tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2892592229930113987.post370484402313551026..comments2023-07-07T06:16:42.934-07:00Comments on pencilnotes: The Flight of Birds – Very nice reviewAlan Gillilandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00782376909149809854noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2892592229930113987.post-85825812425087468692012-10-25T02:58:24.907-07:002012-10-25T02:58:24.907-07:00Re. previous. I thought, and I’m sure you’ll agree...Re. previous. I thought, and I’m sure you’ll agree, that two ‘insteads’ stand one in better stead than one.Alan Gillilandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00782376909149809854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2892592229930113987.post-3522726094204765562012-10-25T02:56:15.847-07:002012-10-25T02:56:15.847-07:00Afterthought: a kindly chap, who irritatingly does...Afterthought: a kindly chap, who irritatingly does that crossword in 11-28 mins (timed to second) and had just sold company of which SVP for $2.5bn, he was so taken by The Flight of Birds that he came to the London Book Fair to hear me speak at the Children’s publishing innovation centre, where I was due to premier my Curd the Lion appp. Let down by my Norwegian app developer I instead had to recount my creating a viable business model from scratch instead. Meeting me afterwards, he extremely generously offered me the small sum of £10,000 which I sadly had to decline as he wanted a royalty and I had just acquired an agent and felt it would compromise any possibly future selling of rights to a publisher. Now working (very slowly) on creating my own iBooks Author app for Curd.Alan Gillilandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00782376909149809854noreply@blogger.com