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. -------------------------------------------------- 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 > > >