A Different Me

I thought it was about time I updated my photo image so here it it.
I would like to add that is a sun burnt nose and nothing to do with my supposed alcohol intake :)

Shah Opens Up

My good friend and writing colleague Shah Wali Fazli author of The Interpreter has given a rare interview to Jun Ying. It gives an interesting insight into his background and how he came to writing his books.
The link is here.
http://www.junyingkirk.com/?p=1478
Very well worth a viewing.

Night at the Movies: 20 second movie pitch - Erasmus, Shasta and Merlin...

Night at the Movies: 20 second movie pitch - Erasmus, Shasta and Merlin...: When the mercurial Erasmus sees Shasta in a vision across time, he knows he has to have her. He will still have to work out how to reach her, but once he does he is not going to let her go, not even if he has to change the past, the present and the future to achieve his goal.

Based on the 'Erasmus, Shasta and Merlin' trilogy by Teresa Geering.

The 'In' Thing

Many of us put videos on you tube these days and I'm no exception so I thought I would air these:
This one is me opening the proof copy of my first published book
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT9NI96clAM

Reading from The Eye of Erasmus in three parts
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyOxpPhUSWs&feature=BFa&list=ULs5ppmXEhrVI&lf=mfu_in_order

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtTe-R11J2M&feature=BFa&list=ULJyOxpPhUSWs&lf=mfu_in_order

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI7NOvj0YOw&feature=related

If you enjoyed the excerpts from Eye of Erasmus (now with it's new dramatic cover)  you can buy them here:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_9?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=eye+of+erasmus&sprefix=eye+of+er%2Cstripbooks%2C204

Shasta Summer which continues the series can be found here:
http://www.amazon.com/Shasta-Summer-Teresa-Geering/dp/1463574185/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327312902&sr=1-1

They are both at bargain prices at the moment so well worth snapping up.

My Lossie

Twenty years ago I took on a rescue cat that was ten months old and badly mistreated. Within a couple of months I discovered I was allergic to cats but I had taken him for the length of his life come whatever. He had had a rough trot at the beginning and needed some security.
Over the years  he would sit in front of me and we would have many conversations about his daily adventures (he being a Siamese cross black domestic that never stop talking.)
Over the last few months he started to get some 'qwerky habits' and I realised he had feline senior dementia. Eventually I bit the bullet and phoned the vet for an appointment for euthanasia explaining my concerns. I was given an evening appointment for last Monday. It was the longest day I can remember and I was a total wreck by four o'clock. My son and his 'missus' took me, and on the way he wee'd in his basket and as he was on my lap it soaked me through to the car seat. My son laughingly said "He is sending you a last defiant gesture mum" which made me smile. The first one all day. I walked into the vet looking like I had been in the saddle for a week. Fortunately the vets had no pets or owners in there at the time.
We were taken through to the vet straight away. Taking one experienced look at Lossie she said "Oh poppet you're in you're own little world aren't you" whilst assuring me he was in no pain. I cuddled him tightly to me as his little spirit was finally laid to rest.
He is going to be buried in my back garden along with my son's cat (five years old that passed on just before Christmas 2011), a robin, a squirrel, and a young fox. No wonder I have so many crows in my garden.
Rest in peace dear Lossie.