tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670312900906521792011-10-01T07:04:48.114-07:00GloryJunior Fiction from Fifi ColstonFlorence Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01437821366974837083noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3167031290090652179.post-14345530061787466252010-06-01T03:40:00.000-07:002010-06-01T03:40:34.972-07:00More Glory!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RkUstSKTYFA/TATjPpdgtsI/AAAAAAAAAC0/smjLXXC360o/s1600/me+flo+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RkUstSKTYFA/TATjPpdgtsI/AAAAAAAAAC0/smjLXXC360o/s320/me+flo+copy.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We are ecstatic that 'Glory' has been shortlisted for the Esther Glen Award in </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the </span><a href="http://lianza.org.nz/news/2010/jun/1/prestigious-children%E2%80%99s-book-awards-finalists-2010" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">LIANZA</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Prestigious Children's Book Awards for 2010. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Many thanks to the judges- you have made our year!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: magenta;">love Florence & Fifi xxx </span></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3167031290090652179-1434553006178746625?l=florencebright.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Florence Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01437821366974837083noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3167031290090652179.post-48697896629910952102010-03-26T20:01:00.000-07:002010-03-28T22:46:35.489-07:00Nice one!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RkUstSKTYFA/SoM5JVqa87I/AAAAAAAAABE/ZvqFDvu13QM/s1600-h/Badge%20of%20Glory.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RkUstSKTYFA/SoM5JVqa87I/AAAAAAAAABE/ZvqFDvu13QM/s320/Badge%20of%20Glory.jpg" width="277" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Well, of all the things... Fifi and I made it into </div><div style="text-align: center;">the <a href="http://www.storylines.org.nz/Awards/Notable+Books+List/2010.html#Junior_Fiction">Storylines Notable Book</a> list.</div><div style="text-align: center;">So we have got a bit of Glory after all! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3167031290090652179-4869789662991095210?l=florencebright.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Florence Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01437821366974837083noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3167031290090652179.post-85147295803134963502009-11-23T19:43:00.000-08:002009-11-23T19:44:49.253-08:00What happened to my bike?<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RkUstSKTYFA/SwtVSgwhzHI/AAAAAAAAAB4/aniDrsXOucc/s1600/7+Flo+think+copy.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407509554107894898" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RkUstSKTYFA/SwtVSgwhzHI/AAAAAAAAAB4/aniDrsXOucc/s400/7+Flo+think+copy.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 303px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: small;">Some of you are wondering what happened to my bike in 'Glory'. I know of course, but I'd like to hear from you as to what you think might happen to a bike in Oamaru when it is abandoned by a gate.</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: small;">I have free Glory badges to send to the first ten readers with a signed card from Fifi, my author. So get thinking and get writing to <a href="mailto:florence.bright@gmail.com">me here</a>.</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: small;"> Include your name and address so I can write back to you! </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3167031290090652179-8514729580313496350?l=florencebright.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Florence Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01437821366974837083noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3167031290090652179.post-21177558267278833732009-09-30T23:10:00.000-07:002009-10-02T03:21:24.456-07:00John McIntyre's review of Glory<object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-b34c93715d727c4f" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v15.nonxt8.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3Db34c93715d727c4f%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331471244%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D1E7432BA74E9843E40608F9E7C4BA2336ACC19FE.27F572D55D3BDA9EBAA80E5B2A08000FD1156D4B%26key%3Dck1&iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Db34c93715d727c4f%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DZU9zGNawFsk-BeKk3wK2k6sNzmY&autoplay=0&ps=blogger"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v15.nonxt8.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3Db34c93715d727c4f%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1331471244%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D1E7432BA74E9843E40608F9E7C4BA2336ACC19FE.27F572D55D3BDA9EBAA80E5B2A08000FD1156D4B%26key%3Dck1&iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Db34c93715d727c4f%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DZU9zGNawFsk-BeKk3wK2k6sNzmY&autoplay=0&ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3167031290090652179-2117755826727883373?l=florencebright.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Florence Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01437821366974837083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3167031290090652179.post-59635766605286927802009-07-27T19:54:00.000-07:002009-07-27T20:03:49.304-07:00Well Glory be!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Awesome! 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<br /><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CFIFICO%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-NZ;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; font-family: trebuchet ms;">The brilliant thing about a blog is that it can be from anyone, anywhere in the world so I can say anything I like and it will never get tracked back to me. Even so, I think it is better to change names and places just in case, so from now on, Emma will be known as the ‘Princess’, Natasha the ‘Unicorn’ (on account of her love of horses) and Jake the 'Playboy’ because of his addiction to PlayStation. Andrea, of course, is ‘Queen Kong’, which celebrates her gorillaness and nods to her being female. Thomas has unexpectedly cropped up in my plans. He can be the 'Jellyfish’, which marries together his black lolly laxatives and swimming abilities in a spineless sort of way.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; font-family: trebuchet ms;">
<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I'm pretty pleased with the little icons I've made for their names. I think they represent the unwitting players in my game quite well don't you?</span>
<br /><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-NZ"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-NZ"><span style=""> </span></span><span style=";font-family:";" lang="EN-NZ"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3167031290090652179-784645571350939899?l=florencebright.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Florence Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01437821366974837083noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3167031290090652179.post-56156331608440002009-04-28T17:30:00.000-07:002009-08-20T20:52:48.900-07:00Coming Soon!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RkUstSKTYFA/SfegS_CMmYI/AAAAAAAAAAM/tJ1xDZrBzUs/s1600-h/Glory+e-mail+cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RkUstSKTYFA/SfegS_CMmYI/AAAAAAAAAAM/tJ1xDZrBzUs/s400/Glory+e-mail+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329904932035008898" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Why should Emma Harrison get all the prizes and the major roles Couldn’t they just share them around a bit so that Natasha could dance her heart out and I could prove to Mum just for once that I was clever after all?</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">And then suddenly I had the answer. It was simple.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">“Let’s do her in,” I said.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(102, 0, 204);font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Released August 2009!<br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3167031290090652179-5615633160844000?l=florencebright.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Florence Brighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01437821366974837083noreply@blogger.com0