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Faster formulations
For companies operating in the pharmaceutical sector, product diversification is seen as a favourable means of achieving marketdominance. Katriona Knapman explores how knowledge management is becoming a crucial discipline for those companies that rely on formulations in their product development process.
Formulation is the preferred method of product development in todays chemical industry. However, it is impossible for the formulation chemist to keep track of the vast amount of knowledge involved in formulation processes. Global research and development, mergers and acquisitions, and retiring expertise, further complicate the issue. But knowledge management is coming to the rescue.
Formulate or dieThe soaps and detergents industry is historically one of the most competitive consumer sectors. Companies such as Procter & Gamble and Unilever invented marketing in order to satisfy their customers needs in the most efficient manner, thereby winning market share from their competitors.
Today detergent manufacturers still battle for shelf space, and consumers are faced with an increasingly broad choice - biological or non-biological detergents, powder or liquid cleaners, scented or fragrance-free soaps. Walking past the range of detergents available in any supermarket, the sheer variety cannot escape your attention. The labels reformulated for a whiter wash, new meadow-fresh fragrance - give away the industrys secret. These new offerings are not a result of revolutionary breakthroughs in detergency. Rather, they are the result of the continuous tweaking carried out in the formulations department.
Manufacturers see product diversification as a viable means to achieving market share. As well as producing many different variations of products in their home markets, manufacturers adapt their products for different markets around the world. The range of detergent products is phenomenal in a global market dominated by only three or four large players.
And most of this is achieved by reformulating existing products.
Formulation is relevant to a host of consumer goods, from paints and dyes, to chocolate and ice cream, soaps and detergents, and pharmaceuticals. Formulation is the process of mixing the ingredients and refining the production process in such a way as to meet all of the marketing requirements for the product. Balancing the ingredients and processes that make up the final product is a fine art.
With a washing powder, the amount of detergent, water softener, foamer, fragrance, colouring, and enzymes can all be altered to meet consumer taste and environmental requirements. With a cocoa powder, the ingredients may have to be balanced to achieve a creamy taste while keeping costs under a certain level. Formulation chemists may be faced with the challenge of creating a new paint that is both anti-corrosive and anti-graffiti. In a pharmaceutical company the requirement may be to deliver a drug in a small tablet that has a long shelf life.
Basically, formulations are processed mixtures of ingredients (usually chemicals), combined according to a set recipe in order to produce certain attributes in the final product. Using the correct recipe is often as vital as getting the ingredients right, and the processes involved can be very complex.
New formulations are designed for a variety of reasons:
The chemicals industry today is faced with increasing pressure over environmental regulations, health and safety standards, increased customer habit analysis, and the requirement to maintain competitiveness in a global market. All of these factors put pressure on the formulations department to perform to higher levels of efficiency and effectiveness.
The goal of global formulationsIn the age of the global chemical company, international communication and co-ordination are issues as never before. As the world has become more unified, the benefits of having separate national organisations have diminished. Chemicals companies have expanded into global markets and are leveraging their global presence to take advantage of economies of scale and different local strengths.
Formulations are also becoming more standardised around the world in order to achieve economies of scale. However, they can never be completely globalised for two main reasons.
Firstly, habits, and perceptions are very different around the world. For example, a sweeter, milkier formulation of chocolate is formulated for the British market than for the rest of Europe to satisfy the nations taste. Physical environments also vary. For example, Brazils water supply is one of the softest in the world, so there is no need to include water-softening ingredients in Brazilian washing powder. In other markets such as the UK, about 50 per cent of the chemicals in the washing powder are used to soften the water in order to obtain a better wash. As a result, Brazilian powder would not work in the UK, and the powder marketed in the UK uses ingredients superfluous in Brazil.
Secondly, regulatory conditions vary from country to country. For example, Thai law states that in order to call a product washing powder, it must contain a certain percentage of surfactants. Even if a better formulation was produced using fewer surfactants, the product could not be sold as a washing powder in Thailand. The regulatory restrictions are arguably most applicable to the pharmaceuticals industry, which must ensure that their ingredients meet the standards of individual countries.
These examples serve to illustrate the fact that different formulations still need to be produced for different markets. In order to work efficiently, formulators must be able to access data about the existing formulations, regulations, and market environments around the world. The goal of the formulator in a global chemicals business is to make the formulations as similar as possible. The production process and the formulations portfolio must be rationalised to achieve economies of scale, then adapted and fine-tuned for different markets.
The knowledge challengeThere are very few formal courses available in formulation chemistry, and most new formulation chemists are trained in-house. A lot of the experimental work in developing new products through formulations involves a trial and error method. However, this is backed up with an in-depth understanding of how the chemical properties and the processing of the mixtures relate to the final characteristics of the new product, such as the shelf life, biodegradability, taste, or cleaning power.
Naturally, this new product development must take place in a context of consumer requirements, environmental regulations, and ingredient availability. Best practice formulations, the goal of every formulations department, means fulfilling the requirements for the new product through the most efficient use of available resources in the shortest possible design cycle, resulting in a product with maximum robustness.
Scientists whose task it is to produce new chemical formulations rely on a large wealth of experience in formulation design. Typically they know the recipes (formulae) and ingredients (suppliers chemicals) inside out, and have been working in the same department for years. Training a new formulations chemist requires a large investment, and the loss of an old hand through retirement or career progression is a severe blow to the department. With an ageing and increasingly mobile workforce, management watches skills and knowledge leave the company, with the replacement prospects at best being expensive; at worst non-existent.
Workforce attrition is only part of the problem. Even with the same expert workforce, many formulations departments are not working as efficiently as they might. With laboratory results stored in legacy systems, it takes expert company knowledge and experience to know that the results and methods are there, let alone to locate them quickly. This situation is compounded in global R&D set-ups where scientists in laboratories in different countries are working on similar problems. Time differences and language barriers mean that in many cases scientists find that it is easier to repeat an experiment than to find previous results. Mergers and acquisitions, common in the chemicals industry, further cloud the issue, adding different data storage systems to the equation.
Knowledge management is offering real solutions to these problems.
Storing information in a corporate formulations-focused data repository means that scientists can access results and methods from anywhere in the world. They can use their time and resources on new research, rather than repeating old work. Using computer technology to manage an organisations knowledge also helps to plan for and minimise the erosion of skills, ensuring that projects run smoothly and efficiently.
An example of a situation where a formulations knowledge management system could have had a huge impact is the recent currency crisis in SE Asia. Due to the devaluation of currency, those markets could not afford to import external ingredients for their washing powders. Detergents companies had to respond to this situation as quickly as possible by producing new products that would satisfy customers in the new environment.
Formulators working under these time pressures needed immediate access to information. They needed to know which ingredients could be easily substituted, and what the minimum quantities were for essential ingredients. The critical success factor was their ability to harness existing corporate knowledge in order to get a new product to market as quickly as possible.
Knowledge management and intelligent tools for the design of experiments help chemists to design formulation experiments taking full advantage of the existing corporate knowledge base. They also ensure that the corporation has a record of what happened when, and, most importantly, why, so that this knowledge is recorded and made available to other scientists.
Knowledge management offers a great improvement to a chemical specialism that relies so heavily on the knowledge of individuals. It also ensures that previous experimental knowledge can be reused the next time a new formulation is required. Scientists working on similar projects at a later date or in different locations will have access to this knowledge, which will save time and money in repeated effort. Storing the failed formulations as well as the successful ones ensures that only one person will go down each dead end.
FASTer formulationsMolecular Simulations Inc. (MSI) has created a new knowledge management and formulations design system that enables scientists to develop and manage the information and knowledge inherent in the formulation process. MSIs Formulation-Assisting Software Toolkit (FAST) is an Oracle-based system for formulation design.
Figure 1 captures the overall view of the Software Toolkit, as it embraces the product development process. When a formulator is given a goal of creating an improved product formulation, the first step is to avoid re-inventing the wheel or going down a known dead-end. Providing easy access to existing product data immediately saves time and lets the scientist take advantage of existing corporate knowledge.
The FAST system provides access to existing corporate databases, along with data mining tools to assist in the search. If, after consulting the database, it becomes apparent that the formulator will need to carry out new experiments in order to create the new formulation, FAST provides an Experimental Design Tool that helps the formulation chemist design the experiments in the most efficient manner.
The data from the experiments could be added as-is to the FAST database. However, a far more effective way of capturing and distributing this information is to build a correlative model from it, and store the model in the database for subsequent re-use. A correlative model is a statistically derived equation which, given inputs describing formulation ingredients and usage conditions, predicts an experimentally-measured property.
Combining models with data management provides an ideal technology for exporting business knowledge throughout an organisation. FAST provides a general framework for letting formulators access models to make tentative electronic formulations (eFormulations). Formulators can try what-if virtual experiments at a fraction of the cost and time of laboratory ones, and so can rapidly narrow of the range of potential products.
Once models for all relevant performance properties (including cost) have been developed, then the process of practical formulation design can move on to the real world of trading properties off against each other in the context of rapidly changing market conditions, in order to find the best overall product. The FAST optimiser tool allows for automatic multi-objective optimisation, where goals for each different property may be independently set (e.g. maximise, minimise, ignore). The optimiser then automatically varies the ingredient levels to simultaneously achieve as far as possible all specified goals. The user can choose between weighted optimisation, appropriate in a case where all goals can be simultaneously satisfied, and pareto optimisation, where a decrease in performance of one property will be accepted in exchange for an increase in another property.
Finally, the formulator visualises the results of the data mining or virtual experiment, in the multi-dimensional formulation+property space. This is done with the Spotfire tool, a third party product provided by Spotfire, Inc. In some cases, customers want to integrate the lists of possible ingredients within FAST with toxicological and production databases. One such link is to the toxicity information provided by Ariel Research Corporations tools. These provide information on a geographical basis (state, country) about the use of ingredients. This data is extremely important to the formulators as they work to develop global brands or master formulations.
FAST is currently in use in formulation laboratories around the world. It is available exclusively to members of the MSIs Formulations Consortium.
The consortium modelDue to the high level of customisation required for any knowledge management system, MSI has chosen a consortium model of product development.
The consortium model has proven to be an effective mechanism for developing new computational technology and transferring it to industry. MSI has pioneered the consortium model, and it is also used by other companies in the same field, such as Oxford Materials.
Consortium development is a cost-effective approach to software development. Companies join a consortium with other companies in a similar business with similar problems and needs. Jointly, they agree on the best course of software development at a pre-competitive stage. The resultant software is tailored to the needs of the consortium members, but has been achieved at a fraction of the cost of contract or in-house development. Most of the key software developments remain exclusive to consortium members for an agreed period of time. The support and maintenance overhead is shared by the consortium members and is the responsibility of the software company that serves the consortium.
Consortium development of scientific software is the ideal for many pharmaceutical and chemical companies. The client is sure that they get the software that they want, individually tailored to their needs. The software company gains valuable insight into the workings of their clients industry, and after an agreed period of time they are able to sell similar solutions with the support of a sound relationship with a leading company. The lock-in mechanism of a consortium, whereby the resultant product is only available to the other members of the consortium ensures that the company retains a competitive advantage by using the software.
MSI consortia are groups of industrial researchers, MSI scientists, and consultants offering particular expertise in relevant technologies. These groups focus on developing, validating, and applying computation to a specific research area. Membership provides software, formal input to MSI product plans, regular meetings at which experiences and ideas are shared, and dedicated application support. It can also offer early access to technology.
Since its inception in MSI, over ten years ago, the consortium model has been highly successful - particularly in establishing simulation in new application areas. Consortia provide nuclei from which wider use grows. Members enjoy the competitive advantages of early adapters - a technology lead, a greater knowledge base, and a better long-term return on their investment. MSI currently runs seven consortia, each of which focuses on a different technology area. MSIs most recent materials science consortium is the Formulations Consortium, which provides knowledge management and decision support software for the pharmaceutical and chemicals industries. Current members include Unilever Research PLC, Henkel KGaA, and Clorox Inc. On joining the Formulations Consortium, Dr. Wolfgang Gawrisch, Henkels Corporate Vice President, Research/Technology commented: "The Formulations Consortium will allow us to provide product developers in all business sectors of the Henkel Group with the latest available tools, significantly accelerating our development process."
The future of formulationsKnowledge management for chemical formulation is coming of age, and manufacturers are realising that there is real power to be had through applying computational techniques to formulation design. Companies such as MSI are making huge headway in providing comprehensive solutions to the challenge of knowledge management for formulation design.
Katriona Knapman is scientific communications manager at Molecular Simulations Inc. She can be contacted at: firstname.lastname@example.com


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In case you missed it, here is Fat Quarter Quilt Part 1.
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Fat Quarter Quilt- Part 2
14 comments:
- Jennifer Juniper said...
I love all the funky colors fat quarters come in! This would make a pretty quick quilt, I'll have to try it :)
- May 17, 2011 at 7:46 AM
- Sarah @ Sarahndipities said...
THis is just beautiful!! I love the patterns you chose!!
- May 17, 2011 at 9:47 AM
- Stacy said...
Great job on it! The quilting looks good and I don't blame you for going easy on the first time. I would, too! It's so pretty. :)
- May 17, 2011 at 10:09 AM
- Kimberly said...
I LOVE THE QUILT!!! Great job. I know Harper must love her new bedding.
- May 17, 2011 at 12:17 PM
- Quilted Cupcake said...
Who cares if you broke rules? I say, throw out the rulebook if you can create beautiful things like this. So lovely!
- May 17, 2011 at 12:23 PM
- April@ Natural Nester said...
I LOVE the colors and patterns you chose to use...so beautiful!! I've never made a quilt, but you might have talked me into it! :)
- May 17, 2011 at 1:33 PM
- Corey~living and loving said...
This turned out lovely. :) I bet Harper loves it.
- May 17, 2011 at 1:36 PM
- Maggie said...
Oh my goodness, that looks absolutely FABULOUS! Not that I had any doubt that it would, but wow -- I am even more impressed that this was your first attempt!
- May 17, 2011 at 2:36 PM
- carrie said...
Um...what rules?? :-) Jen! It is beautiful! I love the binding and that fabric is just TO DIE FOR! It really turned out great! Well done.
- May 18, 2011 at 2:03 AM
- Julie said...
Your quilt turned out AWESOME! LoVE it!
- May 22, 2011 at 4:39 PM
- Bugglesnug said...
Holy...you just made the binding look so simple. It's something I've struggled with and now I want to rush home and try to do it! Thanks!!!
- May 23, 2011 at 3:22 PM
- jaya pratheesh said...
heh. you followed all the rules , in fact. the rules are: Piece. Quilt. Bind. you did all of them. I love that you did not go through the cut-it-into -pieces-and-stitch them -back-together thing that most "quilters" do.
and if i had that quilt, i would have done parallel straight lines, about 4 inches apart. so it would have a quilted look, but not too difficult. (knowing me, it wont be parallel, nor uniformly 4 inches, but thats the joy of handmade!)
wonderful look for the bed. good job! - May 26, 2011 at 2:31 AM
- Krissy said...
What a genius way to do a first full sized quilt. Love it!
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- Jen Paetzold said...
Breaking the quilting rules is how I roll! I love it :D
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Butch James's Bath have secured a spot in the Euro Challenge Cup final and are still on course for the Premiership play-offs.
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New Springboks coach Peter de Villiers has been forced to shut the door on many of the side's World Cup winning stars ahead of this year's international season.
Players like Victor Matfield, Butch James and Percy Montgomery now ply their trade in Europe and the South African board has limited De Villiers to a maximum of three overseas-based players.
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Patti age 12 at the Royal Ballet School.
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Nice work Panfan,
These are two of the best Ive seen of Patti, she looks super cute, Patti has amazing eyes and a lovely smile.....oh... and her Disco hair!!.
Brave Solo Piece ffrom Patti
Thought that this was a really brave solo piece from Patti, there was no hiding place, and the song was way way from another era.
My daughter was very impressed with the split-screen hitch hiking thumb and stars under Patti's eye. Little girl has drawn a picture of the dance: I'll post this in a couple of months (am trying to post a new picture each month). When the kids' drawings run out I'll have to incorporate my own art. Oh no.
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Well done Pattifan! Looks
Well done Pattifan! Looks like you're providing a fantastic addition to the image archive.
I'll sort it out for you
I'll sort it out for you tomorrow evening. When you upload an image, it needs to be resized beforehand (600 pixels width for this column). If you embed, there are additional options to rescale it.
I think you can upload 3 images per post, up to 2MB each.
Great pictures PattiFan thankyou for taking the time to post these. Patti really is one of the most expressive dancers don't you think?
Morning Glory Patti
My favourite Patti moment from Ruby Flipper, I love the way Patti waves her finger at the camera ( the viewers who I am sure are swooning over her )
Some great shots here, well
Some great shots here, well done!
Thanks PattiFan the ladies do indeed look lovely in this album-cover shot. I do get a tinge of regret from it though, as it reminds me that Patti was absent from the Slowhand routine on TOTP whence come these great outfits. Fantastic that this album cover allowed us another look though and I agree it is classic 80s
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Well done to all on each of these screencaps of Patti, they are all just mindblowing, such a wonderful dancer and such beauty.
Tubular Belle
Yes thanks again PattiFan. Patti is so great in Tubular Bells. She looks particularly graceful and natural in this rare outdoor routine.
Tubular Bells - Tough Assignment
This must have been a very tough one to film, the kids and I spotted the following (did you?):
* when the dancers circle Patti as she holds the wicker confetti bowl, she gets badly bumped on her right shoulder, I think by Floid. On the next "circuit" you see Patti nod almost imperceptibly, as if she had been asked "sorry, are you OK?" by the other dancer
* at one point camera is on Patti, a very dry-mouthed Lulu waits behind until she is seemingly out of view to moisten her lips with a very thirsty tongue, searing midday heat (almost no shadow) in a sunken London garden mid-July 1976, must have been almost 40 degrees out of the shade. Oh the poor fair-skinned girl, she was over-heating!
* Paul Nicholas's big brother Gavin lies back and nearly cracks his head on a plant pot, only for his bouffant blond curls to absorb the impact and save the day
Conclusion - done in one take to prevent dehydration. All agreed back in the studio next week, Tony Blackburn won't be back for another month
Was the panning shot done with a hand-held camera?
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Strutting with thanks
Great pics again PattiFan. If I'm not mistaken those last two are from Strut Your Funky Stuff not It's a Love Thing but I can't blame you for getting distracted by the gorgeous lady!
I don't remember the Villiage People taking off their costumes half way through their act!
Patti in PVC?
As the excellent photos are slightly blurred, I can't work out what Patti is wearing.
Is she wearing PVC?
I love experimenting with different looks including PVC. Whatever she's wearing, it looks cool and what a great song to dance to, by the brilliant Blondie. :)
That's probably a Ballet kick
That's probably a Ballet kick pattifan!.Thankyou so much for these amazing screencaptures.Thanks for your hard work in putting them up.


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Does anybody know anything about
You post up to your whole ms on the site (run my Harper Collins UK) and people comment on it -
What do you guys know/think about this??
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Here's an old thread for it:
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Hey Kitty, I've been on there for about a month. Here's how it all works: (Man, this is gonna be a long-winded post... ugh)
The Mechanics of Authonomy
The purpose of Authonomy is to get your book into the top five spots so the HarperCollins editors will review it. When you first sign up, your rank will be in the 7000 range. (Mine's up to 166.)
For your book or partial to be visible on Authonomy, you must post a minimun of 10,000 words. Most people post 3-5 chapters, but some post the whole book.
If you decide to post something, post it at the same time as you sign up, never a few days later. NEVER. More on this below. Once your book is posted and you have clicked the button to make it visible to others, never make it invisible or you'll lose your spot in the ratings. Also, never let your word count fall below 10,000 because that'll make you lose your spot, too.
Your book has a rating and you have a personal score called TSR - Talent Spotter Rating. You want this number to be as small as possible. When you start, your number will likely be 11,000-ish. Mine's 31.
The TSR score, along with the number of books you back, the number of backings you get and the number of comments you leave and get back somehow work together to determine your book's rating. No one can figure out how exactly this works.
To get your TSR score up (see below) you have to back a book with a low rating that you think is really good and will climb the charts. BUT, everyone who wants to boost their TSR fast will back the newest books. If fifty people back a book in less than a minute, the TSR of the first ten or so of those fifty people will skyrocket. Savvy users *cough*
are always looking for new writers to back their book right away, whether it sucks or not. This usually propels a book up to 2000-something from 7000-something. If you sign up for an account, then ignore it for a week before you post your book, your profile will be so buried that you won't get that boost because the hoard won't back you en masse. And frankly, if you're starting from 7000, you'll never make it to the top five. Really you won't.
The Social Aspect of Authonomy
Most people on the site are mean. Really mean. The site has no visible moderation and people will say the nastiest things in the forums. I mean, I've seen the n-word in there. Yeah... the n-word. You can report abuse, but nothing ever comes of it.
There are two warring factions on the site; the group that plays "the game" and the forum-dwellers. The forum-dwellers spend most of their time complaining about the players. The players are on the site to get to the top five - they don't care about anything else. The forum-dwellers (aka The Whiners/Moaners). The forum crowd say that they're there to "improve their craft as artists," which is all well and good, but I don't think that most of them do any actual writing.
Some "people" on the site are dummies... you know, like in a department store. Some people have secondary accounts (called sock puppets or socks) to offer extra backings to people who back the writer's book. It's not really considered cheating, but a tool to win the game. The forum-dwellers hate socks and I can understand why - right now two of the top five TSR scorers are socks.
Socks are just one of a few tools (I don't use one, btw) that the players use to climb the charts. They also spam and nudge like crazy. Authonomy actually seems to encourage this. I read somewhere that they like an author who's good at self-promotion. *shrugs* Authonomy also encourages people to get their friends and family to sign up to back their book.
The "Scam" and Stigma of Authonomy
HarperCollins advertises their self-publishing business on the site. I assume they must make a lot of money from people with poorly-written novels and poetry books who desperately want to be published. I'm not trying to be mean when I say that - it's the truth. I can understand that everyone has dreams - I'm not begrudging anyone of their dreams - but... I feel like such a meanie... not everyone who writes a book is going to be offered a contract from Random House. Querytracker is VERY different (and considerably better) than Authonomy - pretty well everyone on here is fairly serious about getting published. Authonomy isn't like that. A lot (most?) of the books on there stink and for some of those writers... well, self-publication is probably their best bet.
A lot of writers (including some folks on here) hate Authonomy because of all of the "problems" with it. (Socks, masse-backings, people backing a book without actually reading it, etc.) I see their point. As I said in another thread - Authonomy has no dignity and serious, dedicated writers are by-and-large disgusted by it. But you have to take it for what it is - a game. You can play or not play. I'm playing. I know that 99% of people who back my book aren't reading it, but I don't really care. I just want the critique from the HC editors because I think it'll be useful. AND there is the very real possibility of being picked up by an agent. The guy who's currently in the #1 spot got an agent when he was in the top fifty.
"Problems" with Authonomy
People back books without reading them
Spamming/excessive nudging
Mean people in the forum
You don't need to confirm an e-mail address to sign up so people can sign up with fake addresses and back their own stuff easily.
Generic reviews. Ex: Wow! What a page-turner! You have such a gift for writing narrative! I just love how you introduce your characters - you've made them so real and the dialogue is excellent... blah blah blah.
People back books that aren't fit to line a bird cage just to get a return backing to boost their own rating, which means that really crummy books can make it pretty far - not that HC will publish them, of course.
Masse-backings, not backing anything with a red arrow even if it's the next MOBY DICK, the ability to back unlimited books, and umpteen other things that you can do to boost your TSR score
I could go on...
If you're serious about playing, you need to keep track of everyone you back and everyone who backs you on a spread sheet.
Leave a comment for every book you back as it'll boost some mysterious mechanism in the scoring.
Back new books everyday, preferably several times a day. If you don't log on for a week, your ratings will fall like a lead ballon. You've got to keep at it.
If you're curious, you can watch what I'm doing. The link's in the thread clutz posted. I hope this answers some of your questions. Read the FAQs on the Authonomy site - they're actually quite helpful.
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Dang Eva - you've gleaned all that in a month!?!??! I went to an all-girls Catholic school - games are in my past
I think for now I'll skip it, but maybe check it out to back your book - yikes - but GOOD LUCK - I hope it works out for you...
By the by - your post was hysterical (thanks)
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Hope it helped.
I had a classic Authonomy moment today. Sometimes it can get really boring and tedious, leaving comments and keeping track of stuff... sometimes I do stupid things to amuse myself while I'm working at it, even though I know I shouldn't.
I was reading a poorly-written blurb for a book that was also poorly-written (I'm not making fun of this person, btw. I actually feel kinda bad for him.) Anyway, his blurb had several phrases like this, "... a deadly game of life and death." I told him he had a great vocabulary and a wonderful grasp of the English language. I can't believe I did that - the devil made me do it.
The guy responded, thanking me for the compliment... *cringes*
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Wow, Eva. Karma to you for explaining this nightmare. Your post will really, really help someone who wants to jump in. It should be required reading.
I'm not involved in Authoronomy, but reading your description makes me think of publishing
in general
. It is a bit of a game, and there are rules, and also a whole host of corollaries and end-runs and sub-plots with villagers. But if you really pay attention, you can tease apart the things that matter and the ones that don't.
I wish you the best with it!
Author of the novel JULIA'S CHILD (Jan 2012 Plume/Penguin) and THE SKI HOUSE COOKBOOK (Clarkson Potter 2007)
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I'm kind of given up on it. My mss got up to 62, but the site kept crashing and there are a lot of bullies on there who will actively campaign against people in the top 100. I just got sick of it... it was especially irksome to know that only like, three books have ever been published off there. Last time I checked, I was hovering at 68.
I got that email too. That's what Authonomy's really for, although no one wants to admit it. It's a clever scheme to get writers who would never ordinarily get out of the slush pile to self-publish through HarperCollins.
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
Holiday Copy Cat Challenge
29 comments:
- Debbiedoo's blogging and blabbing said...
Beautiful copy cat, and beautiful glowing inspiration. I thank you for participating, I sure do love this challenge and really enjoy seeing what everyone comes up with. have fun!~
- December 4, 2011 at 3:52 PM
- Karen said...
Oh I just love this, it so so beautiful! You did a great job.
- December 4, 2011 at 4:02 PM
- Toni said...
Great copy cat. The candlesticks really lovely, and the glass balls really add that extra wow. How special it will feel to sit down for Christmas dinner with your new centerpiece.
- December 4, 2011 at 4:48 PM
- Sharon said...
I Love the bubbles! I will copy that at some point, I am not sure when...but you can bet I will!
Sharon - December 4, 2011 at 5:48 PM
- Barb and Dell said...
Your copy cat is fabulous! The glass balls really add the extra wow.
Barb - December 4, 2011 at 6:04 PM
- Olive Cooper said...
You are right the bubbles are divine. Very well done copy catting.
- December 4, 2011 at 8:36 PM
- Honey at 2805 said...
Perfect interpretation of your inspiration! It's gorgeous!
- December 4, 2011 at 8:46 PM
- NanaDiana said...
Really GREAT job of copy catting. I think the "bubbles" are the perfect finishing touch! Love it! xo Diana
- December 4, 2011 at 9:02 PM
- Kathe said...
Awesome copycat! I love the bubbles. Like others have already said, I will copycating your copycat!! Wasn't this such a fun party?
- December 4, 2011 at 9:47 PM
- FLOWERSHOPGURL said...
Wow, just beautiful, love, love, love it!
Kim - December 4, 2011 at 11:22 PM
- Maria Elena said...
Oh, your copycat is so beautiful!!!!
I love it! - December 5, 2011 at 8:34 AM
- Rosemary@villabarnes said...
Fantastic copy. You were made for this challenge. I like the use of the ornaments as bubbles.
- December 5, 2011 at 4:13 PM
- Elizabeth (Blue Clear Sky) said...
Great copy cat! Love the bubbles and the mix of candlesticks. The bit of greenery adds the perfect touch.
- December 5, 2011 at 4:17 PM
- Babs said...
What a great way to get a fabulous look with an assortment of mismatched candlesticks. Love it! Thanks for the instructions.
Babs - December 5, 2011 at 4:35 PM
- Shenita @ Embellishments by SLR said...
Kitty, what a great copy! In fact, I like yours better...I agree, the "bubbles" add that extra touch! This is so pretty!! Great job!
- December 5, 2011 at 9:01 PM
- Jann Olson said...
Wow, you are a fantastic copycatter. Love, love your display. The candlesticks and babbles are beautiful together. Have fun tending that little one.
- December 5, 2011 at 10:58 PM
- Ricki Jill Treleaven said...
I love the look of the mismatched candles!!! I am linking from Debbiedoos.
- December 6, 2011 at 7:48 AM
- the cape on the corner said...
what a great copycat! love the way those ornaments look like bubbles all over the table. gorgeous!
- December 6, 2011 at 12:03 PM
- mississippi artist said...
Great job, even better than theirs!
- December 7, 2011 at 6:24 AM
- Janette - The2Seasons said...
You did a great job. I love the greenery in the little mercury glass container. Stop by and see my photos of Ralph Lauren's Christmas table.
- December 7, 2011 at 4:13 PM
- Ramblings of a Southern Girl ~ Rhonda G said...
Beautiful interpretation of the magazine spread. Looks great! And I love your bubble ornaments!
- December 7, 2011 at 4:57 PM
- Kathy @ Creative Home Expressions said...
Very elegant! I love the touches of green and how the ornaments look like bubbles!
- December 7, 2011 at 7:14 PM
- Richard Cottrell said...
I love all the candles, thanks for stopping by and especially thanks for following. Richard from My Old Historic House.
- December 9, 2011 at 11:31 AM
- Mary Claire said...
Looks outstanding and I'm lovin' your idea with the glass ornaments. Have a FUN trip.
Linda - December 9, 2011 at 1:25 PM
- Lori said...
Your attempt is just gorgeous. I had to keep looking back and forth to make sure it wasn't the same picture. Thanks for stopping by. I thought the shot of no tree and lights would get some attention. :)
- December 9, 2011 at 5:04 PM
- Lynne (lynnesgiftsfromtheheart) said...
Hi darling, Oh my goodness, did you ever capture the beauty of the picture. Your centerpiece of candles are gorgeous! Your clear balls remind of bubbles that popped out of your champagne glasses.. Thank you for swinging by my blog.. hugs ~lynne~
- December 9, 2011 at 7:29 PM
- The French Hutch said...
Hi Kitty, You did a beautiful copy of the magazine photo. Your votives with the greenery is one I'll copy from you, it looks so pretty in the mercury votives. Good idea to pull the hanger tops off the ornaments, for glass baubles. Hope your enjoying the Christmas season.
Enjoy your evening Kitty.
The French Hutch - December 10, 2011 at 8:15 PM
- Yvonne@StyleBurb said...
Wowee! This looks so amazing! I love the silver, white and green together- and the clear glass balls really look like bubbles. I love it!!
If that's a glass of chardonnay I'll be right over ;) - December 12, 2011 at 1:48 PM
- 723.home.plain & simple said...
love this look!!!
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