The writers retreat
10/07/2012
I am hoping for a good run on my novel next week when the kids go back to school. Wish me luck!!
Hey, did you know that it’s now TWO YEARS since I first started posting comics online? I have now amassed more than 600 pages of comics. I am compiling them into books – 2010, 2011 and 2012. If you would like to win a copy of the 2010 and 2011 collected comics, please leave a comment in the speech bubble below and I will randomly select someone on Wednesday next week. You don’t have to say much – hi will suffice!
Also, sorry about the chopping and changing of themes. I hated my last one but I’m still trying to figure out the optimum combination of picture width and pleasant fonts. I really need to figure out web coding again…
LET ME BE FRANK 
I would dearly love to win/purchase a collection of your comics. 600 pages? that’s outrageous…how do you find the time?
Ooooh now that’s one competition worth entering. Fadabulous, & congratulations. Like an overly forward bridesmaid, imagining myself jumping high to win your comics. Best. Bouquet. Ever!
I just started following your blog and Twitter a few months ago, it’s lovely to hear a Kiwi voice while I’m overseas and struggling with writing my own comics. Good luck with the novel!
I’m in – your comics are so wonderously bleak – so funny – so cheering – so great for procrastinating. I can see my email on the top of the stack – screaming ‘pick me pick me’ – oh right emails can’t do that
So anyway if I don’t win can I buy them anywhere?
Thanks, Susan! I’m toying with the idea of trying some fundraising so I can afford a larger print run, but I’m printing a small run this time round so I’m sure there will be comics to buy if you don’t win.
Oh I so love your stories. I was just anticipating early in the comic that you would get the kids’ sickness on your retreat… so sorry you did but I know that’s the way these things go! We’re having the most boring-est school holidays ever as the flu works its way through us all.
I’d love to win a collection of your comics. Please count me in!
I’m not a big reader of comics and yet I keep returning to yours again and again. Thank you for sharing your writer’s life. It’s different from my struggles with writing… and yet strangely so much the same.
another brilliant one- i’m sorry you were sick on your retreat. still, it must have been good to have a change of scene. i’m very excited about the possibility of you printing up your comics!
I was about to ask you if you were going to print your comics in a book as I love them, and you’ve answered the question here, so yay! If I don’t win, I would love to buy my own copy! I’m off to Samoa (11-18 July) so if I do win (wishful, positive thinking here!), that’s why I’m not replying with excited glee!
Me!
Love it.
As a New Zealander living abroad, and a cartoonist who finds that too often I end up drawing things which say very little, I always look forward to reading your blog and wonderful cartoons. I look forward to many more years of great work from you.
I love your comics, a book of them, many books of them, would be FAB!
oh pick me!
I’ve loved following your life in pictures the last couple of years. What a great idea to compile them into a book.
Ha ha! Writing retreat disasters FTW! (and yes, put me in the draw!)
Pick me!
Please!
Hi. Some of us losers will part with ready money. Details, please.
Ooh, please put me in the draw if it isn’t already drawn 🙂
So sorry your novel succumbed to the chunder but I’m glad you found time to write a comic about it!
Loved the “this is seminal” bit!
Oooh, me, me!
Love reading your comics–and relate. (Recently went on a writing retreat. I didn’t hurl, but I did end up watching movies and sleeping. Maybe there needs to be a retreat before the retreat…)
I saw you last night Sarah at the Orcon Great Blend. You have a new fan!
The first part of this comic sounded like my dream weekend – lots of cheese, wine, no children, Dirty Dancing (note caps), trashy mags – so sorry to hear it went awry. And – although I don’t want to disturb you from the novel, is there going to be another episode of Clueless? Pleeeeeease?
Hi. And thanks for the link to “Two Girls In a Boat” — really liked it.
Hi Sarah. Love your work. On paper would be even better!
Hi Sarah, you bring sunshine into my life with every one oif your cartoons. Many thanks,
Bookman Beattie
Bugger, I have only just discovered this. Oh well, maybe next time – it would be like winning Lotto.