I was in fact copying Attack State Red because he/she started doing it so I thought it was ok. They didn't seem to get anywhere near the level of grief that I got. However, they are not as lippy - they simply just post reviews and don't respond to the back lash.

I haven't read it but it's edited by Rowland White (author of Vulcan 607 and Phoenix Squadron) and he was a legend at Penguin (Michael Joseph) and told me that it was an incredible book. It is co-written by The Daily Mirror, defense correspondent, Chris Hughes as is more regular in this genre - I am the anomaly. RW has left Penguin now and is editing for Orion. RW also edited Sniper One (ghosted by Tom Newton Dunn) and Joint Force Harrier.

Hello AB you missed some fireworks the other day when someone registered to plug this book

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Let-You...7032415&sr=1-1

No doubt Don't Let Your Tea Go Cold is the biggest pile of garbage ever commited to print so bad that it was published by this company who confess to printing anything

http://www.blueoceanpublishing.biz/faq.php?faqid=1

I actually defended you since your book is at least based on truth featuring real soldiers getting shot at by real bullets but the thread was pulled since the original poster deleted their topic heading and their post


Don't Let Your Tea Go Cold by a couple of tea drinkers who live with a fluffy animal featuring completely made up incidents on a cold Belfast night . So bad that the authors had to pay someone to publish it . I doubt if Ridley Scott will be buying the film rights

Thanks Spanny! I do appreciate your support. I might be a PITArrse but I am a legitimate one - tee hee!!

I did catch the thread prior to it's removal. It was the husband and wife tag team one, that was vanity published. As I am living that particular dream it didn't really appeal. But it takes a lot of effort to write a book and if they have invested their own cash into getting it published then fair play if they want a ROI but as has been mooted v.openly on here - declaring your intention is best. Perhaps we should get someone to volunteer to read it and then review it honestly for them. Preferably not me - I am reading the Book of Shadows and then The Lost Symbol. I am interested in ancient belief systems what with 2012 pending.

I did pitch a Military Wives book to my agent - it was called MWAH (Military Wives at Home) it was about 5 very different wives brought together by marriage to the military. It was set against the backdrop of GWII and addressed the dilemma between supporting your husband but not supporting the conflict he was fighting in. My agents rejected it saying that publishers are only buying celebrity bios, war books and established author brands. Plus apparently nobody in an economic recession wants to read a book about of bunch of wives dripping cos their hubbies have been sent to war. I still have the proposal if the appetite changes. Also I do think you shouldn't shit on your own doorstep so it would have to be a fairly accurate depiction of military life in order to be credible so maybe it's destiny. As it was fiction I was planning to Sex in the City it up a bit! Poledancing swingers we are not - on the patch I am living on but I can't speak for the whole of the nation.

Apologies ATSR to hijack your thread with our chattering - but hey at least we are keeping you top of the forum, without you having to pop up another Amazon review. Pip pip. AB xx

Fill your boots.

I bought Target Basra and then bought Attack State Red shortly after. Can't wait to get onto it! Really enjoying Target Basra though.

Originally Posted by Arrse-Bandit

I did pitch a Military Wives book to my agent - it was called MWAH (Military Wives at Home) it was about 5 very different wives brought together by marriage to the military. It was set against the backdrop of GWII and addressed the dilemma between supporting your husband but not supporting the conflict he was fighting in......

AB xx

Have you thought about adapting for screenplay and shifting it to present day - i.e Afghanistan backdrop? Could be a one hour 'play for today'.

Originally Posted by bigeye

Originally Posted by Arrse-Bandit

I did pitch a Military Wives book to my agent - it was called MWAH (Military Wives at Home) it was about 5 very different wives brought together by marriage to the military. It was set against the backdrop of GWII and addressed the dilemma between supporting your husband but not supporting the conflict he was fighting in......

AB xx

Have you thought about adapting for screenplay and shifting it to present day - i.e Afghanistan backdrop? Could be a one hour 'play for today'.

That's not a bad idea. I haven't written a 'play for voices' before. I would have to research the technique. I am meeting my agent on Thursday, I'll run it past him and see what he thinks. Radio 4 recently ran a feature on RAF wives so there is an appetite - apparently it was well received. Am working on a 'what the butler saw' Hotel Babylon with teeth look at the Superyacht world. If anyone thinks R4 would pick it up then PM me, and it would become a priority.

Originally Posted by Arrse-Bandit

That's not a bad idea. I haven't written a 'play for voices' before. I would have to research the technique. I am meeting my agent on Thursday, I'll run it past him and see what he thinks. Radio 4 recently ran a feature on RAF wives so there is an appetite - apparently it was well received.

Yeah radipo still takes unsolicited scripts . I tried my hand at screenwriting and scriptwriting about 12years ago and it was a bugger trying to get a script even read by producers . Should be remembered the likes of Play For Today etc ended in the early 1980s

Did you say you had an agent AB ? Believe me that''ll make things A LOT easier

I'll see what he says. It's only useful if he agree to present it. Just because you want to do something doesn't mean they always represent you. I don't know what the form is for radio - I'll ask. I have know my agent since 2004 and we have worked together on a couple of projects obviously he represented us for Immediate Response.

Originally Posted by Spanny

Originally Posted by Arrse-Bandit

That's not a bad idea. I haven't written a 'play for voices' before. I would have to research the technique. I am meeting my agent on Thursday, I'll run it past him and see what he thinks. Radio 4 recently ran a feature on RAF wives so there is an appetite - apparently it was well received.

Yeah radipo still takes unsolicited scripts . I tried my hand at screenwriting and scriptwriting about 12years ago and it was a bugger trying to get a script even read by producers . Should be remembered the likes of Play For Today etc ended in the early 1980s

Did you say you had an agent AB ? Believe me that''ll make things A LOT easier

http://claremacnaughton.wordpress.co...for-the-skies/

Click on the link - This is the journey to how I met my agent. It was quite convoluted. If you are interested.