Victoria Connelly » Katie Fforde http://victoriaconnelly.com Fri, 18 May 2012 19:21:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Partying in Piccadilly http://victoriaconnelly.com/2009/11/partying-in-piccadilly/ http://victoriaconnelly.com/2009/11/partying-in-piccadilly/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:53:28 +0000 Victoria http://victoriaconnelly.com/?p=1289 Continue reading →]]> On Wednesday night, we had the pleasure of celebrating the launch of the RNA’s fabulous anthology, Loves Me, Loves Me Not.  This wonderful golden tome contains over forty fabulous short stories and is published to celebrate the RNA’s 50th anniversary.  Most of the contributors were there and we were all happy to pose in our finery on the amazing staircase at the Cavalry and Guards Club in Piccadilly.   

The Contributors 

Here I am with the RNA’s marvellous chair and writer extraordinaire, Katie Fforde - both of us wearing celebratory gold.

 With Katie Fforde

And chatting to the gorgeous and gracious Joanna Trollope.

With Joanna Trollope

I also met the lovely Adele Parks…

With Adele Parks

and Carole Matthews whose heels were snapped for Janet Gover’s shoe blog!

With Carole Matthews

And here I am posing on that fabulous staircase. 

Victoria Connelly

It was such a great evening and I hope we don’t have to wait another 50 years until the next one!

]]> http://victoriaconnelly.com/2009/11/partying-in-piccadilly/feed/ 3 Home and away http://victoriaconnelly.com/2009/10/home-and-away/ http://victoriaconnelly.com/2009/10/home-and-away/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:50:24 +0000 Victoria http://victoriaconnelly.com/?p=1141 Continue reading →]]> I really will have to think about moving to Chawton one of these days as I’m there so often.  My latest trip was to hear a lecture about Jane Austen’s manuscripts and it was fascinating stuff.  Did you know that our beloved author didn’t know how to use apostrophes properly?  She would send her hand-written manuscripts to the publisher with all sorts of crossings out and errors and they turned everything into the perfect prose that we know and love today.  But I think the highlight of the talk for me was actually being within touching distance of six first-edition copies of her books!

Chawton

Monday brought a trip to the Isle of Wight to deliver more of hubby’s paintings to Island Fine Arts.  We were anxious about the crossing as there was some heavy rain around but it was fairly smooth, thank goodness, and the sun even came out for us in the afternoon and we drove up to Culver Down where Roy painted and Molly and I went walking. 

 

Ferry Crossing

culver down

Back at home now and my first website competition has come to a close.  Katie Fforde chose the winner out of over three hundred entries and the signed copy of Molly’s Millions and the goody bag are winging their way to Chaitali in Illinois, USA. 

If you’d like to know more about Katie Fforde, have a look at the Writer Top Tens  page where you can also read all about Carole Matthews too!  More top tens coming soon …

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