[ebooktalk] Re: Introduction.
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:08:26 +0100
Hi Elaine,
Glad you joined our list, you have a very exciting life. Very brave to move to
another country, so far away.
It must be wonderful to be able to write, I hope you enjoy the extra time you
now have to devote to it.
Shell.
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From: "Elaine Harris (Rivendell)" <elaineharris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 9:08 AM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Introduction.
> Hello!
>
> I'm Elaine and such a group is a first for me. Good to be part of it and
> thank you to Trish for the invitation and David for sorting the
> techno-gremlins who tried to keep me out.
>
> First: I have begun "The Ice Cream Girls" but, pardon the pun, found it
> incredibly chilling though will probably go back to it.
>
> David asked if I would say who I am and how I fit in to the scheme of
> things:
>
> If you already know, feel free to ignore; if you don't and it's boring,
> likewise.
>
> Elaine Harris.
> Born in Derbyshire, went through the then traditional school system,
> Sheffield and Chorleywood, then did A-levels at a sighted grammar school
> close to home before reading English at the University of East Anglia. Wish
> their creative writing course had been so prominent but that's life.
> Have always told anyone who asks that I read English so that I could sit
> down and read a book while claiming I was working, which of course I was.
>
> Began working part-time in radio a few months after graduation, full-time a
> year later.
>
> I met Chris, known to my audience through the year as Himself, when I came
> out to Australia on holiday; he is a Yorkshireman by birth.
> Moved out here to marry a year later and here we still are; it's amazing how
> many of our closest friends are British.
>
> Have been in the broadcasting business for more years than I care to count,
> I am just about to wind up that career and devote much of my time to
> writing. I have had articles published in online newsletters, eleven pieces
> of work included in six anthologies to date and a play published twice in a
> national school magazine; plus some fiction and regular columns for online
> children's magazines. Mostly unpaid but fabulous discipline and great for
> the CV. Also articles for the ABC - Australian Broadcasting Corporation's
> website.
> Over the years I have met and interviewed many authors, and interviewed many
> more without actually meeting them. They are as fascinating and as diverse
> and, yes, unpredictable as their writings. Examples on request.
>
> Chris calls me a Booksurfer as I switch books as often as he does TV
> channels; I also read aloud to him. Last year, I was proud to be one of the
> official ambassadors for Australia's National Year of Reading; it taught me
> how lucky I am that reading came so easily to me.
>
> I read in other formats but in EBook form I am currently reading "A Waltz
> for Matilda" by my author friend Jackie French.
>
> Enough already.
>
> Thank you for your patience,
>
> Elaine
>
>
>
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