It's a finger nail biting moment

 The time is 07:46am I received an email last night from a popular podcast show called The Writing Show. It's hosted by Paula B and she informed me that she will be looking at my book in her next show. The show is posted today and because it's in America I'm not sure what time. I have checked twice already. They are a few hours behind and I have no clue as to what time zone she lives in. Oh he'll I'm nervous, its that someone else is reading my work with a critical eye. I have listened to Paula B's podcast for years now and very much respect her view, I even look forward to listening to it because I know it will help me with the book. Still the nerves are here. You will be able to find this podcast athttp://www.writingshow.com or on iTunes it's labeled as slush pile workshop 22.

The time is 8:22pm I have now listened to the podcast and before I give you my update I thought I would explain why I time stamped the post. Why not post the bit above this morning then post this update? Well because I think i wanted to keep it together and I like the format it's like a diary of today's events. And who wants to keep getting emails that I'm posting every two hours. Back to the podcast, Paula B read my chapter and that was strange in its self. I have listened to her read other peoples writings for years. She was kind with a large scoop of honesty. In brief my story is good, my plot is good. It's very cinematic. These are some of the good points that she talked about on the show. The main point was copy edit, copy edit, copy edit. I have to say that this does not come as to much of a shock, I must be the worst speller in the world and punctuation, well I'm still on that learning curve. In my defence I wrote the first chapter to Purple back in 2008 and I have learnt so much since then. I suppose my challenge now is to bring that what i have learned to the book and stop being lazy. Give it a listen and by all means give me your opinion especially with the word tw*t (for a full disclosure of this word listen to the podcast) as this seems to have a different meaning in the states and I think I may need to change it.