Have you ever wondered how, and where, your favourite authors live? Flavorwire put together a collection of famous authors' homes. We added some of our own.

The homes featured belong to:

Agatha Christie, Anaïs Nin, Danielle Steele, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Evelyn Waugh, Frederick Douglas, Gore Vidal, J. K. Rowling, James Patterson, Karen Blixen, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, Robert Graves, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen King, Victor Hugo, Vladimir Nabokov, Voltaire, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth

Danielle Steele lives in The Spreckels Mansion in Pacific Heights

Greenway - the holiday home of Agatha Christie

James Patterson's Everglades Island house (since sold)

J.K. Rowling’s country estate, Perthshire, Scotland

Anaïs Nin’s Silver Lake Home

Ernest Hemingway’s tropical home, Key West, Florida

Frederick Douglass’ mansion, Cedar Hill, Washington, DC

Victor Hugo’s estate, Guernsey

Stephen King’s mansion, Bangor, Maine

Gore Vidal’s (now-sold) villa, Amalfi coast, Italy

Vladimir Nabokov’s family estate, Rozhdestveno, Siverskaya, Leningrad Oblast

Rudyard Kipling's Home, Bateman's Lane, East Sussex

Eudora Welty’s estate, Jackson, Mississippi

Mark Twain’s house, Hartford, Connecticut

Evelyn Waugh’s country house, Piers Court, Gloucestershire

The house where Kurt Vonnegut wroteSlaughterhouse Five, Iowa City, Iowa

Edith Wharton’s estate, The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts

Robert Graves’s house and amazing view, Deià, Majorca

William Shakespeare’s home, Stratford-upon-Avon

Voltaire lived at Chateau de Cirey 52110 Cirey-sur-Blaise, France

The farm where Karen Blixen lived in Langata, Nairobi, Kenya

Rydal Mount, former house of William Wordsworth, Cumbria, England

One of the souces: http://flavorwire.com/252181/15-famous-authors-beautiful-estates

More good news for Writers Write

Random Fact: 

Someone buys a romance novel every five seconds, according to Businessweek. This $1.6 billion business is one of the leading genres for eBook sales.

 Another Writers Write graduate has won the The Essential Voice romance writing competition.

The news comes hot on the heels of the announcement that graduate, Joanne Garland,is the winner of the Macmillan / Citizen Book Prize.

Graduates, Shelagh Foster and Mia Botha, were previous winners of the competition. 

This Kiss, a  Writers Write course specialising in writing for Mills & Boon, has been featured in the February issue of O Magazine.

‘This shows Writers Write has a writing recipe that produces results,’ says Ulrike Hill, Writers Write facilitator. ‘Our CEO, Amanda Patterson, had to excuse herself as a judge in the first Essentials Mills & Boon competition because more than 50% of the finalists were Writers Write graduates.’

Two of the runners-up, and other finalists, some writing under pseudonyms, are also Writers Write and This Kiss graduates.

Suzanne Jefferies, who completed Writers Write, and Writers Write 2,  was the winner for her entry ‘The Hunt’.

Guest Speaker
Did you know that every 17^th book that is sold is written by James Patterson? Meet Andrew Gross, co-author of Six Bestsellers with James Patterson, on 15 February 2012.

Business Writing: Vicki Cicoria vicki@writerswrite.co.za
Creative Writing: Ulrike Hill news@writerswrite.co.za

Writing Tips from Writers Write

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A semicolon:

•     Is a long pause that balances two related ideas. Example: She went by train; she would rather have flown.

•     Adjoins two main clauses containing opposite ideas. Example: She is efficient; he is disorganised.

•     Adjoins two main clauses where there is no conjunction. Example: My laptop is broken; I can’t transmit the document.

•     Can separate items in a list when the items already contain commas. Example: Attendees included the CEO, Jeff Davis and his son, Tristan; the MD, Fred Khumalo, and his wife, Susan; and Harriet and Kosi from the PR agency.

•     May be replaced by a full stop or by the conjunctions: and, but, so, for, although.

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A colon:

•     Indicates that a list will follow.

•     Indicates that an idea, or an explanation, will follow. Example: There is one thing that separates writers from talkers: writers write.

•     Indicates dialogue. Example: James looked at Sarah and said: You’re a wonderful woman. 

•     Indicates a direct quotation. Example: Freud once said: There is nothing wrong with blaming your mother.

For more information on our business writing courses call Vicki Cicoria 0732242131,or email vicki@writerswrite.co.za

10. The First Book of Urizen, William Blake — $2.5 million

9. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling — $3.98 million

8. Geographia Cosmographia, Claudius Ptolemy — $4 million

7. Traité des arbres fruitiers by Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau — $4.5 million

6. The Gutenberg Bible — $4.9 million

5. First Folio, William Shakespeare — $6 million

4. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer — $7.5 million

3. Birds of America, James Audubon — $11.5 million

2. The Gospels of Henry the Lion, Order of Saint Benedict — $11.7 million

1. The Codex Leicester, Leonardo da Vinci — $30.8 million

Source: Flavorwire Books

The Plain Language Programme includes:

1. The Write Impression – The grammar business
2. The Word Business - Writing in an electronic world
3. The Write Pitch – Writing for your audience
4. The Bottom Line – Editing in plain language

What is Plain Language? Legal definition

When? 2012

16-19 January
13-16 February
19-22 March
16-19 April
21-24 May
18-21 June
16-19 July
20-23 August
17-20 September
15-18 October
19-22 November
3-6 December

How long? Four days from 9am to 1pm
Where? Johannesburg and Cape Town (Durban on request)
How much? R6 500 excluding VAT for four modules
Contact? Vicki Cicoria 073 224 2131
Email address? vicki@writerswrite.co.za

Writers Write - More than 120 published authors

Created by Amanda Patterson 

Writers Write is The Beginner’s Guide to Writing Anything.

Join us for an interactive, results-driven course.We guarantee an easy-to-learn, simple writing recipe that works. You’ll love our informal style. With more than 100 published graduates, Writers Write is the ideal course for any writer.

We cover:  Plotting • Pacing • Description • Characterisation • Dialogue • Publishing • Viewpoint • Rewriting • Research • Genre 

When?
January 2012
14: (Four Consecutive Saturday Mornings)
16–19 (Four Consecutive Weekday Mornings)
February 2012
18: (Four Consecutive Saturday Mornings)
March 2012
5-8: (Four Consecutive Weekday Mornings)
17: (Four Consecutive Saturday Mornings)
April 2012
23–26 (Four Consecutive Weekday Mornings) 
May 2012
5: (Four Consecutive Saturday Mornings)
  
Cost? R6000 excluding VAT
Queries? news@writerswrite.co.za  
Writers Write runs over four mornings.
Venues? Johannesburg (Cape Town & Durban on request)

A common mistake in English is to say ‘between you and I’, as in this sentence: It’s a bit silly, between you and I. 

It's correct to say ‘between you and me’ and incorrect to say ‘between you and I’. 

The reason? 
A preposition such as between must be followed by an objective pronoun (such as me, him, her, and us) rather than a subjective pronoun (such as I, he, she, and we). Saying ‘between you and I’ is the same as saying ‘between him and she’, or ‘between we’.

Why do people make this mistake?
They know it’s incorrect to say ‘Sarah and me love going out’. They know it's correct to say ‘Sarah and I love going out’. Most people then think the words ‘and me’ should be replaced by ‘and I’ in all cases. 

The correct expression is always 'between you and me', as in this sentence: It’s a bit silly, between you and me.

by Amanda Patterson
References: oxforddictionaries.com
 For information on our business writing courses call Vicki Cicoria 0732242131 or email vicki@writerswrite.co.za