AgentPete

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  AgentPete

• Apr 27, 2024

Decayed alien mural in Warminster car park. Alien, left, literary agent, right.
I read a book about Warminster’s space visitors, “The Warminster Mystery” when I was ten. That’s what propelled us here 18 months ago: childhood curiosity.
I found no trace of aliens.
Just as well.
Instead, I found a mystical landscape as wild and unsettling as anything Lovecraft could conjecture.
And people whose wit, kindness and generosity is as boundless as space itself.
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  AgentPete

• Apr 25, 2024

Warminster's Mors Janua Vitae, Death the Door to Life. A Christian message of hope, or possibly a whisper of something far older. The ancient ones are never far away in fierce, perplexing, bawdy and bewitching Wiltshire.

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  AgentPete

• Apr 25, 2024

I never knew what these spring wreaths really meant, nor would I necessarily have been told: at least, not told the truth, whatever that is.

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  AgentPete

• Apr 25, 2024

There is an earthy, pagan quality about Wiltshire that was wholly unexpected, disturbing, atavistic. This is the land that gave birth to crop circles, had Britain's own Roswell in Warminster. Where deception and the profound are easy bedfellows. They are moonrakers here, one and all.

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  AgentPete

• Apr 25, 2024

And back to Warminster one more time today, pre-dawn start. Need that espresso!

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  AgentPete

• Apr 25, 2024

Yesterday was Fish Transport Day, a Colony of 30 Golden Ancistrus some 25 years old. Pleased to say all now happy in Hastings, no casualties.

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  AgentPete

• Apr 23, 2024

Just a few more days of chaos, but expecting to be back at this week’s Huddle on Saturday! Focus at the moment is on closing down things in Warminster, will be doing two return trips there from Hastings before the weekend… and kipping on the floor in a sleeping bag! Roll on Saturday.

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  AgentPete

• Apr 19, 2024

Same boxes, different place Apparently I'm an undiagnosed pack-rat...

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  AgentPete

• Apr 18, 2024

It begins...

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  AgentPete

• Apr 17, 2024

Exhausting day, and two more coming up, but here's a summary so far.
Completed the purchase yesterday. Traveled down to Hastings for electricity and gas visits this morning. Both need a lot more work than expected, ouch.
But no complaints from me. The place has bags of character. Very warm vibes.
The best news so far is that the internet gear was ready waiting for me to hook up and it worked flawlessly. Disaster scenario would have involved getting BT to send engineers, literally taking weeks until everything working properly. But that's avoided. Next step will be this weekend when the rest of the network stuff, computers etc are here and hopefully reassembled. For the moment just getting by with my cellphone.
Getting back very late tonight to Warminster for an early load-up tomorrow...

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  AgentPete

• Apr 16, 2024

Just completed on the house

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  AgentPete

• Apr 13, 2024

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  AgentPete

• Apr 7, 2024

Back from coffee this morning to find this guest sitting outside the door. Very tame. But what is it…?

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  AgentPete

• Mar 30, 2024

Me and my therapist, Oscar.
I think he’s actually Lurcher x Collie.

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  AgentPete

• Mar 30, 2024

Going to say goodbye to pub dog Oscar the Lurcher today, in advance of our move from Wiltshire. I will miss him like mad. He could be a licensed therapist, he’s that caring and empathic.

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  AgentPete

• Mar 13, 2024

Have just exchanged contracts on new home. After 16 months searching, it’s hard to believe. Hasn’t sunk in yet.

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  AgentPete

• Feb 5, 2024

Updates done, all seems OK, but let us know if something isn't working as expected.

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  AgentPete

• Feb 5, 2024

Lots of updates happening over next few hours, some possible downtime.

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  AgentPete

• Jan 21, 2024

This sort of evening in Wiltshire... Electricity is flickering...

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  AgentPete

• Jan 6, 2024

I’ve been invited to play Skittles! Very excited! It’s huge in Wiltshire, but a bit underground. As played for 1000 years, the game that spawned 10-pin bowling (but with nine). I have no idea how to play...

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  AgentPete

• Jan 5, 2024

Will be talking about “plagiarism” and celeb autobiogs / ghost writing in tomorrow's Huddle, plus whatever work in progress you want to bring along. Reminder, it’s strictly non-quotable, we take that very seriously, full rules here.

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  AgentPete

• Jan 5, 2024

Suddenly getting snowed under with manuscript submissions, presumably everyone’s been writing like crazy over the break. Thoughts…

• Almost everyone ignores submission guidelines on the website, some even paste their whole ms into the contact form, just horrible. Toughening up that form right now to stop this.
• Most subs are for 100,000+ word mss, of which 99% or more will be seriously flawed. The best advice I can give these folk is to start coming to Huddles. I do suggest this sometimes, to those projects that seem to have some potential. The response is always no, and quite often offence is taken. But all of them would happily work with me one-on-one. I would need 2400 hours per day!
• As an agent I’m not here to indulge folks’ writing fantasies, I’m here to make money for both parties. Reflect that commercial reality in your sub and you'll succeed.

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  AgentPete

• Dec 18, 2023

Server back up again.

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  AgentPete

• Dec 18, 2023

Server going down for a reboot...

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  AgentPete

• Dec 12, 2023

So much sickness going round (Bloo…?) at the moment, chills vomiting etc. Too much close contact with my fellow humans on tube trains, I think. Back to bed for a bit.

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  AgentPete

• Nov 30, 2023

A friend of mine wants to get his book onto Amazon from a Word doc… it’s a simple process, but he’d like someone to do it for him… anyone care to assist? Modest fee involved.

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  AgentPete

• Nov 20, 2023

I so dislike pompous people who put the phone down when they’ve finished talking at you. Just sayin’.

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  AgentPete

• Nov 15, 2023

I omitted to upload an instructional document to the Writing Lab… “How To Receive A Critique”. It’s pretty important, and it’s there now.

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  AgentPete

• Nov 11, 2023

What a classic Huddle tonight! Great energy, good humor, fabulous company. Thank you, everyone!

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  AgentPete

• Oct 30, 2023

Yesterday’s Pop-Ups was unwatchable for some members, sadly… but NOT our fault! YouTube had a serious buffering problem that affected lots of live streams. I think the recording as posted is now OK, but let me know if you find issues with it pls.