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Monday Mini Update!

Hey everyone,

I am SO, SO busy it's not even funny! I want to give apologies in advance for not keeping up with blogs this week - and ditto for replying to comments. I will do my best but I have a bunch of work on and I'm going away at the weekend so I need to cram everything in as fast as I can!

Since I'm so busy I have had to drop out of NaNo. :( However, I am still working on Game On Book 3, just not as intensely as I would have if I'd been able to keep up with NaNo.

I did my Andrew McNaughton tribute post on Friday, but I do have one more update for you. Nick Wilford emailed me over the weekend and asked me to send on his thanks to every single one of you for all you've done for him and his family over the past week. Between us, we managed to collect £462 for Andrew's charity, and a bunch of you joined in with the funeral celebrations which allowed me to create this video. I would love, if you haven't seen it already, for you to take a look and share it with friends and family to help Andrew's memory live on.

Comments

  1. Dana18 November 2013 at 14:36

    The video is beautiful, Kyra. Prayers for Andrew's family.

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  2. Alex J. Cavanaugh18 November 2013 at 15:45

    Kyra, that was so awesome of you to organize everything and create the video.

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  3. Suzanne Furness18 November 2013 at 17:09

    It was a lovely tribute and that is an amazing amount of money to collect. Keeping the family in my thoughts.

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  4. Rachel Schieffelbein18 November 2013 at 19:50

    Very lovely tribute. Thank you for organizing all of this, Kyra.

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  5. Annalisa Crawford18 November 2013 at 21:19

    I am so impressed with the amount of money we raised. Well done for keeping everyone thinking about Andrew. I hope you're not too gutted about NaNo.

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  6. Sheena-kay Graham19 November 2013 at 03:27

    Good luck with all the work. So glad you helped Nick so much Kyra.

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  7. Christine Rains19 November 2013 at 23:57

    Wonderful video, and that's fantastic that you raised so much. :)

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  8. Nicki Elson20 November 2013 at 00:06

    Beautiful job Kyra - and in the midst of all your business. You deserve a super, wonderful, marvelous weekend getaway. Good luck making it through everything and THANK YOU for making it easy for us to give Andrew a tribute.

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  9. Gina Gao22 November 2013 at 05:18

    You did such a good job with the video. Nice work.

    www.modernworld4.blogspot.com

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