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by Earl du Porter

Posted on February 13, 2023 09:49 AM

For the next week, Allie was productive in a way that she had never thought possible. The meeting had ended with an agreement that she would focus on the characters of Leila and Duke, getting their basic features in place, before attempting to locate them in particular backgrounds or...

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by Earl du Porter

Posted on February 13, 2023 09:44 AM

They have tried their best, but they look really out of place! There’s me, today sporting a faded denim look! I know it doesn’t really suit me, but this is my place, and I can wear what I want. I’m certainly not going overboard on the smartness today. I want...

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by Earl du Porter

Posted on February 13, 2023 09:36 AM

So we’re ready with some of the proposals for the new editions. I’ve done a little re-writing here and there, and added a new chapter to Leila. Allie has done some fabulous work. She’s an odd one. She keeps herself to herself. Often I can see the light burning...

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by Earl du Porter

Posted on February 13, 2023 09:32 AM

Allie spent the first week stripping her new office. She didn’t mind the beams and the wooden windows sloping up to the roof - she recognised those as a product of their time. Having pulled at the wallpaper and removed the curtains, she was left with grey-brown streaked walls...

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by Earl du Porter

Posted on February 13, 2023 09:28 AM

Allie pushed the drawing into the centre of the table, and returned the pencil to the pencil compartment in the fold of her satchel. ‘That’s amazing Allie! Welcome to our team!’ Allie hadn’t seen much of a team. Team? What team? He’s a...

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by Earl du Porter

Posted on February 13, 2023 09:10 AM

As it turned out, we only had one applicant. I felt really let down by the lack of interest and I spoke with a friend, who runs an accounting business locally and is used to the hiring process, about whether we should re-advertise to try to attract someone from the London creative scene....

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by Earl du Porter

Posted on February 13, 2023 09:08 AM

I interviewed yesterday. We are looking for a designer to help liven up some of the covers and chapter heading pages. Simple line drawings are good. I put together a short job ad and placed it in some local papers. I could have gone more national with it, but I don’t...

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by Earl du Porter

Posted on February 13, 2023 09:07 AM

The farmyard, dominated by a huge raised flower border in the centre, is open to fields on one side. My house takes up most of one of the other sides, and there are two small cottages on the western corner, with the stables behind them. I must get those done up some time! We’re...

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by Earl du Porter

Posted on February 13, 2023 09:03 AM

To cut a long story short, the book did pretty well! Yes, it was a real success. Phenomenal. In fact, soon after it was published it was quickly on the curriculum of what seemed like every school on the planet. And they all bought twenty or thirty copies! They said it was...

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by Earl du Porter

Posted on February 13, 2023 08:59 AM

—————————— TWO YEARS LATER —————————— So I’ve settled close to the little village of Berwick. Nothing much to it really. A satisfied English village with...

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