Hope this link works. Based on encouragement I received on this site, submitted an article to a writers' magazine in Canada. Article is 'A Book Lover's Journey Around England'. When you get to the adobe site, just click on westwordarticle. Would be interested in your comments.
https://share.acrobat.com/adc/adc.do?app=org

rickmav - the link takes me to a page where Adobe wants me to sign in. Is there another way of looking at this?

Well done

Hi rosetravels. The link works for me when I just click on the blue part in the url above, but maybe it's because somehow the adobe site recognizes it's me. I tried copying the entire url and pasting it on the internet and it worked, too. Let me check with adobe and see if there is something else that can be done. Josser, thanks for the support. Were you able to get the site from the link above?

Asked me to sign in as well. Would love to read it.

Try signing in with my info. Email is: [email protected] and password is: stourhead. Let me know if that works.

It worked with your information. Thanks so much. That's a wonderful article and photos. Hurrah for you!!!

Darn - it doesn't work for me. when I enter you email and password, I get a window that asks "Existing Adobe ID Holder? You may need to update your Adobe ID"

Thank you--I enjoyed the article very much (except for the reference to Dan Brown in such august company).

Nice article. But I hope you won't mind if I act as your editor for a moment? The first thing I would ask is what is the "English tube system"? Second, I would question the inclusion of the statement that "(English Literature)... is also a kind of Rosetta Stone for understanding Canadian literary traditions". When a statement like that is made, I would expect some development of the proposition. There is none.

I cringed when I saw reference to Dan Brown's Temple Church because he is a terrible writer and not part of the English literary tradition, but I suppose it helps to position the article as being about books not being about high brow literature.

The final comment is geographical -- The North Yorkshire Moors are north-east of Haworth, not north-west.

Thanks everyone for your comments. I'm hoping to hear back from Adobe as to an easier way to access their site - the whole idea of posting documents here is to make them accessible to others.

And thank you ron for reading the article closely and having questions. I'm not sure what your objection to the phrase 'English tube system' is. I was trying to describe it to an audience that may not have been there/seen the map.

The Rosetta Stone proposition was developed in my original submission, but the editor cut it out because of space. I think it still works because the theme of the January issue was our Canadian literary heritage. All the articles dealt with a facet of the theme.

I agree with what you and others have said about Dan Brown - although I'm not sure I would say he was a terrible writer, I think his flawed plots are more annoying. I mentioned him for exactly the reason you note.

You are also, of course, right about the location of the moors. Proves, I guess, you can read something a million times and still miss a senior moment.

What a wonderful article. I so enjoyed your passion for English fiction and for the places that inspired the authors. Thank you so much for sharing.

Mavis, that is a great article, and the pictures are wonderful.

I love English scones, too, and have a recipe containing dried cherries that I think is quite good. If you would like it, e-mail me at [email protected] and I will be glad to send it to you.

Mavis, I don't want to turn this thread into an exercise in literary criticism when it should rightly be about you getting published and writing a very readable article.

But to respond to your comments, I don't know what a map of the English tube system is. I could imagine a map of the London tube system or of Glasgow's Clockwork Orange (although I don't know whether that underground system is called a tube, and it's not in England anyway).

It's too bad you lost the development of the link to Canadian literary tradition, because I'd be interested in what you had to say. I'm hardly an expert on Canadian literature, but at first blush I would have guessed that we are more influenced by American literature.

Not only does Brown have problems with plotting, he also has plodding, pedestrian writing style and weak character development. Other than that, he is very good.

Rickmav, I'm so glad you're published, but I can't get in either

Got in with your email and password.

Very nice article and photos. Good for you

I used rickmav's username and password, then clicked on author. See her post with the info.

Well done, Rickmav! I thoroughly enjoyed it. I could just see you in all those places & loved the story about the price tag on the shoe. You also piqued my interest in the Bloomsbury Group. I knew they were rather Bohemian but didn't know how much.

When is your next trip?

That was wonderful, thanks rickmav.

Hello again and thanks to those who helped others get into the Adobe site and for your comments. Carrybean - our next trip probably won't be until 2010 or later. The economy hasn't been kind to many of us who had been hoping to retire in the next year. Like others, we live carefully so we can travel, but for now our wonderful memories will be enough.