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As we all are, I'm an aspiring author. Forty-Something male whose first completed book is a piece of Fem-Fiction - Flirty Something (I hope you'll let me know what you think?).

Personally, I spent 15 years in the Royal Air Force before venturing out into the big, bad world to become an IT Technician and am still not certain I did the right thing?

I'm married to a very indulging and understanding wife. No kids but the 4 cats more than make up for that. 16 feet pattering around in the wee small hours gets the imagination going, I can tell you!

Please tell me if I do things wrong like add books to Watchlist etc, in the wrong way. Or do the Comments/reply to Messages wrong. I don't want to upset anyone. Thanks.

I am currently seeking agent representation, with the ultimate goal of seeing my completed novel become mainstream.

Agents, publishers, or anyone wishing to contact me: mickarn@yahoo.co.uk

BTW. I'll do my best to answer every comment. Please have patience with me if it takes a little while to respond. Same goes for returning backing.

9th July 2010 update: For some reason the 2nd chapter was missing, so this has now been uploaded and the book now makes sense - or rather I hope it will if you'll read it?

9th July 2010 (coda) A good friend/reviewer here suggested that I put in a little timeline-type heading for both the first chapters and this makes so much sense I don't know why I didn't spot it? So, hopefully have cleared up that huge mistake! Thanks Miranda.

13th July - A big thank you to all who have left me comments and messages. I would love to reply to you all, but arranging a funeral is taking up a lot of time at the moment. However, I am going to be making some changes/edits to the book shortly, base don the excellent feedback I have been given. Please forgive me for not responding to you all, but I shall try. mick

4th August - Going to stop with Friends here as fed up with trying to find relevant messages for me. I'll message those who added me with my email. Hope no-one takes this personally. Thanks

favourite books

The Christmas Incident - Annie Sanders
Artemis Fowl series - Eoin Colfer
Harry Potter series - J K Rowling
Fairytale of New York - Miranda Dickinson
His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman
Anything by Terry Pratchett

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Flirty Something

Mick Arnold

A love triangle of cats, mismatched strangers and plenty of surprises! With scheming aplenty who ends up with who? Or for that matter, what?


Louise had loved Adam since they had literally first ran into each other at school. As old friends do, they had lapsed into sporadic contact until one night, there was “that” message waiting for her on the answer phone.

Over late night drinks, Louise and her best friend Andrea hatched a plan to get him back into her life. But the best-laid plans are often strewn with good intentions but rarely work out the way you want them to.

What will happen when Andrea confronts a situation that will change the direction her life had been going in?

Can Adam handle the rapidly altering emotional circumstances in his life?

Will Louise get what she thinks her heart needs, or what her head decides she should have?

Who would have thought that one phone call could change so many people’s lives in such a short time?

 

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I wrote 541 days ago

Hi Chipper, I feel this story has potential but you need to read what you're writing out loud. The dialogue is stilted and unrealistic, the sentences seem short and the punctuation needs looking at. Sorry if this isn't what you're used to or was expecting, but I prefer to give an honest opinion a... view book

I wrote 548 days ago

Hi Elizabeth, Many thanks for the comments/review. Hopefully will be better after the new edit I want to do. Mick view book

I wrote 549 days ago

A polished novel that though not normally my cup of tea, the subject not the writing of course, will now find it's place onto my Watchlist and will be Backed too. Now I need the day to run to over 24 hours so I can enjoy studying Glory's story (no pun intended). Mick Flirty Something view book

I wrote 549 days ago

A very detailed, vivid account of growing up in a time gone by. Only read the first two chapters so far, but am starting to grow very attached to young Juan. A very likable character which is what I was hoping to find after having read the synopsis. Backed Mick Flirty Something view book

I wrote 552 days ago

Couldn't resist the pitch - Freel and Streel. Maybe too much of what was going to happen in the book was given away in the pitch, but who I am to pick as plenty of people have read The Freel of Streel. I'm going to take my time over reading other than the first chapter, but that has been enough, ... view book

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