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Gaby - The Girl

Well the first part of the 14th Gaby Book - The Girl can now be found, here on BC just click here!

As I've previously mentioned, I shall be going to Germany on Wednesday so the next posting will be a couple of weeks away. Enjoy this chapter and prepare yourselves for more Wunderkind adventures in the run up to the festive season.

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Nena Book 4 *Four Star* - Part 8

So today the final part of Four Star is up! I hope you enjoy it.

Writing Gaby Book 18 continues apace and a heads up, Book 14 will start being posted this coming Sunday! So if you've been waiting patiently or just enjoy revisiting the books, The Girl will hopefully keep your attention!

Also, with a following wind, you should be able to find the second Gaby book, Summer Girl, available as an Amazon printed book within the next day.

ttfn

Maddy

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News from Yorkshire

So its been a little damp on this rock this week, 'Angus' doing his best to drown half the population and wash away the rest!

It does mean that I've not been tempted much beyond my front door for a few days which in turn means my editor has taken delivery of more new Gaby than I had anticipated, the first 6 of the new book are complete. This in turn means that with a following wind the first complete arc may be made available on Sunday! I've written so fast I don't even have a title yet.

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Amazon paperbacks

Hey peeps

As the more observant of you will have spotted Amazon have started an 'on demand' print service. I'm in the process of making all the Gaby series available, the Nena books are already up.

Amazingly there have been some hard copy sales already, so my query is, if you have bought an Amazon print book what do you think of them?

Whilst this isn't intended as a sales plug I would just like to remind you that if you are buying anything on Amazon if you log in through BC this site gets a 'royalty' - Gaby sales last month put $50 in the coffers in this way.

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Here is the News

So first we've got this weeks chapter of Nena Four Star, Part 4.

Below, as promised yesterday, is the sample German translation followed by the original English text. I know its not perfect, I know it needs some tweaks here and there, what I need to know is whether its readable or just so rubbish its useless.

Cheers & thanks in advance
Mads

ps the text is from the latest Nena tale 'Remind Me Again'

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German Gaby etc - an update

You may recall I posted about my desire to make at least some of my scribbles available in other languages, firstly in German.

Rather than go pell mell into it I started with a sample chapter and sent it to someone with a good understanding of English as well as being a native German speaker. Now I know it's not perfect, I expected it to need a bit of tweaking on spellings/tenses but with my limited German skills I could follow the general gist of things. but apparently it made little sense to a German.

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Remembrance

On this, Remembrance Sunday I always find it difficult to watch the old soldiers on their march past the Cenotaph, it is they, not the politicians, who lay everything on the line for our freedom. They didn't all volunteer but they all played their part, today we honour them.

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New Book Stuff from Maddy

In an effort to make my scribbles more accessible I've now (hopefully) set up Amazon print versions of the full Nena series of 6 books! Don't hold your breath, they may take a day or two to come on line but if dead tree is your thing - well there are no excuses now!

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up - date!

So a busy bit of week, lots of writing, a nice day visiting my daughter and you get a chapter too!

Click here for Book 12+1 ch 37

Sometime this week i'll have Book 17 finished, The full volume should be out next weekend, part 4 could be ready for Wednesday if you are collecting in smaller chunks!

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More stuff at Amazon

So I've added more titles to the roster of Amazon print, Gaby books 11 to 15, if you prefer dead tree copies and Amazon is your preferred buying portal hop on over to my UK Amazon page or US Amazon page and order your copy now - or treat a friend! Buy through the BC portal and dosh goes straight into BC coffers

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A Heads Up for Gaby Fans

Well the good news is that i've had a good days writing, 3 chapters in the time it took me for one yesterday!

So that means that there will definitely be a new volume of Gabyness on Sunday, part 3 of the 17th Gaby book. I will of course post links on the day in question when for the more patient there will be a new part of book 12+1.

I'll be cracking on with the final arc tomorrow, it should, in theory, be ready by mid November!

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You don't realise

how much you rely on your computer until something goes wrong.

Today i've spent best part of 10 hours writing a single Gaby chapter - a task that generally takes less than half that time. The reason? The files I needed to check for continuity were on my dead computer so I had to go a very roundabout way to access copies. A two minute job became half an hour and then had to be repeated - grrr, so annoying!

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extra! extra! read all about it!

Whatever 'it' is!

So this week I've been cracking on with writing, another 3 chapters of Gaby are with my editor now, that's 6 in the last week, and I'm all ready to hit the keyboard again in the morning!

Here on BC the next Gaby chapter is ready here!

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New Gaby time

Must be a record - I've managed four postings when I planned to!

Yup, there is a new chapter today, 33 of Book 12+1 and you get to it by clicking here!

New writing is happening, a bit of a cold has slowed things somewhat but I'm still on track for the promised part 3/Book 17 next weekend.

Tschussie

Mads

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assistance needed

Heya peeps

The stories that not just me but almost everyone else write and post in the 'TG' genre are something like 99.9% in English. This means that they are at best difficult and worst completely beyond the majority of the world's population to read and enjoy. It has always been my intention to make at least some of my works available in other languages, a project that was indeed started many years ago but ended when my 'team' lost interest in continuing.

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Yorkshire does it again

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Done what I hear you ask. Well secured the biggest cycling spectacular so far, the 2019 road World Championships! So start planning to come visit it us now for 9 days of the best riders in the world, racing around God's own County.

And you know that being Yorkshire we'll be going the extra mile to entertain you all with a huge festival of supporting events, something for everyone.

Let's hope our Gab gets selected!

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Update and new chapter

Yup, I've managed it, another chapter of the Wunderkind story is up here.

Keeping on a Gaby theme, I've started scribbling on the series again, my editor received 4 new chapters this morning! There is a remote chance i'll have the current arc complete for Wednesday.

To my computer woes - thank you everyone who offered help and support, things are kind of sorted and i'l be taking much more precaution in future!

So ttfn, ciao and tschuss

Mads

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disaster

A day of extremes here in Yorkshire.

The positive - I'd been stressing over my income to cover the next month for a few days and a visit to the bank this morning cheered me up no end. There's enough to get me through the month if i'm careful and don't go mad eating or buying stuff. Why is this month tight? Well the trip to Austria pretty much used up every penny I had then a follow up of trips to London and next week's trip to Germany have ensured things remain very tight. After next week though I get a few weeks to consolidate things so things will become easier.

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News from Yorkshire!

Hi all

Well first I have to tell you that there won't be an update on Sunday - I'm off to the mountains of Essex for my last cycling event of the season, the L'Etape London, 180km of well I doubt it'll be to bad unless it rains! Anyhow, as a result I won't be near a proper internet connection until next Wednesday when of course there will be a new chapter posted.

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for those who might be interested

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As you might recall, two weeks ago I pushed to the edge when I rode the Otztaler Radmarathon. Well today things were a little less stressed when I rode the Eddy Merckx Classic near Salzburg. (I won't bore you with the bit in between). Cycling bore that I am, I completed the 169km through the Salzkammergut in 6.5 hours almost exactly half the time I was in the saddle a fortnight ago.

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back to sanity

Team GB cycling - just wow!

In case you missed it - the entire track team come home with at least one gong each! That means our cycling team would place 11th in the current medal table!

We can now get back to some sort of normalcy as the rest of our team try to hang onto our second place in the medal table - yep second, not bad for a little rock on the edge of knowhere!

More Gaby later.

Mads

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just a heads up

I can confirm that the new Nena tale will be going up on Kindle and Lulu tomorrow.

Remind Me Again finds Chris volunteering to be Nena to save a job for Global - again! It's been two years in the writing, mostly because a certain young lady with sporting tendencies has taken so much of my time!

I'll try to get some of the other part written stuff finished between Gabyness - well after my big trip at any rate!

Ttfn
Mads

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congratulations

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To the Team GB track riders.

After Froomey's bronze we were waiting with bated breath and they've delivered and in some style! World records, gold medals - it looks like the avalanche is about to begin!

Maybe it's the new even rounder Italian wheels but I think it's three Weetabix!

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