Tag: Forty-Two Places
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The Map is HERE!
My single early copy of the map is here…But I can’t open it. While I was writing an update for Forty-Two Places Fans about the map…IT ARRIVED! The UPS driver just walked up and dropped it off as if it was a normal package and not the culmination of years of work and worry. The…
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Bye, St. Pancras(es)!
More locations that didn’t make the final cut into the 42 places on the Douglas Adams’ London illustrated map from Herb Lester Associates.
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Congratulations Faces
Friends have started sending me snaps of their congratulations faces upon hearing that Douglas Adams’ London hit #1 in the niche category of Hot New Releases in London England Travel Books on Amazon.com.
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Literary Tourism Alert
In 2015, I took David’s extended tour. We not only walked to the in-town Cambridge sights but as there was only me, he generously drove me out to Buntingford. I got to experience the beautiful Cambridgeshire countryside, plus see both Arthur Dent’s House and the Pub from the 2005 Movie.
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Bye, Ricky
“Bye, Ricky!” is a farewell to another location cut from Douglas Adams’ London literary tourism map forthcoming from Herb Lester Associates.
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Bye, Heathrow!
The painful crux of being an untried, unknown, unpublished writer, is that it is hard to get (and harder to trust) feedback. You have to let your words go out into the world without caring who will find them trite and who will find them terrific.
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Poppy Led Me To Pontoon:
The Spiteri brothers serve the foods they dreamed of in the space that made the Hitchhiker’s movie dream come true.
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Total Opulence Overwhelm
If you go to Harrods, leave yourself plenty of time to escape. Almost being late for your high tea appointment because you can’t find an exit from the gift shop may be the quintessential privileged problem, but the reality is that it is all too easy to cross the line from fun to overwhelm and…
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Yvette’s Eastercon 2022 Part 2: Achievements Unlocked!
Part Two is about achievements unlocked, including getting home with only a single whasset.
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Submission
I am back from the UK. Submission in two days. The end of the “??? draft” is nigh. This sort of comment from my Beta Readers (my Angels!) is what is keeping me going…and going…in the wee hours of the early morning: “A+! Though I’ve never read a single literary guide before, and will probably…