Rachel Caldecott

Rachel Caldecott · Jul 15, 2021

Idiot Children Part 2. Meanwhile, daughter travelling back to UK from France with bags and large dog will be dropped in Wembley, but needs to get a train from Euston to Carlisle. "Don't worry Mum, I can walk it - its only 3 hours. I can't afford a taxi." See what I mean? They are both idiots.

Rachel Caldecott · Jul 15, 2021

Increasingly convinced my kids are idiots! My son, student in UK, supposedly moving out of his student house next week and going to the other end of the country, has been exposed to covid and is now feeling ill... he has no medicines at all in his house and claims he doesn't have enough money for food.

Rachel Caldecott · Jul 14, 2021

Just heard my son, who is in the middle of changing universities & towns, therefore vacating his student housing, and is due to attend his cousin's funeral next weekend, has been exposed to covid at his job. 10 days isolation will bugger all that up.

Rachel Caldecott · Jun 28, 2021

Will be posting something in the Workshops bit, because this morning I suddenly decided to go for that mentorship thingy the M. Milburn agency is running and the deadline is the day after tomorrow. I need fresh eyes quickly!

Rachel Caldecott · Jun 18, 2021

Thank you Short Story Hunters!!! Barbara, you did me proud! I am honoured to have been included in this podcast.

Rachel Caldecott · Jun 13, 2021

Sorry for missing the Huddle. I'd been working on the market in 38° C (shade) and fell asleep on the sofa when I got home. (And all for a measly 40€. I need to write a best seller!!)

Rachel Caldecott · May 29, 2021

I didn't do anything, but I've worked out that it appears at £20 for people looking at the UK amazon site from France. If you are elsewhere it seems fine. The third-party, BB Corps UK, selling my book at such a ridiculous price, is based in Lyon. So I remain confused but sent both Amazon and these interlopers stern emails.

Rachel Caldecott · May 29, 2021

In a panic! As you know I released my memoir the other day. On Amazon Uk site it should be at £9.50. Someone sent me a message (and I checked myself) it is being sold at £20 with delivery times of 2-3 weeks! What the hell is happening? And how the hell do I stop it?

Rachel Caldecott · May 28, 2021

Cool! Just heard my first story on Short Story Hunters. Quite a surreal experience. Barbara read it beautifully. I'm quite chuffed. Thank guys. I'm not used to the idea of people actually reading something I've written. My own family never read anything of mine.

Rachel Caldecott · May 17, 2021

I have to apologise for not regularly attending the huddles and pop-ups. Our house is open plan. My computer sits in the living room, a few feet from the TV and also the kitchen. If I join in a Litopia event it means that the whole household comes to a standstill. I'm also back to sharing my computer with my daughter which makes things doubly hard. But I'm with you all in spirit!

Rachel Caldecott · May 7, 2021

I need help with formatting & pagination of the interior of my book. I thought I'd sorted it, but hadn't. Any ideas, volunteers, or suggestions of someone on Fiverr?

Rachel Caldecott · May 4, 2021

Aghghggha! Trying to format my word doc to create a paperback version of Blown. But my computer is in French and is running a different generation of programme to all the instructions I have in English. It might be time for a cup of tea.

Steve C · May 2, 2021

Well done Rachel. Just bought a copy. You can post it 'The Marketplace' on Litopia. Click the 'Forums' tab at the top of this page and scroll to the bottom. you will see it there. Also post a clean link to the book anywhere you can. By clean I mean
Amazon product ASIN B093WPQK5Q
(Amazon product ASIN B093WPQK5Q)

Rachel Caldecott · May 1, 2021

I'm I allowed to get excited? I just published my book today. Where can I post it here to brag about it? Because my husband is asleep on the sofa and I'm feeling a little disappointed. The fanfare didn't show up.

Rachel Caldecott · Apr 30, 2021

Somehow Amazon has published a version of my book yesterday, that I uploaded on KDP today? I'm completely confused and horrified.

Rachel Caldecott · Apr 21, 2021

It is RK Capp's birthday today! Sending her huge hugs!

Rachel Caldecott · Apr 19, 2021

Got my daughter and granddog back today. I am beyond happy.

Rachel Caldecott · Apr 18, 2021

I checked my account the other day. I had received $5.60 in royalties. My bank charged me 5.00€ to process them. So I actually earned 0.39 cents! YAY!

Rachel Caldecott · Apr 14, 2021

Defintely building up material for a kick ass memoir. My daughter's problems, my son involved with a girl who self harms because she was abused by her step father, and now my brother has a weird flesh eating fungus caught when his wrist was impaled by a 7cm long African acacia thorn. Bring it on Universe I'm taking notes!

Rachel Caldecott · Apr 9, 2021

Can't think about anything else except my lovely daughter. Not only is she suffering her first real heartbreak, but is having a biopsy right now in a UK hospital while I'm far away, locked down in France. Life sucks right now.

Rachel Caldecott · Mar 15, 2021

We were all excited about being given dates for our Astra Zenica jabs... but the French have suspended them for at least 24 hours. So who knows if we will be 'done' or not. Sigh. As the threat of more lockdowns increase, the chances of me seeing my two depressed kids in the UK is looking less and less likely. Damn it!

Rachel Caldecott · Mar 2, 2021

As I prepare to launch my latest book, I have been scratching my head at some of the PR stuff Indie authors should do. For example: 'They' (Mailchimp) effectively want me to create a mailing list in order to ask people to join my mailing list.

Rachel Caldecott · Feb 27, 2021

As I venture more into the world of Twitter, I find ever new and 'interesting' inhabitants. Like the man who told me on his profile he is "following Jesus", and the woman who announced on hers, "I am sexy ladys".

Rachel Caldecott · Feb 26, 2021

Someone has been very nice to me today, so I'm very grateful and happy... the sun has come out!

Rachel Caldecott · Feb 14, 2021

Just arranged for my book, The Panopticon Experiment to be sent to a blogger. She asked for it back in November, but Amazon KDP hasn't been cooperating. But... I just discovered she is a Trump supporter, so I can almost guarantee she won't like my story.

Steve C · Jan 8, 2021

Regarding your daughter's position, the lesson for her is that business is business, not that some books are rubbish. Her illustrations can still shine. Lots of books on Amazon are crap and that encourages me. If I can be better than the crap I might sell a few books.

Rachel Caldecott · Jan 7, 2021

On the other hand my son has a week to find assorted theatre people to talk about the state of live theatre under covid restrictions. He's getting a lot of responses. Plus I've been invited to submit a 5000 word chapter in a joint book about people giving up their homes and moving abroad.

Rachel Caldecott · Jan 6, 2021

My poor daughter has just learned an important lesson. She has been commissioned to illustrate her first children's book. She signed the contract and received the first installment of money... BEFORE being sent the text. She agreed to do it purely because of the interesting concept. Sadly, it is terrible! No wonder it was turned down and the author is now trying to self-publish.

Rachel Caldecott · Nov 10, 2020

Don't you just hate it when you ask a specialist publisher if you can send your whole m/s, they say yes, but reject you with a standard rejection letter after clearly not having read past the chapter headings (the give away was when they added, "All my team agreed they would be very interested to read your whole story, and I'm sure many others will, too.") Seriously I expected better from a small press.

Rachel Caldecott · Nov 2, 2020

So my rescheduled moment of fame happened. Sadly my brain and mouth were not connected at the time. https://soundcloud.com/.../sunday-1st-november-sunday...
I was 3rd person interviewed 55:43-1:00:55 (and sounded like a posh twit)