'WINGS' soars to Hollywood

 Inspired by Kiara's ongoing success in Tokyo, I have re-formatted and re-edited my entire 12 episode script for 'Wings', and sent it off to a TV pilot competition under Screencraft.

Inspired by the autobiographies of women pilots during WW2, it is of course a tear-jerker, as the pilots and the fighter pilots they love die. As Lettice Curtis says, their whole world is being murdered.

But these girls were seriously nuts, and the humour and love of life (and love) are always there. As is the music. These girls swing!

With a much better idea of what I am doing following Griffith Uni Film School, I think its a bobby dazzler, darling. So lets get it up and get it going!

'MARY READ' now available at Lismore Library

 A few friends have asked me to make 'Mary Read - Sailor, Soldier, Pirate' available at the local library, and today I dropped a copy off for the Librarian. 

So now you can request it for the Nimbin Library bus delivery!

If you want your own copy, the paperback is available at the Green Bank, Nimbin.

Otherwise its both paperbacks and e-books at Amazon.

Thanks to all my fellow rovers for all your support over the years!

Mary Read reviews on Kindle

I am still steadily selling the 'Mary Read' books on Amazon, and ebooks on Kindle.
I went to check out any new reviews, and was really pleased to find two 5/5 reviews on Kindle.

By Jody Schulz : 

"I loved the book from start to finish. A really great read."

 

By Megan Donnelly :

"Fantastic!! What a journey!!"

Most readers like to check out reviews first, so they are very important to internet writers, so thanks very much.

 

At the moment I am working on a long and complex project, writing a screenplay for the BBC 'open access' month in September, when anyone with an English address can send in a script 'on spec'. Mine is based on eight biographies of women pilots in the second world war, and one of the operations officers. These women worked for the ATA, the Air Transport Auxiliary, along with male pilots. They  flew planes from the factories to the fighter squadrons, and to and from the maintenance units. They flew without radio, without being trained in blind-flying (for when the clouds came down), using basically a compass, a map and a watch. Many were posh and English, but they came from all over the globe, from all classes, and were a range of interesting characters. About 10% died, usually in bad weather. Some of them flew everything - starting with Gypsy Moths, they learned to fly the fast Spitfires and Hurricanes, and the massive Halifaxes and Lancasters. Their heroism was so impressive, they ended up getting equal pay for equal work, for the first time in history, with not one single objection being made in Parliament.

It is an absorbing project, and I have just got over the halfway mark, with  more death, more near-misses, and real heart-break. 

So, back to it, stiff upper lip, chin up!

Cherie

Mary Read at Mary Ryan's!

'Mary Read - Sailor, Soldier, Pirate' is now available at Mary Ryan's bookshop in Park Rd, Milton, for $25.

My book reading for 'Mary Read - Sailor, Soldier, Pirate' is at Toowong Library on Tuesday the 19th at 10.30am.

As the day is looming, I popped into Toowong Library today, to see what the promotion for my book reading was like.
I found they had a great display right next to the door, so I think it could be a good turn out.
I've printed lots of business cards, and 'how to buy on-line' forms and 'further reading' lists, and am now practising my talk, getting my speech cards lined up, and trying to be cool about it.
I only hope I don't sell all my books before the next reading, at Indooroopilly Library, Sunday 24th at 1pm.

I wrote a poem on an opera-singing busker in Queen St Mall. She stopped quite a crowd last Saturday, and out-sang the noise of jack-hammers and drills from the building site. I think she is truly incredible, and this poem is a tribute to her.

 

She Sang in Queen Street Mall

She sang again today

and her song filled Queen Street Mall

and flew soaring over jack-hammers

and held us all in thrall

A big brown Amazon

whose sound is liquid power

she stopped us in our tracks

and held us spell-bound for an hour

She sang to us of loss and pain

and we recalled lost dreaming

she sang to us in language strange

and we understood her meaning

And we filled her hat with gold

complimenting her clear call

for this hard city needs a soul

and she sings in Queen Street Mall

Cherie Pugh

A move into Brisbane has made it much easier to access the libraries here,
and I have set up two talks on 'Mary Read - Sailor, Soldier, Pirate'. 


One is at my local library, Toowong, 10.30-11.30 Tuesday the 19th of May.
The other is at Indooripilly, 1-2pm on Sunday the 24th of May.

I will talk about the history of the pirates of the Caribbean, their surprisingly strict code of behaviour, the women pirates, and Mary Read in particular.
After answering any questions, I will sell signed copies of my book.

All welcome.