneaked a peek into her diary and nearly keeled over in shock at the line-drawing depiction she had done of her first kiss. Well, CK was never the artistic sort but she had reckoned that writing down a description was potentially too incendiary whereas a sketch was subtletly itself. Not, as it turned out, because (a) her mother was not the shy sort and felt that CK's diary was fair game for her perusal and (b) the sketch was pretty easy to figure out, even though CK had got the heads too far apart and had ended up having to extend both pairs of lips so that they could meet in a trumpeting mid-margin pucker. Bad idea,and oddly obscene looking, now that I know more about these things. Anyway. The blog. I think I'm going to give up, actually. Too many other things intruding all the time and most of them just a tad more useful/interesting than staring at my laptop screen and thinking ego-centric thoughts. The home for people with learning disabilities is progressing, albeit slow-ishly. 25 applicants already for the 8 places we plan to start with and there's every chance we'll have our residents in place by November this year. The writing - well, there's enough about my new book elsewhere on this site so I won't go on. But I do have to say - just once again - how excited I am to be launching 'A Scandalous Secret' at the Hay-on-Wye fest, where I'm on stage with a fabulous, best-selling Korean novelist called Kyung-Sook Shin. Thanks mostly to her (and a small bunch of loyal friends who are hacking it up from London), the event is already sold out so I do feel - well, yes, lucky but also terrified because Hay audiences are amongst the smartest and most discerning in the world. Wish me luck! |
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