Being Me

I mentioned the 'schooldays haiku' competition last week that I ran as part of my book launch. First, here's an anonymous one that was put through my letterbox. I love the fact that someone decided to do this. I don't know who it was for sure, although I do have a couple of ideas. But there's a sadness about it that touched me.  I'm posting the winning entries and highly commended here as I think you'll enjoy them. The winners get a free copy of my new book 'Miss, What Does Incomprehensible Mean?' and the highly commended get .... well .... highly commended. I didn't intend to do a 'highly commended' category but frankly had too many lovely haiku entered not to give them a mention, too.   All winners and highly commended have agreed that I can post their poems and their names. I'll hold off from posting their full addresses, dates of birth and internet passwords.  I have added some comments to show you why the haiku w...

So, my book 'Miss, What Does Incomprehensible Mean' is born into the world, and I thought some of you might be interested to see the book launch, which happened from my front room and was beamed out to the world via Facebook Live. Writers are having to do things differently in these days of lockdown! It's an hour of entertainment with games, jokes, clips from the book, Q & A, and a time lag that meant I saw comments 10 minutes after they'd been made, which added to the sense of the surreal. And, when I say the book is 'born', I actually mean that, and it happens on camera. Enjoy! You could fetch yourself Prosecco and cake as my live viewers did. https://www.facebook.com/430140043700388/videos/585865818722188/