The lovely people at the Review Island website have been kind enough to give my novel, "The Hit List" a 3 Palm Tree (out of 4) rating and have also likened my anti-hero, Jamie Chadwick to Patricia Highsmith's Mr Ripley!! (Not sure what the great P.H. might think though ...!)

Click onto http://sallyquilford.tripod.com/reviewisland to see what they have to say about it!

I'm definitely most chuffed!

Best wishes

Anne
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Well done, Anne. How are sales going? Are you thinking of submitting to agents and publishers now? We've seen examples of success stories this way round in non-fiction, I wonder if the same would be true for fiction.

Whatever the case, I wish you luck
Elspeth

Thanks, Elspeth! Sales are going pretty much as I expected - I've sold just over 80, and I anticipate being able to sell about 100, which I'll be happy with, to be honest. It won't make me any money but, by heck, it's fun and I'm learning a lot! - which I hope will stand me in good stead next year when I'm hoping to set up my own small imprint, under which I can produce more novels, poetry etc. It's a learning curve!

And no, I don't anticipate sending The Hit List out to commercial publishers/agents - it's already been round the houses and back in many early draft forms before finally "hitting" (sorry!) its present format (query? did I perhaps send it out too early??...) - and in any case, I'm now doing novel number 4, with number 2 being out with Saqi Books for consideration and number 3 being with those wonderful people, The Literary Consultancy, for advice/guidance. Hmm, onward and upward, as they say!

Much love

A
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Well done for the sales - I'm sure you'll hit your target - your positive energy flies off the screen!
Elspeth

Anne

Congrats, and I wish you all the best with it. It must give you a buzz.

Well played!

Dave

Dear Dave - many thanks! I was quite buzzy this morning, but have come down to normal now after struggling with a short story that's not doing what I wanted it to do - if only I could remember what that was in the first place - doh!!!

Much love

A
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Well done, Anne. Your reviewer's right - Jamie Chadwick does have a touch of the Ripleys about him! Good review too.

Dear Nell - many thanks! I think these days you can get "a touch of the Ripleys" seen to on the National Health, can't you?!!!

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LoL

A
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