Margaret Mayo Romance Author

I’ve had no network connection for the last day and a half. I spent half an hour on the phone with the techie guys yesterday at AOL checking my set up – I was eventually passed through to some other guy who told me that British Telecom were having trouble with their broadband line. BT had kindly let AOL know. They’d been working on it for fifteen hours and would get it up and running asap. The guy actually gave me the time in hours, minutes and seconds

Last night we were having a meal with friends and on our way out of our village (we live right out in the countryside) we saw three or four BT vans parked on the roadside. So the problem was apparently there. A strange place, but still. Anyway, it was nearing midnight before we returned home, and the vans were still there, with two deep holes dug on the grass verges either side of the road, bright lights shining into them. So we stopped and asked – and the answer was that some mindless vandals had dug down, cut into the copper wire, and pulled a whole lot out to sell. Copper must have a high price. We were told it’s happening all over the place.

My thoughts are, how do the culprits know where to dig? I guess eventually the copper wire will be replaced with fibre optics, but meantime, how often is this going to happen?

On a brighter note, I have the go ahead for my book. I wrote two pages yesterday, so at least it’s a start.

I have today sent another revised synopsis to my ed. If this doesn’t work I shall give up on the whole idea and start again.

Now I have proofs to read of my last book. It will be published in March next year with the title of Married Again To The Millionaire. I’m hoping that by the time I’ve finished them I will have heard from my ed and it will be all systems go. I’m getting withdrawal symptoms from not writing.

The netbook internet connection has been solved, after about two hours on the phone to the techie guys. Both AOL and Dell. I had a headache by the time I had finished. But now I’m happy.

I’m not so happy though that my ed still has reservations about my synopsis. Basically the whole story could be resolved by a conversation. Apparently! Am I losing the plot? I’m going to take another look at it over the weekend and then if it still doesn’t work, I’ll bin it and start again. At least I have another idea sitting waiting to be looked at. One that excites me.

Have a good weekend.

I feel in limbo waiting to hear from my editor, but the good news is that my new contest is now up and running – until the end of September.

It’s very simple. What was my first book called? I thought that after 75 books you might find it interesting to see what sort of titles the books had way back in the 70′s. You’ll find the answer on my website (all you have to do is email me with the words August/September contest in the subject line) and the first three names pulled out of the hat on October 1st will receive copies of one of my back books.

I didn’t get any further with Skype as my sister in law forgot to get in touch. So another time.

I’m playing about on my computer while I’m waiting for my sister in law to get in touch on Skype. Then we’ll see what happens. We have it set up on my DH’s computer and he’s having sound problems with it. A loose connection somewhere I think. There always seem to be problems with computers and for someone who’s not computer savvy it’s a headache. I’ve just invested in a netbook, which I thought would be better than carrying my heavy laptop around whenever I’m away. Now I have the problem of setting up an internet connection. It doesn’t have a disk drive to add my AOL to it – and external ones are pretty pricey. There must be a way around it, so that’s another headache on the horizon.

And by the way I’ll soon be running a new contest on my website so do look out for that.