Cover of Mango

Pamela is Great

Today is Pamela is Great day. Pamela is great for many reasons. Here is a poem I wrote, listing a few:-

To Pamela

Pamela, oh so fair,
I love your long silky hair.
The way you laugh is a joy to hear,
Your charming presence to be near
I long to be.
You know the way to care,
You do everything with such flare,
You are to me very dear,
And so I let out this cheer
for you to see!

I hope you like it Pamela, and I'm sorry I didn't see you at the weekend.

Mango Update

Yes, dear readers, Mango the unlucky monkey is finished. Around this time last year, I was almost finished Leaf in Search of Ramune. Everything is on track for a mid March book launch date, and I am planning a book launch party, so I will keep you posted on that. I also want to post the cover image for Mango as soon as possible, but I am still waiting for it from my illustrator, so watch this space.

Hello All

To my dear fans, hello! and warmest welcomes. I am sorry I haven't blogged in so long, but I have been so busy writing my latest novel, Mango the Unlucky Monkey, and getting it ready for its publishing date in March, that I haven't had any time to blog. I hope that in the next couple of weeks, when Mango is all wrapped up and sent out into the world, that I will have more time to update my blog on a daily basis.

So, dear fans, I am still writing and I am still here, and I will be back to you again soon.

Hang in there, because, you know, I'm worth it.

Mungo is great

It is great being me, Mungo. I am so handsome and talented and my writing is going so well at the moment. It has been going so well, in fact, I haven't been able to blog in ages. I know my fans have missed me, but when the muse is strong you have to roll with it. Anyway, I'm just taking a few seconds off to post this message and re connect with the fans. Mango is well on track for March publication and I think it is even better than Leaf - if such a thing is possible!

To Pinky - I hear you sent me an email but I never received it. Of course I would have replied if I had, but I didn't get it so I didn't reply. Love and hugs.

To Sparkie - I hear you are feeling rather depressed at the moment and lacking faith in how wonderful I am. Never lose faith in Mungo, I always keep my promises!

Got to get back writing now.

Mungo x x

Anniversary of Leaf

Started writing Leaf on the tenth of January 2006. My, how the year has flown. When I first set out on those tentative steps to winning DNOTY, I never thought I would be writing my second book the following year (thought I would have written it last November!)

Have a happy Leaf day!

Where will I put my cup?

My big dilemma now is where to put my lovely Nodpot of the Year cup, so that everyone can see it (especially Iseult, Valerie and Marvin) and I can gloat and see how jealous their pudgy green faces look. I thought I had found the perfect place last night. Iseult got a chest of drawers of something for Christmas and I thought my cup would look nice sitting on it, but she had gone and put girly cleansers and stuff on it, and I'm not going to let my cup share with that kind of stuff, so the search continues (as do the celebrations)

Nodpot of the Year 2006

I won, dear reader. Did you expect anything else?

Happy Christmas to one and all

HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!

The votes are in for the Nodpot of the Year, so only a few more days to go before I am crowned winner! Can't wait.

I will not tolerate arguments

on my blog, especially ones from cowardly people who will not post under their own name and give out about dear Pamela. I will not have Pamela bothered. If you dare to insult her integrity, take it up with Marvin and the other Nodpots who honoured her with the great task of picking Noddy of the year. I know Pamela will be totally impartial and correct. I will delete any more posts that cast spurious doubt on that. I've my angry face on. Don't mess with me, anon, when I have my angry face on. I might set Tottie on you.

Nodpot of the Year

I heard that the Nodpot of the Year nominations were distributed this week and the voting was done on Sunday. I am a bit peeved at that, because I am in Dublin at the moment and the voting took place in Blackrock. However, thankfully, Nobbles was my proxy. I know I can trust him to have voted right. Pamela is counting the votes and I know she will make sure everything is above board. No more fixes this year. The rightful winner (me) will win this year, no more fixes in Iseult's favour!

Remember - VOTE FOR MUNGO

October and November are voting for me, make sure you are too! Get your Nodpot of the Year ballot form from Monday.

The last Nodpot meeting takes place on Monday and the ballot forms for Nodpot of the Year will be distributed next week with voting closing on the 10th, so remember, VOTE NUMBER ONE FOR MUNGO! Don't be shy, exercise your rights and VOTE FOR ME!

We have gone where we are appreciated

There are alot of animated movies about animals out at the moment (or about to come out) Barnyard, Flushed Away, Ratatouille, Happy Feet, Surfs Up, (to name a few) and I am thinking:-

1. Why are monkey's so under represented? Apart from Curious George, there are no monkey moveis.
2. Leaf would make a brilliant animated movie, why isn't it being snapped up?

The world is blind. My genius is wasted on humans. That is why we have all left to go somewhere we will be appreciated. Don't try to find us, but remember to vote for me in December.

Life is not fair

Iseult wouldn't let me write today. She hogged the laptop all to herself, and Valerie hogged the desktop all day.

I didn't get any writing done.

Wish I had stayed in Blackrock.

Dublin Write-In

As you may have noticed, my word count for Mango, the Unlucky Monkey has not really risen all that much in the last week. I blame Iseult for hogging the lap top, despite booking user time on it. She says I have writers block (as if!) and should just get on with it! The cheek! She thinks I am worried I can't write another book as good as Leaf and that I am afraid to write Mango because everyone will laugh at me and point their fingers. I think this is a delusional fantasy of Iseult's. If anything, I am afraid that Mango will be SO GOOD the world isn't ready for it yet.

Anyway, agreed to go to Dublin with Iseult and Janna to do some writing. Iseult says she isn't bringing me home until I've reached the word count I should have by this time (whatever that is). She says I am letting the region down by not writing and making her look bad as ML (as if I cared about that!)

I've taken Miss Monkey with me for moral support.

NaNoWriMo Meeting

I went along to the NaNoWriMo meeting in the DKIT last night. I felt a little shy because there were no other monkeys there and I didn't know all the people, but they all loved me, of course, and thought my novel sounded wonderful and wanted to hear excerpts from it. Inkpot very cruelly said I was lying about my age (as if!) and some other person, can't remember her name (I think it was Despot, or Polpot, or something like that) made a horrible suggestion about my book, saying Rainbow should become Mayor and Leaf run off with Mango and have adventures. I thought it was very disrespectful. I am not going to do that, and I don't want anyone sueing me for not using or using their ideas. I am involved in enough litigations suits as it is.

However, the meeting helped me realise my word count is quite far behind. It was nice of me to let them get ahead this week, because I wouldn't want to discourage people, but it is time I started to do some real writing. I might get up to 20,000 words by the end of the day (I might not feel like it) you never know. Watch this space.

How do you solve a problem like a sequel?

Writing Mango is proving hard than I anticipated. Now, I know that writing is easy, but I haven't done any for a couple of months and I am out of practice. Also, it is harder to write a sequel - having to reintroduce characters and give backstory and such - than it is to write an original novel. Being reduced to a monkey-cle doesn't help either.

Oh well, on to bigger and hopefully warmer things tomorrow.

Baby, it's cold in here!

Borrowing Iseult's ( or Pudgy White Fingers, as I sometimes call her) laptop for writing and her den is absolutely freezing! I am a monkey, I am used to (and expect) a warm climate. I must insist that she either gets a heater into this place or moves the laptop downstairs where I can write in the relative warmth, like a civilised person. How can I tap into my muse when my paws - and, more importantly, my massive brain - are frozen? Darn Irish weather, wish I was in New Zealand.

Mango: The Unlucky Monkey

An unlucky start for Mango. First Iseult didn't relinquish the laptop on time (and she had promised) and then the nanowrimo site was running slow and then there were a myriad other distractions, so didn't get as much done as I wanted and it didn't go as well as I had hoped.

Will make up for it at the weekend.

Note to self - change Iseult's diary so that I get the earlier slot in the afternoon. Let her give up her evenings to writing.

Feast of All Saints (or All Hallows)

A wonderful feast day in the Church's calendar.

Also the day that National Novel Writing Starts.

I had my slot booked in to use the laptop from 6 - 8 (need to use the laptop so I can access the net and update my word count and, of course, my blog) but Iseult got delayed (can't keep to a deadline for ANYTHING, that girl) and I am only starting writing now. I still want to be finished by 8, so I will have to type fast.

Can be done.