Prepare to Launch by Allison Symes
Thanks to all who supported my cyberlaunch for Tripping The Flash Fantastic . It was great to “see” many ACW people there. When I started writing, nobody had heard of the term cyberlaunch. I was spending lots of time queuing in the Post Office to get manuscripts weighed and sent off by snail mail. Most of what I needed to send to publishers would not fit in this box so a queue in the Post Office was something I got used to! Pixabay I was still using Tippex though never on a manuscript I wanted to send to a publisher. I used it for my drafts when I didn’t need to type out the whole document again at that point. And yes, younger viewers, there were days before computers, cloud storage, cut and paste, email submissions, the internet, and smartphone! Don’t mention dinosaurs to me. There are times I feel like I am one… I’ll have you know I can hear you sniggering from here!. So you’ve had to adapt, that’s what you’re telling us, Allison, isn’t it? Oh yes. (Cue the nodding dog from that...