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  • jackit
    jackit Posts: 42 Forumite
    Hi FMN Congratulations on finishing the book and good luck with the Agents. Hope all goes well with the job applications too - will keep my fingers crossed for you.

    x
  • Verbatim
    Verbatim Posts: 4,831 Forumite
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    lovely to hear from you, thanks for updating.

    Hope the agent appreciates your book.

    V
    CCs @0% £24k Dec 05 £19,621.41 Au £13400 S 12600 Oct £11,981 £9481 £7500 Nov £7250 D £7100 Jan 6950 F £5800 Mar£5400 May £4830 June £4660 July £4460 Aug £3200, S £900, £0 18/9/07 DFW Nerd 042
  • GeorgeUK
    GeorgeUK Posts: 7,737 Forumite
    Glad to hear things are still progressing FMN - hope the book gets more rave reviews from the agents too.

    Good luck and warm fuzzy feelings being sent your way.
    After falling off the gambling wagon (twice): £33,600 (24,000+ 9,600) - Original CC Debt: £7,885.91

    Dad Gift 6k ¦ Savings & Inv Tst: £2,500
    Loan 10k: £0 ¦ Dad 5.5k: £2,270 ¦ LTSB: £0 ¦ RBS: £0 ¦ Virgin £0 ¦ Egg £0

    Total Owed: £2,270 (+6k) 11/08/2011
  • miggy
    miggy Posts: 4,328 Forumite
    It's good to hear you're okay :)
    It can't be all that easy for your daughter it's great that she's facing the situation with you rather than fighting you over it. You've raised a wise girl!She will also value the money she earns all the more because of it.
    All the very best with your book and with job hunting! You are a very 'readable' writer, from what I've seem here, and I can well imagine your book is going to be 'unputdownable'. Be sure to let us know how everything goes!
    Miggy

    MEMBER OF MIKE'S MOB!
    Every Penny a Prisoner

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  • lucielle
    lucielle Posts: 11,645 Forumite
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    Lovely to hear from you. Good luck for your jobs I have applied for one as well, so will be thinking of you.
    L
    Total Debt Dec 07 £59875.83 Overdrafts £2900,New Debt Figure ZERO !!!!!!:j 08/06/2013
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  • Forgetmenot68
    Forgetmenot68 Posts: 325 Forumite
    Hello

    Jobs applied for today, and final readings of manuscript by close friends and family to make sure I haven't upset anyone/got my facts right. Thank you for the nice thing you said about my writing miggy and for everyone's good luck wishes xx. Will be sending it off very soon.... _pale_

    lucielle, good luck with the job too...

    FMN xx
    LBM 16/06/08 - Credit card debts June '08 [STRIKE]£49,145 [/STRIKE].... Feb '13 balance £38,478 ... We'll get there :o
  • lucielle
    lucielle Posts: 11,645 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    You'll be fine!!!!
    L
    Total Debt Dec 07 £59875.83 Overdrafts £2900,New Debt Figure ZERO !!!!!!:j 08/06/2013
    Lucielle's Daring Debt Free Journey
    DFD Before we Die!!!! Long Haul Supporter #124
  • miggy
    miggy Posts: 4,328 Forumite
    When will the MS go to an agent, FMN?
    Miggy

    MEMBER OF MIKE'S MOB!
    Every Penny a Prisoner

    This article is about coffeehouse bartenders. For lawyers, see Barrister. (Wikipedia)
  • Forgetmenot68
    Forgetmenot68 Posts: 325 Forumite
    45 minutes ago....! I am an emotional wreck, but my (very successful) novelist friend was lovely about my MS and talked to her agent about it - and he said he was really keen to read it.....! So I tidied it up, printed it off and sent it this morning. The agent is quite a big deal in publishing, so fingers crossed... at the very worst he will let me know how I can improve it, or suggest who else may be interested... I'm so excited!! :D But now the waiting begins... my friend recommended a mild alcoholic haze to make the time pass more easily...!

    FMN xx
    LBM 16/06/08 - Credit card debts June '08 [STRIKE]£49,145 [/STRIKE].... Feb '13 balance £38,478 ... We'll get there :o
  • GeorgeUK
    GeorgeUK Posts: 7,737 Forumite
    With all that nervous energy surely you should be doing some daily clicks or something - before the haze begins :D

    Good luck. Hope to hear lots of good things later (any idea how much later?)
    After falling off the gambling wagon (twice): £33,600 (24,000+ 9,600) - Original CC Debt: £7,885.91

    Dad Gift 6k ¦ Savings & Inv Tst: £2,500
    Loan 10k: £0 ¦ Dad 5.5k: £2,270 ¦ LTSB: £0 ¦ RBS: £0 ¦ Virgin £0 ¦ Egg £0

    Total Owed: £2,270 (+6k) 11/08/2011
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