Tough times for authors everywhere, what with the travelling to events in all corners of the planet, the meetings in backrooms with hardly a muffin in sight, the deadlines, the solitude, the crazy rants you find written on your bedroom wall when you wake up (and the shame when you realise it’s your own handwriting)…
So here’s a little motivational image to remind us all why we do it…
"Dear mother, I've stolen your favourite gnome and disguised him as my brother..."
Your own captions would be most welcome…
07/07/2010 at 3:41 pm Permalink
JANET: You see, John, I told you kidnapping the cast of Glee would be easy. Now all we have to do is write the ransom letters.
JOHN: And we’d better not forget to pop a severed finger into each envelope, Janet. That’s how the Fox network will know we’re being very serious and grownup.
JANET: Golly, that’s a good point, John! Do be a dear and fetch mummy’s secateurs from the garden shed.
JOHN: Right-o! Oh, beng kidnappers is so much fun, isn’t’ it, Janet?
JANET: It is rather splendid!
08/07/2010 at 8:38 am Permalink
“Dear Jim,
Please can you fix it for me to look like a normal nine-year-old child instead of a 53-year-old accountant.
Best wishes
John.”