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Aren't we having fun with our ninth anniversary? Here are some more Wenchly first books. By chance the Friday post is Jo, Jo, Jo -- and Anne. So we have Joanna Bourne, Mary Jo Putney, me and Anne Gracie talking about our first published book. As on Wednesday, you still has a chance to win our anniversary prize.
It's simple. You'll get a ticket in the Rafflecopter hat for every option you click on below.
On to first books.
Joanna Bourne.
My first book -- it was the first fiction I'd written since short stories for Middle School English class -- came about for one of the usual reasons.
I was staying at home with my first child. I was going squirrelly. One day I put down a book I was reading (which I did not wallbang only because ... sleeping child,) and I said, "Heck. even I can write better than that," as who among us has not.
Except I was armed with a typewriter and I'd written a goodly amount of nonfiction and thereby earned an honest living and I was, as I said, going quietly insane with not working so this was not entirely an empty threat. I wrote my Regency on an Underwood typewriter using carbon paper and white out. (You might find examples of those in your local museum.)
Avon bought Her Ladyship's Companion. YEAH!
Then we moved to West Africa (and Europe and the Middle East) and I went back to work and I didn't write any more fiction till I retired. My 'new' writing career started in 2008. It was only after that that I joined the Word Wenches. I'm still newest kid on the block here, but very proud and pleased to be a Wench.
Mary Jo Putney
I always had stories in my head; I thought everyone did. While becoming a writer sounded like the coolest thing possible (and by writer, I always meant fiction), it never occurred to me that I could become a Real, Published Author. As a kid from farm country, I lacked role models, while having dysgraphic typing and illegible handwriting in abundance.
The years passed and included a degree in 18th Century British Literature and two years of living in Oxford, England. Until the day came when I bought a computer and found that when you fix something, it stays fixed! As soon as I learned word processing, I decided to see if I could write a book. As one does. <G>
I'd been addicted to Georgette Heyer for years and more recently I'd discovered the Walker hardcover Regencies at the library. So when I sat down to type, what emerged was a Regency that owed much to Heyer, but with a subversive twist of my own. (The tall, darkly handsome, jaded lord does not win the heart of the shy but charming ingénue. She slips off and finds a man she likes better. <G>)
After three months of blithely typing along, I was offered a three book Signet Regency contract based on a 119 page partial manuscript. Having gone from my original title, The Musical Lady, (meh!) to my editor's suggestion of The Diabolical Baron, the book was published a year later and nominated for a Golden Medallion (the equivalent of today's RITA). Once I got over the shock of it all, (okay, I still haven't gotten over the shock!) I realized that I had some natural storytelling ability.
And ever since then, I've been trying to learn to write well!
Jo Beverley
I, too, always wanted to write fiction, specifically historical fiction, but like Mary Jo I didn't think ordinary people got to do that. That didn't stop me scribbling, but as a non-typist I didn't get serious until the word processor arrived in my life, courtesy of my early-PC-adopter husband. By then, the romance community was beginning to form. Romance Writers of America was in existence, and Romantic Times was in its early days. I had guidance, including Kathryn Falk's How to Write a Romance and Get it Published. (I do like a direct and meaningful title!) I learned stuff, but most of all that yes, ordinary people could become romance authors.
My first published book was Lord Wraybourne's Betrothed, a title I probably wouldn't get away with today. As with Mary Jo's first book, it took the conventions and gave them a twist. I enjoyed reading Regency romance, but I was tired of the unbelievable beginnings, which frequently had heroines plunging into wild escapades or running away from an unwanted marriage without a clue as to how to survive. So I went for convention, as shown from the opening line. "It was the most talked-about and yet the most tedious betrothal of the year." Yes, the well-behaved young heiress becomes betrothed to a sane and sensible, eligible earl.
Despite that it was published and was a finalist for the pre-RITA Golden Medallion. I was on my way. However, as it was published by Walker in a library hardcover with a print run of one thousand copies, it took a few more years and a few more books, and a paperback edition, for my to find my readership.
Anne Gracie
Anne here (or perhaps, given the fact that this is a Jo-centric blog, I ought to call myself Anne-Jo.)
When I wrote my first historical, I was aiming for the US market. Australian publishers didn't even look at romance in those days -- it was all mainstream fiction, mostly literary. I sent off letters to several big US publishers, offering them my Regency novel. They all said, No thanks, they weren't publishing regencies any more. Big disappointment. Then I saw my local library had regencies published by Mills and Boon (Harlequin UK) so I wrote off to them. By this time my manuscript was 126,000 words.
M&B wrote back to me saying, we like it, but our maximum length is 85,000 words. So I cut 40,000 words. It nearly killed me, but they bought it. Gallant Waif came out nearly eighteen months later. By then I'd learned that had I known to call it a "Regency historical" to the US publishers, (instead of a Regency) they would have been interested. I know this because an editor from one of those big US houses read it, emailed me and invited me to submit.
I decided to enter it in the RITA, but in those days M&B authors only got 6 free copies, and when I asked my editor for more, she said there weren't any. She also said there was no point in my entering it -- I
didn't have a hope. But I managed to scrape up the 15 requisite copies (for first book) and I entered the RITA.
Reader, it made the final cut! I was so thrilled. I attended my first RWA conference, met a whole lot of lovely people and made some friends who are still my good buddies today. And because of the RITA final, it was released as a Harlequin Historical, and I entered the US market.
Gallant Waif is now available as an ebook. I have to say, I could probably cut it some more -- I was too in love with adjectives and adverbs in those days -- but I still love the story. It's not available in e-book to Australians, but it's getting an Australian/NZ re-release in paperback, two books in one -- in August.
So you see, we all started by plunging in, even if we didn't think it was possible. It's not a bad approach to life.
Have you ever taken the plunge, dared to dream, or simply done something unusual because you couldn't not? I look forward to you response, and don't forget to enter the contest and celebrate with the Wenches.
Best wishes,
Jo. (Just Jo.)
Celebrate! Our Word Wenches blog is NINE years old this week!
In blog years, that's … well, since May 22, 2006, we've written nearly 1500 blogs, if you do a little math (and we prefer to do only a little math). Consider us wise and Wenchly after all those years and blogs, and very pleased to still be blogging strong. We're especially pleased and very grateful that you, our blog readers and friends, have been so loyal and such fun over the years!
We're celebrating with virtual cake and candles, balloons and prezzies – in the form of a great giveaway contest that you can all enter (see details below)! We're also celebrating with a look back at our very first books – the book that started it all for each of us, taking us by different paths to the Land of Word Wenches, where we indulged our mutual love of history and historical fiction—and found that one of the secrets to a long-lived blog is friendship (along with the ability to go with the flow and be real chill about details, and we're all pretty good at that)!
Here's a look at the first books we ever wrote – Part One.
Look for Part Two of our Anniversary Celebration on Friday!
Patricia Rice
The book that set me on the path to Wenchland was originally called Love's First Surrender, published by Kensington in 1984. I had just graduated with an accounting degree, was living in a small town that wasn't fond of the idea of female accountants, and for the first time since I was fourteen, I wasn't working or going to school or both. I had time to watch my toddler race around the driveway on his Big Wheel, but I was bored out of my skull. I like working. I couldn't afford to buy books, so I wrote my own. I wrote several, actually, but Surrender is the one I deliberately tried to write to fit the sexy historical romance market of the time. I'd never had a writing class, didn't know RWA existed, had no notion of how to get published except from Writer's Digest. But I figured I had to do something to make money if I couldn't find a job, so I dedicated toddler nap times to writing a sexy historical in long hand in a Walmart notebook. Once I had a complete draft, I bought a used Underwood typewriter and typed it all up. Those were the days of carbon copies, white-out, and boxing 500 pages to ship via snail mail with SASEs inside. I quickly learned to just send the first fifty pages!
And lo and behold, I got The Call the same week I was hired by two Baptist deacons as an accountant. Sometimes, we get what we wish for—and it only makes life more complicated!
Nicola is away this week, but we know she would want to join the party! So we want to mention that Nicola's first book was True Colours, published by Mills & Boon in 1998. You can find out more about it on Nicola's website. When she returns, perhaps she'll find a moment to tell us more about her first book and her road to Wenches!
Susan King
My first novel was born of my dissertation in medieval art and a pregnancy complication that put me on bedrest for months, bored out of my mind, on hiatus from graduate studies, and reading anything I could get my hands on. A friend brought me an assortment of used paperback historical romances, a genre I hadn't read before. Among that stack of books was a tattered copy of Woodiwiss' The Wolf and the Dove. It was medieval, it was lush, romantic, fresh and exciting – and a needed change from hefty history tomes. I began reading widely (and sort of rabidly) along the timeline of historical romance, absorbing everything. I had always loved fiction—and secretly wanted to write stories, but didn't think it practical (so I was studying, uh, art). The baby showed up, I returned to grad school, more babies showed up, and more bedrest and more reading. By the time I had three cute little guys running around and a dissertation nearly finished, I wanted to give fiction one good try before moving on.
With what little time I had, I flipped my dissertation—medieval England and manuscript illumination and a fascination with Robin Hood tales—tossed it in the story soup and stirred. The result was The Black Thorne's Rose. Somehow I entered a contest, somehow I won, and met an agent who encouraged me to finish the book. Within a month of submitting the manuscript, I had a two-book contract with Penguin. That first book was uniquely exciting and fun to write, and by following that writing road, I've found many friends, including the Wenches. Nine years ago, a few of us thought a blog would be fun – and here we are!
Anniversary Giveaway!
We're offering NINE great prizes in honor of our ninth anniversary – enter below for a chance to win!
Grand Prize: A bundle of eight Wench books will go to one lucky winner!
Eight Prizes: Eight winners will win one book each!
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by Mary Jo
Several weeks ago, I set out to write about clotted cream and scones, and it rapidly ballooned into such a massive amount of material that I decided to do two posts, one on clotted cream and one on scones. (Anne Gracie has already blogged on the general subject of afternoon tea.)
And it's still a massive amount of material! In our private Wench discussion loop, we ran wild, and given that the Wenches come from the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia, the range of experience--and opinions!--is vast.
A Short History
To start with an important point: scones are a quick bread, leavened by baking powder or baking soda, not yeast. So while the word "scone" goes back to at least the sixteenth century, it originally described a different product, probably a yeasted griddle cake. Baking powders weren't developed until the early 19th century, and the kind we use now was invented in the 1840s. So Regency scones might be different from the modern kind.
How IS scone pronounced??
The next issue, and this one is BIG: is the name pronounced to rhyme with "own" or with "on?" Peaceable household have been rent asunder by this argument. <G> As a loose generalization, North Americans and Britons from the south of the UK are more likely to say "scown", while Scots, Northern English, Aussies, New Zealanders and South Africans are more likely to say "scon." In the UK, undertones of classism creep in, with Southerners more likely to think that "scon" sounds lowbrow while Northerners think "scown" sounds like "putting on airs." Did you ever dream that this was such a fraught topic????
Here's a fun article from the Oxford dictionaries on the subject. (Complete with pie charts!) As they point out, both pronunciations are in wide use so there isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to say. But that doesn't prevent the fur from flying. <G>
Is a Scone just a Biscuit?
And the last great battle: is a scone the same as a biscuit? One of the Wenches used to be on a Regency era list where asking this question could produce blood on the pixels:
"American biscuits were NOTHING like scones. Even when I provided two recipes side by side, scones were still NOT like US biscuits!!! It was the Americans arguing this, BTW, not the Brits or Aussie/NZers."
This may be related to the fact that American biscuits are soft and/or flaky, while in the UK, biscuit usually means a harder baked good that's more like a cracker or a cookie that can be either sweet or savory. And yet the Americans were arguing that scones and biscuits were nothing alike though biscuits are softish, like scones, in this part of the world.
This segued into a Wenchly discussion on the differences between scones and biscuits, of which our bottom line conclusion is that biscuits are more diverse in how they're made--though a buttermilk biscuit is indeed kissin' kin to a scone.
Another difference is that scones use butter while biscuits generally use shortening. Also, to make scones very light in texture, there's an emphasis on keeping ingredients cold and mixing them very quickly, keeping handling to a minimum because that toughens the end result.
Keeping ingredients cold is something I learned when I lived in England--having "a light hand for pastry" generally means having cold hands. I should bake more often since I tend toward cold hands. <G>
Biscuits tend to have more kneading and handling. Our one Wench who was Southern raised says, "All these fluffy biscuits just puzzle me. Biscuits are supposed to be flaky and break apart in many layers. You put them on a board and pat them out. Fold. Pat down. Fold, etc."
So that's another approach to biscuits. In the American South, gravy biscuits are a divinely unhealthy breakfast staple. (Hot biscuits split and topped with a white gravy that has lots of little bits of sausage in it. When my sister moved to Virginia and started mentioning gravy biscuits, I thought they sounded appalling. Until I ate some from a very find country kitchen. <G> Yum!)
Having provided all that background, here's a recipe provided by Anne Gracie for a very simple, classical scone.
Here's a very basic recipe -- quick and easy. It's 20 minutes from getting down the flour and taking the butter out of the fridge, to putting them warm in a basket. Plain scones need to be eaten fresh from the oven IMO -- but as I only make them when I have visitors, that's no problem. They go very quickly.
And here's a youtube video of a jolly New Zealand chef making scones with absolutely minimal handling. She grates in ice cold butter, does most of the mixing with a knife, and barely touches the dough at all. And they look pretty darned good!
So where do you stand on these great debates? Scowns or Scons? Are scones just a kind of biscuit? And are either biscuits or scones a regular part of your life?
Mary Jo, feeling hungry….!
Anne here. When I was trying to decide what to blog about today, I glanced through the list of topics sent in by wenchly readers over the years, looking right back to the earliest of those lists. So many of those early questions were from aspiring authors asking about the publishing process, how to get an agent, tips for catching an editor's eye, which conferences were you most likely to meet good editors —and many more.
Those were the days of relative certainty — there was a process for getting published, a clear pathway, with steps. Now there are so many ways to get published that the difficulty is in choosing which one to take -- to seek traditional publishing, or to go with a small digital-first press (many of which are unproven) or to self-publish.
There's no longer the hierarchy there was: many major traditional bestsellers are also self-publishing and publishing through small e-presses — witness the wenches.
And there are no experts: what works for one writer might prove a dismal failure for another. Trickier still, what works well for the first book by an author might not work for the second or third. So many writers I know are trying everything, flinging all kinds of books — like literary spaghetti thrown at various walls, to see what sticks.
It's just as tricky for readers, I suspect.
The thing that traditional publishers did that authors could not was to distribute the books, getting them into bookshops across the country, across the world, getting them into the places where readers could buy them.
With the advent of e-books, distribution is no longer the big issue: anyone can upload a book to the web and pretty much anyone in the world can buy or read it (unless there is a geographical restriction agreement in place.)
The issue now is visibility. With half the world and their dog (this is mine) writing and uploading their stories, the e-book market is utterly swamped with every kind of book -- well written, badly written, in every genre you've ever read and plenty more you've never even heard of.
How to choose? It used to be that a publisher was a gatekeeper — their imprint on a book was a guarantee of quality. A book might not be to your taste, but it would be well-written and well-produced. Now e-published books — whether self-published or put out by a digital-first-press — vary widely in the amount of care and attention each book is given in preparation. I've seen self-published novels published to an immaculate standard (better than some traditional publishers) and I've seen sloppy, slapdash, ill-edited novels published. And again, how is the reader to know?
Visibility is all. Because of this, authors (no matter how they're published) are under more and more pressure to promote and market their books themselves. And market. And market. So we're all madly tweeting and FBing and Tumblring and Wattpadding and blogging and making a lot of noise. To what effect? We don't really know. Everyone's looking for The Key.
Currently the hot topic for author promotion is newsletters. At the Romantic Times Convention the other day I'm told authors were advised by marketing experts and publicists not only to have a regular newsletter, but to put them out more frequently — not just monthly (as many do) but weekly. Or even more often.
I'm guessing there was a collective sigh from the authors in the audience. But it's not only people at RT who are being told this — it seems to be the current marketing advice to a wide range of authors — some wenches included. As well as contributing to the word-wenches newsletter, I have a newsletter of my own, but I usually only send out one or two issues a year, generally to announce the publication of a new book (The book on your left will be out in June) or some other particularly newsworthy event.
So now I'm wondering — and I'm asking you readers to help us out here, please.
Would you like weekly newsletters from your favorite authors?
Do you subscribe to many author newsletters?
Do you actually read the newsletters you currently get? (I confess I don't — I often just register that author X has a new book out, order it, and then delete the email.)
What attracts you in a newsletter?
Someone who leaves a comment will win a prize from me. And if you'd like to subscribe to my newsletter (she says shamelessly) it's on the left-hand column on my website. And the word-wenches newsletter subscription is at the top of this page.
Pat here with another question from our Wench mailbox
Francie Stark wins a free copy of one of my books by asking:
"Dear Word Wenches, can you tell me the difference between 90's historical romance novels and 21st century historical romance novels. I've been snooping around and reading comments from books clubs and this is a hot topic. I've been out of the business for 20 years--not that I ever had much more than my toe in it. Honestly, I lost heart for writing and even reading historical romance so I'm really in the dark. I did pick-up a book by one of the reigning queens of the genre and I tried to read it, but it was so pink and fluffy. No meat. I couldn't stay with it. I've been sitting in the middle of the second draft of a novel for ten years and it will not leave me alone. It's like a dragon egg I pick-up and stare at, knowing that I must build a pyre and take it into the fire before it will hatch--or not. Maybe it doesn't need to be hatched. Based on what I've read it's very 90's. But I write the way I write and my stories aren't pink of fluffy. What to do, what to so... Any comments would be appreciated."
Anne replies:
Francie, the other wenches will probably explain in more detail the difference between then and now —I'm not so clear on it because I pretty much only discovered the American-published historical romance novels in the late 90's; they weren't in most Australian bookshops. Still aren't. So I read a lot of authors out of any kind of chronological order, discovering some twenty years after their books were published.
What I will say, however, is I don't think you should dwell on the difference at all. Readers are always looking for something a little bit different from what they've been reading lately, and a lovely big meaty historical novel would, I'm sure, be a refreshing change after a diet of entertaining fluff. We all crave variety, and just because publishers tend to jump on bandwagons and follow trends doesn't mean writers have to. In this brave new age of publishing, authors can write the books of their heart and sell them direct to readers in the marketplace, and readers, hungry for something fresh and different, are snapping them up.
If we learn anything from history, it's that things go in cycles, and that what was old will eventually become new again. And authors are proving it by self-publishing their old books (from the 90's and earlier) and earning money from them. So I say dive into the world of your story, hatch your lovely dragon's egg with all the care and attention you can lavish on it, and then release it into the world. You never know, you might start a movement back to the big meaty historical. And readers will be grateful.
Mary Jo says:
A key factor is that those earlier historical romances were longer. My first historical romance contracts specified 125,000 to 150,000 words. (My longest book was Veils of Silk at 145K.) Now most books are 100,000 words or less. Fewer words means fewer subplots, fewer secondary characters, less time for adventuring around the world.
There are reasons why this has happened. A shorter book costs less to produce, and more books fit into the sales pockets in those stores that still carry print books. Perhaps even more important, in our very busy world with way too many things to look at, a lot of people prefer shorter books. Also, as traditional publishers struggle to stay afloat in a changing business, they prefer to put out books that are likely to attract the most readers, which often means books that are very closely focused on the romance.
But none of that really matters now that we have an indie publishing market where all kinds of books can be published. Selling them is another, more difficult matter, but from a creative point of view, there is no reason not to write what you love. Because in a diverse marketplace, there will be readers who love what you love, and great stories never go out of style!
Andrea says:
I get a little flummoxed trying to think of an answer for this question. The reason is, it seems to imply that there is a standard "model" for each type, and I don't think that's the case. Yes, many books tended to be longer in the 90s, and Mary Jo explains the practical reasons why this is no longer the norm. But as for tone and plot and characters—sorry, but I think both eras have a wide range of styles and voices. Along with readers who appreciate that variety. I didn't start reading romance until the late 90s, and coming from Austen and Heyer, I was delighted to discover the Signet Regency line (where I first read Mary Jo and Pat!) I loved the stories, which seemed to me to be echoing that traditional spirit. Yes, there were the big lush historicals, but frankly I didn't find them appealing.
As for today, the range is even wider. Light and fluffy, dark and brooding, intense and erotic—readers should have no trouble finding a niche that appeals to their tastes. And technology has, of course, made it much easier for authors to write the book of their heart, as they have ways of reaching an audience that didn't exist in the 90s. (Marketing them is not an easy challenge these days, but that's a whole other subject.)
The point is, readers have always been open to all sorts of stories. Trying to gauge hot trends or what voice is "popular" is the last thing I would advise to any author. Writing is hard enough—you have to be passionate about your story, your characters and your own narrative style. As Shakespeare said, "Be true to thine own self . . ."
Pat here:
As others have said, write what you need to write—just be far more careful of your craft than we were back in the day! Today's books are much more tightly structured and IMO, better written. I'm working on one of my late 80's books right now—over 150k words! We're not talking just sweeping settings, but sweeping sentences. I'm usually able to cut out 20k words simply by eliminating head-hopping and directional phrases ("He followed her into the room and shut the door behind him" becomes— "He followed her and shut the door." Amazing, huh? What were we thinking?)
The biggest difference, to me, is that back in the 90s, we could write anything. I wrote westerns, Civil War, American Revolution, as well as Regency . And then I started on paranormal romance. Today, so much of historical romance is light English Regency that everyone is trying to claim a particular niche of the same pie. So if pink and fluffy sells well, everyone tries to find a way of making their own claim on pink and fluffy.
But not everyone is writing light. Stretch your boundaries beyond the old names from the 90s—the market is enormous. Surely you've read the wenches! Some of us are lighter than others, but we all write character-driven stories with meaty plots—not pink and fluffy. The difference between then and now is simply one of word count, as Mary Jo says. Fewer characters, shorter plots, less running around the countryside and description. In focusing point of view, we've also focused the story to make it tighter, more intense, more emotional, and hopefully, more satisfying. Although I love humor and have nothing against pink and fluffy either. There's a mood for every book.
If you have your heart set on writing the sagas we used to write—do so. Big 5 publishers might not be interested, but there are readers out there for every book written. Call it a romantic historical, give it scope and depth, make it as dark and intense as you like—and you'll find there are as many readers now as there were then for a really good book.
What do wench readers think? Is the romance market being inundated with "pink and fluffy"? Do you prefer light? If not, who are current authors who give you the grit you like?
Are you tired of sex?
Ummm, wait— that didn't come out quite right! Allow me to start over . . .
Cara/Andrea here, and what I meant to ask is, are you growing a little tired of all the sex scenes in romance novels these days? I've recently been seeing a number of reader comments on various online forums saying that all the gymnastics are becoming . . . boring. The complaint seems to stem from the perception that too many books appear to be simply stringing together a number of hot bed scenes with little attention paid to characterization or story plot.
Joanna here. I've posted before with all my thoughts and beliefs and outright speculation that Regency folk of the middling and upper sorts were probably as cleanly and nice smelling as most folks nowadays. That is not an impeccable standard, as anyone who takes public transportation will testify. But it's also not the universal reek-to-heaven some folks think it must be.
So let's wander into the question of oral hygiene, shall we?
(And I promise not to go into anything even vaguely touching upon tooth-ache and tooth-drawers and suchlike horrors because some of you are sitting down with a nice croissant and café au lait and you do not deserve to be harrowed to your marrow.)
What did Regency folk use as toothbrushes?
Well ... They used toothbrushes.
Taking into account the sad fact that our Regency folk didn't have plastic and were therefore unable to make their dental implements in screaming magenta and electric green stripes, they still did pretty well. The business end of the toothbrush was of stiff boar bristles or — like this one over on the right — horsehair. The handles were ivory, wood, or bone, carved for a firm yet graceful grip.
These ordinary details of life often don't leave much archeological evidence and the folks producing written records at the time weren't interested enough to tell us, but it's likely common folk cleaned their teeth with a bit of cloth and some water and maybe a bit of salt. Or they cut sticks from the branches of a tree or bush or dug up some likely fibrous roots. They'd pound or chew one end of the little stick ragged and brush-like to make quite a fine tooth-cleaning tool. This is still a traditional method worldwide and works just fine.
Given a choice between a fancy boar-bristle toothbrush used for months or years and a nice bit of sassafras twig I'd cut fresh every day or so, I think I'd go for the methods of the poor.
Though the root and twig method was also used by the wealthy. Oh yes. Here to the left is a silver box from Paris used for storing your tooth-clean roots of marshmallow, licorice or lucerne (which in this case is not the city but Cytisus proliferus, a "small, spreading evergreen tree".)
How to Make an Excellent Tooth Brush:
Procure two or three dozen of the fresh roots of marshmallows, and dry them carefully in the shade, so that they may not shrivel. They must be chosen about as thick as a cane, and cut to five or six inches long, then with a mallet bruise the ends of them very gently, for about half an inch down, in order to form a brush. Then take two ounces of dragon's blood, four ounces of highly rectified spirit, and half an ounce of fresh conserve of roses, and put them in a glazed pipkin or pan, to dissolve over a gentle fire. When dissolved, put in your prepared mallow-roots, stirring them to make them take the dye equally. Continue this till no moisture remains in the vessel, when the roots will be hard, dry, and fit for use. If you take care of them, they will last you a considerable time.
The Complete Servant: Being a Practical Guide to the Peculiar Duties and Business of All Descriptions of Servants, Knight and Lacey, 1825
(Dragon's blood, you will be relieved to know, just means 'a red dye'. It could come from any number of sources, though probably not giant saurians.)
Which brings us to toothpaste. Or, as they called in the Regency era, tooth powder, which is was. Powder, I mean. The limitless ingenuity of mankind did not bring forth commercial mushy toothpaste till Victorian times. Our earlier folk had to dip their toothbrush into a jar or box of powder or sprinkle it upon the bristles.
The powder would likely contain some abrasive element like finely ground eggshell, bone, gypsum, oyster shell, chalk, brick dust, ash from burnt bread or burnt snuff. Some Regency tooth powders were called 'coral powders' because they were made with ground coral. The second element would be an astringent and cleansing element like salt, shaved soap, myrrh. Maybe they'd toss in a ground herb like licorice or mint (for that minty-fresh taste).
TROTTER'S ORIENTAL. DENTIFRICE or ASIATIC TOOTH POWDER, has been for twenty years recommended, a single box is a sufficient quantity to ascertain its efficacy and virtues; being acknowled by the most respectable medical authorises, used by many and commended The Powder cleanses and beautifies the teeth, sweetens the breath, possesses no acid that can currode the enamel, and puts a beautiful polish on the teeth.—From its astringently it strengthens the gums, eradicates the scurvy, (which often proves the destruction of a whole set of teeth) and preserves sound teeth from decay.
It is sold wholesale and retail.
La Belle Assemblée, Volume 2
And our Regency folk — being inventive — did create their own do-it-yourself toothpaste.
Take of fresh conserve of roses, 2oz the juice of half a sour lemon, a little very rough claret, and 6 ounces of coral tooth powder. Make them into a paste, Which put in small pots; and if it dry by standing, moisten with lemon juice and wine, as before.
Do you make any of your own health and beauty aids? Your own soap? Maybe some face splash from the herb garden? Some lucky commenter wins any one of my books she chooses.
Nicola here. Today I'm talking about telling stories through tapestries as last weekend I went to the unveiling of our wonderful Parish Textile Map. I love story telling in all its shapes and forms, whether it is through words, paintings, music or any other medium and ever since I was a small child on a trip to France and saw the Bayeux Tapestry I have been entranced by the way that people used textiles as a way of telling a story.
Most historic tapestries were luxury items, created in specialist workshops and used for both decoration and warmth. The first tapestries were entirely hand made although with the introduction of a new type of loom in the 14th century, tapestries became more common. Often they were produced for the nobility to commemorate an event or tell a particular myth or story.
The grand daddy of all tapestries is of course the Bayeux Tapestry dating from the 11th century and telling the story of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 although there are records of Scandinavian tapestries dating from even earlier.
Technically speaking the Bayeux Tapestry is a strip of embroidered linen rather than a tapestry and it is unusual in that most art from this period was religious whilst the Bayeux Tapestry tells the story of a very particular and significant political event. It is over 200 feet long and consists of fifty scenes, charting the story of the Conquest over a period of 2 years, telling what happened at the Battle of Hastings and probably originally culminating with the crowning of William I. The Bayeux Tapestry was probably made in England, rather than France, on the orders of William the Conqueror's half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux. There are also Latin captions explaining the events in each scene and it is a story told very much from the victor's viewpoint and with a Norman bias. Every story has its standpoint!
Another famous set of tapestries is the Unicorn series, a set of seven tapestries, which hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and date from the 15th century. Known as the Hunt for the Unicorn, they were woven in wool, silk, and metallic thread and are some of the most beautiful and complex works of art to survive from the Middle Ages, with their colours still rich and vibrant today.
Tapestry making never really went out of fashion. By the 19th century there was a larger demand for the decorative arts from the emerging middle classes and the development of tools, materials and dyes made the cheap reproduction of existing designs much easier. This in turn led to various artists worrying about the survival of the original craft of tapestry-making, which they felt was under threat from poor quality reproductions made with modern machinery. Members of the Arts and Crafts Movement in England re-introduced the traditions of medieval craftsmanship. William Morris established a tapestry factory at Merton Abbey in Surrey. At the same time there was also a revival of tapestry production in Scandinavia and Central Europe, inspired by folk traditions.
It's wonderful to see the traditions of tapestry living on in different forms in the modern day. A few years back I blogged about the tapestry made in Fishguard, in Wales in 1997, which commemorates the last invasion of Britain in 1797. You can read about the Fishguard Tapestry and the last invasion here. Like the Bayeux Tapestry it puts a military expedition in a broader context and paints a very vivid tale.
The Great Tapestry of Scotland is another wonderful modern tapestry that records the history of Scotland from the end of the Ice Age to Andy Murray's win at Wimbledon in 2013. Like the Bayeux Tapestry it is created on embroidered cloth and it was the work of over 1000 volunteer stitchers. It shows both significant events in Scottish history and also gives a flavour of Scottish culture, and is a broad,sweeping and fabulous tale of a nation.
And so to our own local textile map, which is on a slightly smaller scale but is equally exciting. It grew out of a community arts project and involved 97 members of the village. The first step was for an artist to put together an initial draft map using photographs he had taken of the buildings in the village. Each component of the map was identified numerically and individual packs were put together containing a photograph, guidelines, stitching tips and a timetable of workshops to help those (like me) who were novices in the art of tapestry making. At the workshops we learned about canvas stitches and machine embroidery, drank tea and coffee and made friends! Stitching took over village life – pieces were cross-stitched, tent stitched, embroidered, knitted and appliquéd. The background had a Hessian backing, a cotton lining, wadding and a top collage of green and blue cotton to represent land and sky. Once all the pieces were ready they were pinned, tacked and finally stitched into place and the whole framed in oak.
One of the many things I love about the village map is that it isn't just a depiction of buildings and roads but it also tells a historical story and says so much about the community. It features houses that date from the 15th century to the 21st century. It shows the pub and the church and the farms but it also features the birds, the flowers, the pets, the postman and the morris dancers! It's a wonderful depiction of life in an English country village in all its richness, told through a vivid collection of pictures and textiles.
Have you ever taken part in a community project like this, or do you have a favourite tapestry you've worked on or seen? What is your favourite way of story telling – through words, pictures, or other means?
Jo here. With a royal birth in the news, I thought I'd give a brief run down of the situation in late 1817 when there was a royal succession crisis because of a birth that did not go well.
I write my Company of Rogues books along a time line that started in 1814, and though I've gone slowly I've arrived at the great tragedy of the death of Princess Charlotte in childbirth in November 1817. It can hardly be ignored, so it forms part of the plot of next year's book, The Viscount Needs a Wife.
People sometimes think that death in childbirth was common in the past. It was more common than now, but not so much so that the death of a young, healthy woman and her baby was taken in stride. The nation was plunged into a genuine and almost manic mourning that continued well into the next year. Court mourning plunged the aristocracy into black, and nearly everyone wore sober colors, black arm bands and similar signs of grief. There were many ramifications, but I'll save those for another post.
In addition to a human tragedy, Charlotte's death created a succession crisis.George III and Queen Charlotte did not shirk their duty. They had fifteen children, and in 1817 twelve were still alive. However, Charlotte was the only legitimate grandchild. The king's offspring were not young. He'd been on the throne for nearly fifty years, and the youngest surviving child was Sophia, born in 1777. At forty, she wasn't a great hope for the next generation, and in any case she wasn't married.
There were seven sons, however. That should solve it. Hum. Let's consider them.
1. George, the Prince Regent. He had been separated from his wife Caroline, Charlotte's mother, from not long after the wedding. Not able to marry.
2. Frederick, Duke of York had a career in the army. He had dutifully married in 1791, to Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia but there were no children. This union was also unhappy and they lived apart. Not able to marry.
(Part of the reason for these failed marriages and the succession crisis in general was the Royal Marriage Act of 1772 that controlled who a royal person could marry. (Full details here.) George III insisted on this to prevent his sons from making unsuitable marriages, but the result was that they mostly chose not to. Basically, only Protestant princesses were likely to meet with the king's approval.)
The picture is of Charlotte with her two oldest sons.
3.William, Duke of Clarence served in the navy in his younger years. He simply settled for a mistress, and lived with an actress, Mrs. Jordan, for twenty years having ten children -- the Fitzclarences. All illegitimate, however, so not in the line of succession.
4. Edward, Duke of Kent. Army. He, too had a long-term mistress, Madame de St. Laurent. They had no children together.
5. Ernest, Duke of Cumberland. Army. He actually fell in love and married in 1815, though it was a messy affair as Duchess Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was married when they fell in love. Her husband's death seemed somewhat convenient and in addition the queen didn't like Frederica. All the same they did marry, but reproduction didn't go well, and by November 1817 they had no children.
6 Augustus, Duke of Sussex. He was the family rebel, later supporting what we might call socialist causes. His rebellious streak led to a marriage in 1793 that contravened the Royal Marriage Act. They had children, but the marriage was annulled because of the Act, so the children were not in line to the throne. He separated from his unauthorized wife in 1801, but didn't marry until 1831, after his first wife died. So presumably he considered himself married and was not willing to marry suitably in 1817, even if his nature would allow it.
7.Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge. Army. He had no particular relationships.
I've colored red the three able and willing to marry, and they did set to it, trawling German princesses for likely candidates. The Duke of Cambridge was married in June, to Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel. Kent and Clarence had a double wedding ceremony on the 11th of July 1818. Kent married Victoria, the Dowager Princess of Leiningen, and Clarence married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.
The Duke of Cambridge had three children.
Clarence's marriage was happy, but his wife had a number of miscarriage and no surviving children.
Kent sired only one legitimate child before dying in 1820, but as he was the oldest of the three, his daughter eventually became Queen Victoria.
The Crisis
But for a while after the death of Charlotte into late 1817 the uncertaintly over the succession shook the country. The king was a mad old man expected to die at any moment. The Regent was not a well man and could also die. In addition, his extreme grief over his daughter made people begin to wonder if he might go mad, too. There were brothers to succeed him, but all middle aged men. What if none of them managed to sire a child who survived?
There were a number of foreign Protestants with a claim, but it was messy, and the British people wouldn't welcome a foreigner again. The Hanoverians who'd arrived with George I hadn't been a completely happy experience. In addition, the country was already in turmoil because of the depressed economy and social unrest which at times approached rebellion and revolution. (This forms part of my April book, Too Dangerous for a Lady.) Many feared that a series of royal deaths could tear Britain apart.
To add to that, there were still Stuart claimants -- Jacobites. Might they leap into uncertainty to create a civil war? The old enemy France would be happy to exploit that.
A stressful time, but that makes it an interesting background for a book. And of course, by 1819 there were a number of Hanoverian heirs, born in Britain and ready to serve.
This whole situation is additionally interesting to me because my Malloren series begins shortly after George III was crowned, and includes mentions of the births of his older children. It feels as if I've been following the family. No one then had any premonition of the troubles to come. In fact, a young king, born in Britain and speaking English as his native tongue seemed a bright hope for the future.
by Mary Jo
This week, Kensington has reissued my early romance, The Bargain, which got me to thinking about the long journey this story has. It started life as my third Signet Regency, The Would Be Widow. I was very much a neophyte at the time, and several of my writing traits first appeared here.
To begin with, I connected the story to my first book, The Diabolical Baron, by making the hero of The Baron the best friend of the hero of the Widow, and a key player in the story. Without even realizing it, I had started writing a community, and that has served me well as those books turned into a de facto series, and series are really popular now!
Secondly, this was the first book where there was a difficult man who proved unexpectedly interesting at the last moment, so naturally I had to immediately write a book about him. (The man was Rafael Whitbourne, the Duke of Candover, and his book was The Controversial Countess, later revised as Petals in the Storm, about which more anon. Reggie Davenport in The Diabolical Baron was a similarly problematic character who ended up with his own book: The Rake and the Reformer, now The Rake. But I didn't write that for another year or two.)
The Would Be Widow is a perfect title for this story: a young woman needs to marry by her 25th birthday in order to secure her inheritance and she doesn't want to marry at random when she has her eye on a man she really wants, and he seems interested in her, too. It's not long after Waterloo, so she visits a London military hospital to see a friend, and is struck with the brilliant idea of marrying a dying man, which will fulfill the terms of her father's will while soon freeing her to pursue the man she wants.
The fourth Earl of Cromarty was buried with all the pomp and dignity due his rank. The village church bell tolled solemnly as he was laid to rest in a misty rain, all of the male members of his household dressed in black and suitably somber. The late earl had been a handsome, forceful man, fair of mind and quick to laugh. His tenants had all been vastly proud of him.
Chief mourner was the earl's only child, Lady Jocelyn Kendal. At the post-funeral gathering, she performed her duties with impeccable grace, her pale perfect features still as a marble angel under her sheer black mourning veil. She and her father had been very close.
This would be Lady Jocelyn's last official act at Charlton Abbey, since her Uncle Willoughby was now the owner. If she resented the fact that she had been transformed from mistress to guest in her childhood home, she concealed her feelings.
Though a few elderly ladies might think her independent streak would be considered headstrong in a less well-bred girl, none of the men minded. At twenty-one she possessed more than her share of beauty and charm, and as she moved about the great hall men looked after her, and briefly dreamed.
The last ritual of the long day was the reading of the will. The family lawyer, Mr. Crandall, had come down from London to perform the duty. It was a lengthy task, with numerous bequests for honored servants and special charities.
Lady Jocelyn sat immobile in the crowd of listeners. A mere daughter could not succeed to her father's honors, but she would still inherit a substantial part of her father's fortune, enough to be one of England's greatest heiresses.
The new earl, a solemn-faced man without a tithe of his late brother's dash, listened gravely. Once it had been assumed that the fourth earl would remarry and get himself a male heir, but his experience of matrimony appeared to have soured him on that state. He had been content with his only daughter, and Willoughby was the beneficiary of that choice. Though the new earl sincerely mourned his brother, he was human enough to be glad for his elevation to the title.
The will presented no surprises—until the end. Lawyer Crandall cleared his throat, and glanced nervously at the statuesque beauty in the front row before starting to read the final provisions. "And for my beloved daughter, Jocelyn, I hereby bequeath and ordain…"
The lawyer's sonorous voice filled the room, riveting the listeners. When he finished, there was a murmur of startled voices and inhaled breath as heads turned to Lady Jocelyn.
She sat utterly still for an endless moment. Then she leaped to her feet, sweeping her black veil from her face to reveal blazing rage in her fine hazel eyes. "He did WHAT?"
For this reissue, Kensington asked if I could come up with a bit of new content. Editors don't seem to realize how difficult it is to do this if the original story is tightly plotted--it's like grafting peacock feathers on a sheep. But being an agreeable author, I thought about it, and came up with--an epilogue! So this edition of The Bargain has an epilogue that adds a bit of follow through.
But it continues to surprise me how the story of Jocelyn and David in all its variations resonates so strongly with readers, many of whom have told me the book is on their keeper shelf. This is part of the mystery of writing: we authors haven't a clue how readers will react to our stories! I know that some of my books that I love gather no special attention, while some that I think might not be as strong as I'd like are acclaimed. Definitely a mystery!
I don't worry much about such things--I just keeping inching onward through new stories, hoping for the best. But if you haven't read The Bargain and are curious, this new edition is available now. I've illustrated this blog with all of the covers the story has had, including the one for the audiobook version I produced last year.
As a special extra, between now and Sunday night, the ebook edition of the book that follows, Petals in the Storm, is sale priced at $1.99 from now through Sunday night at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. This is the story of Rafe Whitbourne, who first appears in The Bargain and became very interesting right at the end. I love an intriguing man who needs work. <G>
I'll be giving away a free copy of The Bargain to one person who comments between now and midnight Sunday. So comment away! Have you read the book already? Do you know why some books resonate with you and others don't? I'd love to know!
Mary Jo


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Ecount ERP
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With the Ecount app, you can access many of the same functionalities you have grown to love including real-time reports, ability to enter orders, create invoices, receive inventory, and much more anywhere with your smartphone or tablet.
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The app provides real-time reporting including inventory stock reports, sales reports, purchasing reports, accounts receivable and much more.
> Notice for Android 5.0 (and higher) device users:
- The Android System Webview 42.0 application has recently encountered errors since it was recently updated by Google Inc. Therefore, this may also result in errors when using the Ecount ERP App.
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- Suggested Devices: Galaxy Note 1 / Galaxy Note 2 / Galaxy S3 / Galaxy S4
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- Resolution: HD / FHD
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SAP Business One
Key features of SAP Business One for Android
• Get alerts on events, like deviations of approved prices, credit limits, or targeted gross profits
• Visualize key information about your business in real time with reports and interactive dashboards
• Create, edit, or view sales opportunities, quotations, and orders, and handle service call activities
• Manage contacts and activities; all info is synched with SAP Business One and the on-device calendar
• Monitor inventory levels and get product details, including purchasing and sales prices and photos
Note: To use the SAP Business One mobile app with your own business data, you must be running the SAP Business One application as your back-end system. You can try out the mobile app now using a demo logon.
Open ERP Mobile
- OpenERP request
- Project Task
- More usable partner, contact & product information
- GUI improvement.
- Support secure OpenERP server (xmlrpcs)
- Remember logged state
- List partner
- List product
- View partner info
- View partner contact
- View product info
- Call directly from contact view
- Email directly from contact view
- Map directly from contact view
- Cache support
We will keep working hard to complete this mobile client soon. All of your contributions are welcome.
Comarch ERP Mobile Sales
Comarch ERP Mobile Sales facilitates work of sales representatives by allowing for, among others:
• Access to full product offer, including images and descriptions as well as all trading conditions defined in ERP system,
• Access to complete history of transactions, payments and contacts with Customer,
• Processing a sales transaction of preselling type (taking orders and quotes at Customer's location),
• Processing a sales transaction of vanselling type (completing a sales transaction at Customer's location) by issuing invoices, receipts and sales order releases along with printing documents (on a regular basis or on a receipt printer),
• Debt collection – settling of receivables and payables and possibility to control credit limit,
• Printing documents on mobile thermal printers or with customer's signature on laser printers,
• Sending PDF files with printouts of documents,
• Effective planning and completion of business appointments with the use of appointment templates defined in ERP system and an intuitive Calendar,
• Processing many types of business appointments, which enables using the application in almost any business industry, e.g.: questionnaires, competition reports, item availability reports, taking pictures, releasing marketing materials,
• Registering meetings and phone contacts, thus supplying the Headquarters with complete information about all the actions taken towards customers,
• Completion of actions planned by a supervisor in Comarch ERP Mobile Sales Manager,
• Registering routes, selecting defined tags as well as using the messenger (available in Comarch ERP Mobile Sales + Tracking module)
The application cooperates with Comarch ERP Optima, Comarch ERP XL and Comarch ERP Altum.
The demo version provided with exemplary database allows a user for familiarizing with full functionality of the application, except for dedicated keyboard, synchronization with ERP system and online reports.
Comarch ERP Mobile Sales Manager application is destined most of all for managers, directors and regional sales managers. It can also be used by employees managing company's car fleet, who can monitor current locations of employees, preview routes the employees registered and define individual work statuses required for work reporting.
Comarch ERP Mobile Sales Manager application provides:
• Access to actions, owing to which a supervisor can optimally plan appointments of his employees, verify completed actions and preview the planned ones. By using route optimization mechanisms, a supervisor can indicate customers an employee should visit and the system will plan the optimal route and show it on the map. Moreover, it is possible to view the traffic volume, which contributes to effective planning of an action. The planned actions are completed by mobile employees in Comarch ERP Mobile Sales,
• Access to maps, that is, possibility of checking current location of an employee and analyzing the route he traveled,
• Access to the messenger which enables giving instructions or sending urgent messages,
• Access to the list of regions, customers and employees, who can be monitored and managed in an easy and fast manner.
Odoo Mobile
Odoo is a suite of open source business apps that help you growing your business. Over two million people use Odoo to grow their sales, run their operations, organize marketing activities,boost productivity and empower their human resources.
Odoo Mobile is a Mobile Enterprise Resource Planning based on Android, that enables you to access your :
Manage your warehouse and your products
Access your products everywhere
Scan the product barcode using the device's camera
Manage inventories, stock moves, deliveries, and much more
• ODOO MESSAGES : Manage your messages and to-do list.
• ODOO CONTACTS : Access your Odoo contacts book online, and update your contacts details.
• ODOO EXPENSES : Create and manage your business expenses, for example by calculating automatically your travels or taking a picture of a ticket
• ODOO TIMESHEETS : Fill your timesheets in 2 clicks while you are working on projects, tasks or contracts
• ODOO NOTES : Create and access your notes from your smartphone or tablet for sharing and collaborating with your colleagues.
• ODOO DASHBOARDS : Access your favorites dashboards in few clicks. Show,save and share them everywhere.
• ODOO SALES :Sales Management Made Easy. From quotes to invoices, in just a few clicks.
Take control your commercial flows in the application.
Major Features :
1) Modular application (Same approach as Odoo apps)
2) Multiple Accounts Support
3) Widget for Expenses and Timesheets
4) Synchronize your Address Book and Agenda
Supported OpenERP Version: OpenERP 7.0+
Supported Odoo Version: Odoo 8.0+
Don't know Odoo yet (OpenERP) ? Discover it now : https://demo.bhc.be
Write feedback on : firstname.lastname@example.com
Want to get a custom Odoo(OpenERP) module developed for this Android app ? email@example.com
Odoo CRM (BETA)
Major Features:
★ Works Offline
★ Works for SaaS and Self Hosted Instances
★ Manage your day in one screen - Agenda
★ Phone call support for Incoming and Outgoing calls
★ Full access to chatter on leads, opportunity, quotes and other documents
- Extraits du code de la construction et de l'habitation
- Décret 95-260
- Arrêté du 25 juin 1980 modifié
- Arrêté du 22 juin 1990 modifié
- Arrêté du 23 juin 1978
- Arrêté du 2 août 1977
- Dispositions particulières
- Etablissements spéciaux
- Instructions techniques
- Avis de la Commission centrale de sécurité
- Circulaires
L'application PRV ERP a été conçue par un préventionniste, spécialiste sécurité incendie depuis plus de 15 ans dans un bureau de contrôle bâtiment agréé, dans le but de pouvoir consulter la réglementation rapidement aussi bien au bureau qu'en déplacement.
Facile d'accès et intuitive, cette application suit l'organisation logique des textes réglementaires.
Simple mais efficace, elle vous permettra d'emporter avec vous plus de 1600 pages de textes règlementaires que vous pourrez consulter du bout de votre doigt en moins de 10 secondes…sans connexion internet.
La mise à jour de l'application PRV ERP est assurée dès la parution d'un nouveau texte ou commentaire.
mERP (Odoo mobile)
- All customizations to Odoo modules and even custom modules are available on mERP immediately*
- Settings and data automatically moved from Odoo into your android device.
- Supporting Odoo version 6.1, 7, 8 on self-hosted instances and SAAS connection.
- Fast interface with new Dashboard
- Digital Signature integration (http://bit.ly/merp-digital-signature)
- Barcode Scanner integration (http://bit.ly/barcode-scanner-integration)
- Simple UI and Google Material design
- Synchronization of contacts/meetings into your phone
- Supports up to 3 devices connected to same Google Play account
- Run free demo without your Odoo server
- Send feedback to us inside the app
- Pro Version for customization and app management**
- In app license purchase***
* Logout and login back is required to apply the customizations. It doesn't matter what custom fields or menus you've added. All of them will be available on your mobile app with ZERO development costs. Just enter your Odoo server URL, login, and password.
** mERP now exists in two flavors: mERP for small companies and mERP Pro as customizable and monitored version.
mERP can be obtained from the Google Play store while mERP Pro can only be purchased either directly from merpapp.com or via one of our 50 partners.
*** Note it's a one month trial.
After 30 days trial, subscribe for €2.99/month or €29.99/year only!
Contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com or at site http://merpapp.com
Read a full review about the app here - http://bit.ly/mERP2
Odoo Messaging
Odoo Mobile Client is Enterprise Social Client based on Android, enables you to access your Odoo Inbox and groups, encourage you to updated with companies' current activities for which you are responsible.
Major Features :
- Offline Access
- Multiple Account Support
- Message with multiple file attachment.
- Widget support
- Odoo Instances (saas) Login
Supported Odoo Version: Odoo 7.0+
Write Feedback on : firstname.lastname@example.com
Post bugs on : https://github.com/Odoo-mobile/messaging/issues
Tiny ERP (Beta)
Sincroniza dados de clientes e produtos para uso off-line, possibilita lançar pedidos de venda mesmo sem conexão com a Internet.
OpenERP Client
Odoo M1
Get the right data at your fingertips - anytime, anywhere.
This app's goals:
- Work at peak efficiency with mobile app that provides fast, reliable access to data - from the mobile device of your choice. At a customer site or on the road, your team member can use our mobile app to access accounts, contacts, quotes, orders, and analytics.
- Accelerate decision making and collaborate in real time - with immediate access to data
- Empower team members with valuable insights - and the ability to create take action quickly
- Increase the return on your investment in OpenERP with more frequent mobile use
kpi.com Simple ERP
Project management tool- Enables you to add and edit projects, choose assignees.
Task management tool - Enables you to add and edit tasks, choose assignees.
Time Tracking tool – Create projects, tasks and then create time-sheets and record your time spent on your tasks.
You can now also use this app as CRM,Invoicing, Expense management.
In online version of app (http://kpi.com) you can find all of them.
Visit http://kpi.com for more information.
Odoo Notes
Organize yourself with efficient todo lists and notes. From personal tasks to collaborative meeting minutes, increase your user's productivity by giving them the tools to prioritize their work, share their ideas and collaborate on documents.
Major Features :
- New look and feel
- Fast performance
- Odoo Instances (saas) Login
- Offline support
- Reminder support
- Attachment support
- All new tags filters
Supported Odoo Version: Odoo 7.0, 8.0, 8.saas~6
Write Feedback on : email@example.com
Post bugs on : https://github.com/Odoo-mobile/notes/issues
DoliDroid (Dolibarr ERP & CRM)
This application is not a standalone program. It is a front end to use a online hosted Dolibarr ERP & CRM software (an Open-source web software to manage your business).
The advantage of DoliDroid are :
- DoliDroid is not a duplicate code of Dolibarr, but a front-end of a Dolibarr web installation, so all your online existing features are supported by this application. This is also true for external modules features.
- Upgrading Dolibarr will not break DoliDroid.
- DoliDroid use embedded image resources to reduce bandwidth usage.
- DoliDroid use internal cache for pages that should not change (like menu page)
- Connections parameters are saved. No need to enter them each time you use DoliDroid.
- Integration with your phone or other applications (Clicking on PDF open PDF reader, clicking onto email or phone launch your email application or launch Android dialer, ...)
Due to bugs into Dolibarr 3.4, all features you can use in read mode are guaranteed, however, some create or update features are disabled, like creating/editing invoice/order/proposal/contract.
With release of Dolibarr 3.5+, all features should be supported with no restrictions.
This application need Android 4.0+ and a hosted Dolibarr ERP & CRM version 3.5+ accessible by internet
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"Are you a music lover ? if so you will love this application"
"You can customize the songs as per your wish"
"do u have any favorite songs? just merge the couple of your favorite songs using Igost Mp3 Cutter & Merger "
While playing a selected portion of the audio, you can see an indicator cursor and auto scrolling waveform. You can zoom this wave and cut the song at the perfect position you want.
IGOST Mp3 Cutter & Merger Contains:
✓ Mp3 Cutter
✓ Mp3 Merger ( Mp3 Fusion Maker)
✓ Mp3 Player
By Using Mp3 Cutter & Merger You Can :
✓ Cut mp3 songs and save it in the folder ../Igost/songs
✓ Merge two mp3 files and make a fusion song.
✓ Assign it as your device ring tone,contact ring tone ,notification tones etc...
Features include :
✓You can make your own ringtones.
✓you can cut and merge the mp3 files using Mp3 Cutter & Merger.
✓you can create fusion songs.
✓cutting and merging of the recorded song is possible.
✓After merging a song you can hear the merged song in player
✓The application can be moved to SD card.
✓After saving the trimmed mp3 u will get options for using the trimmed tone as alarm tone,ringtone,notification,assign to contact and option for opening the output folder.
✓storage path of both trimmed and merged mp3 is mentioned separately (sdcard/igost/music).
✓You can access both the trimmed and merged mp3 from the home page folders (Trimmed tones & Merged tones) in the application itself.
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Language Translator
We all love travelling and sometimes we will find some difficulties in handling unknown languages ,in such situations this application will help you to translate between the languages.
Why to use IGOST language translator :
✓ Simple and attractive UI.
✓ Will help you to explore and learn multiple languages.
✓ Will help you to learn the pronunciation of multiple languages.
Features are :
✓ You can swap between the languages.
✓ Important phrases are added in templates.
✓ Default language is English.
✓ You don't have to type the language always, input the text using speech ( Voice recognition )
✓ Speech to text
✓ Text to Speech
✓ Copy ,Paste , Delete and Share Translated text .
✓ Listen to your translation
✓ Some languages do not Supports speech/voice.
✓ Share Translated text via SMS, Email, Gmail, Twitter, Facebook .
✓ Added Flags and Country name For Languages .
It Needs an Internet Connection
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Trip Planner
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✓Items can be added,edited and deleted easily.
✓Using checklist the items can be selected easily.
✓After completing a trip you can clear the data's of the previous trip in a single touch.
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Mp3 Cutter & Ringtone Maker
Mp3 Cutter & Ringtone Maker is the all in one android application in which you can cut mp3 songs, merge mp3 songs and also use as mp3 player.
Mp3 Cutter & Ringtone Maker Contains:
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✓ Mp3 Merger ( Mp3 Fusion Maker)
✓ Mp3 Player
✓ Make your own ringtones by using mp3 cutter & ringtone maker.
✓ Cut, Merge & Play mp3 files using mp3 cutter & ringtone maker.
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✓ Cutting and merging of the recorded sound is possible.
✓ Easy to select Mp3 songs for merging & trimming.
✓ Very fast merging of mp3 songs.
✓ You can use the trimmed song as your device ringtone, message tone, contact ringtone, alarm tone, notification tone etc.
✓ This mp3 cutter & ringtone maker application can be moved to SD card.
✓ From the home page select mp3 cutter for cutting mp3 songs and recorded sounds.
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✓ Storage path of both trimmed and merged mp3 is mentioned separately (sdcard/mergedtones).
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✓ This application can be used as Mp3 Fusion Maker / Mp3 Joiner
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✓ Select the songs you want to merge as track 1 & track 2
✓ You need to give a name for the output merged song.
✓ Now you can merge/join any songs by pressing the start button.
✓ After saving the merged mp3 songs you will get options for using the trimmed tone as alarm tone,ringtone,notification,assign to contact and option for opening the output folder.
✓ Storage path of both trimmed and merged mp3 is mentioned separately (sdcard/mergedtones).
✓ You can access the merged mp3 from the home page folder (Merged Tones) in the application itself.
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✓Items can be added,edited and deleted easily.
✓Using checklist the items can be selected easily.
✓After completing a trip you can clear the data's of the previous trip in a single touch.
✓You can easily schedule the Places which you are planning to visit.
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✓Loading time is very less.
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Kids Memory Game
Bird Kids Memory Game is a classic kids memory game. It will help to improve the memory skills of kids. Bird Kids Memory Game is an educational and entertaining game which keeps your kids entertained. This is a game for children of all ages, babies, pre-schoolers, school children and teens. Everyone will love this game.
Now Challenge with your Friends in Google + with Google Play Game Services and Check your Position in the Leader board World wide .
✔ Three Difficulty Level : Easy, Medium and Hard .
✔ In Easy we have given 6 tiles, in Medium we have given 12 tiles and in Hard we have given 20 tiles.
✔ Separate Leader Board and high score for each difficulty Levels.
✔ Bird Kids Memory Game will improve kids for memory recognition, concentration and motion skills.
✔ Attractive birds design, so Kids will love it.
✔ Simple Game play, Attractive user interface and sounds.
✔ Challenge your friends in your circle of Google+ Using Google Play Game Services.
✔ Remove the Ad by purchasing the in-app.
✔ Offline High Score is also Available for All Difficulty levels .
✔ Unlock the Achievements by getting a High score.
✔ Settings is available for Turning off/on the timer and Sounds.
For the Success of Every Game we need your Feedback ,send your Feedbacks to
Also send the details about the Feature request .
If you like playing Bird Kids Memory Game Please Support us by Ratting and Comments .
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Gold Live Price India
Features includes:
✓You will get Up to date price of Gold and Silver.
✓You can calculate the real time pricing and values of Gold and Silver
✓Easy and fast updation of database.
✓Application can be moved to SD card.
✓You will get the current price of gold (22ct &24ct).
✓You will get the current & previous price of silver.
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5) Chennai
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7) Kerala
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3) Hyderabad
4) Kolkata
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6) Delhi
7) Kerala
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Kids Memory Game : Toys
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The Game is remarkable in that it is easy to understand and fun to play. In fact, children of different age groups can play the games with ease. In addition to being fun and exciting, these games help improve memory of kids. As such the games can be played across different devices.
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✔ Separate Leader Board and high score for each difficulty Levels.
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✔ Attractive birds design, so Kids will love it.
✔ Simple Game play, Attractive user interface and sounds.
✔ Challenge your friends in your circle of Google+ Using Google Play Game Services.
✔ Remove the Ad by purchasing the in-app.
✔ Offline High Score is also Available for All Difficulty levels .
✔ Unlock the Achievements by getting a High score.
✔ Settings is available for Turning off/on the timer and Sounds.
✔Its a challenging and Fun Game .
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The interface of the game is simple and extremely easy to use. Different challenges in the games are presented to the user. Therefore, depending upon the level of difficulty required, the user is free to choose between easy, medium and hard options in the game. The gaming application also lets you compare your score with other players via the leader board. For kids, the application can be used as a tool to challenge friends and other users in Google+. The availability of different features in the game makes it interesting and fun to engage in.
Each level in the game comes along with different number of tiles that the user needs to match to score points. For example, when the user chooses the Easy level, six tiles will be presented. The user, on his part, has to choose set of two matching tiles to score. Once the user selects three pairs of matching tiles, he or she wins the game and scores the points.
The way the game is played across the remaining levels is the same, except for the change in the number of tiles available to match for the user. For example, in the Medium level, the user will be presented with 12 tiles. Therefore, to cross this level and to pass on to the higher level, he or she has to select 6 pairs of matching tiles. In the Hard level, the user has to match 10 pairs of tiles. Once the user has completed all the levels, he will be given the choice of either quitting the game or continuing with the level of his or her choice.
The user will also get to view his high scores across all levels in the game – Easy, Medium and Hard.
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Tic Tac Toe Free Multiplayer
Today on wards no need to waste paper and ink. It is a simple but interesting game for people in all age groups especially kids.
Igost tic tac toe game supports Single Player and Multiplier (two player) modes. So you can play this with your friends and also against Android.
The artificial intelligence of single player mode includes three difficulty levels (Easy, Medium and Hard). So you can select any of them while starting the game. We won't keep making same moves again and again.
✓ Easy Level: Recommended for Beginners, kids.
✓ Medium Level: Recommended for youngsters.
✓ Hard Level: Recommended for experts in this game.
✓ 10 different interesting game levels
✓ Good Graphics
✓ Interesting Sounds
✓ Single Player Mode
✓ Multiplier Mode ( Local & Bluetooth )
✓ Difficulty Levels (Easy, Medium, Hard)
✓ Reset Function.
To play via Bluetooth, Follow this:
1) Click the " Bluetooth" button
2) If your bluetooth is switched off the Game will ask permission to switch on the Bluetooth.
3) Click the "Make Discoverable " Button So that your device will be detected in other device .
4) One of the player clicks the "Connect to device" button,then select the second device name from the list shown ,if the device is not present in the list click on the "Scan For Device " Button.Then the device will be connected.
5) You can select Default Levels before start playing using Bluetooth Paring .
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Real Drums Play ( Drum Kit )
Now Play or Practice Drums on the move ......Also record your creative music using our record feature ....
The Real Drums Play consist of :
● Snare drum
● Bass drum,
● Hi-hat
● Tom-tom drums
● Cymbals
● Ride
● Tambourine
● Splash
● Crash
✓ Real Quality Drums Sounds .
✓ Multi Touch Functionality .
✓ 15 Drum Pads .
✓ Record fuctionality .
✓ Play in loop after Recording .
Remove Ad feature will be added soon ......
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Russian Translator
Why to use IGOST Russian Translator :
✓ Simple and attractive UI.
✓ Voice recognition.
✓ Default input language is English, you can also set your default input language in the settings .
✓ Reads loudly after translation, also the translated text is shown in English.
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Location Alert
✓Are you the one who travels often alone?.. Sometimes you will sleep right? Now u doesn't have to worry about that, location alert will wake you up.
✓If you want to buy something from the super market and in your journey even if you forget about that, just set an alert before you start your journey .Location alert will remind you before the super market reaches.
✓Do you love travelling?... IF you are the one who like to explore new places, you don't have to worry just set the places you want to go in Location alert and enjoy your journey .The alarm will rings before you reaches each preset locations.
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*You can easily manage all the locations you marked in the map.
*Pop up text about the location will appear when the alarm rings.
This Android app will helps everyone in their journey to new places without the drainage of your phones battery.
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Dot Break™ Mania
A quick +1 is much appreciated,Thank you .
Why are you just waiting ,just break the dots and challenge your friends .
Click two or more adjacent Dots or Bubbles to break it ,the more you break the more points you will get .
Try to make a group of matching dots and then break it to get more points .
In this bubble game we have two Game plays - Free Play and Level Play .
Free play
In Free play we have unlimited Gameplay and you will get Dot cash by playing Free Play .
Dot Cash is the virtual money used in this game for purchasing the powers and skipping the levels .
The more you play the more Dot Cash you will be getting.
Level Play
In Level Play we have 100 challenging levels ,in each level you need to achieve the target score in the 60 seconds time to win the game.
In level play we have 3 powers ( Timer Dot , Dot Bomb , E colour Dot ).
1.Timer Dot
This will give you and extra 60 seconds to clear the level
2.Dot Bomb
This will help you to remove dots around the selected dots .
3. E colour Dot
This will eliminate the selected colour in a single click.
Key Features of the game
✓ 100 Levels with target points.
✓ Challenge your friends using Google Play Games Leaderboard Score.
✓ Gain maximum stars in the levels and Clear Levels to Unlock Achievements For getting XP.
✓ Separate Offline Score Board for Free play and Level Play for checking your Best score .
✓In settings you can give Nickname,You can adjust Volume of Sounds and Music,you can set number of dot colours ( it will work only for Free Play ) ,you can switch on and off color blindness and Side gravity mode
✓ Some times it will be hard to recognise the colours at that time switch on the color blindness option in the settings then a symbol will be displayed inside the dot .
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Recently, Heavybit in San Francisco invited me to talk about The Top 10 Mistakes Getting to $100m ARR. While that's a great headline, really it's a bit broad so I narrowed it to my top 10 mistakes getting to the first $20m in ARR.
To make it even better, I grabbed a real-live case study to add to my mistakes — Nicolas Dessaigne, CEO of Algolia. Algolia is a hosted search-as-a-service startup has gone from essentially $0 to millions in ARR in its feart 12 months (my original post on why I invested here) and just raised $18 million from Accel on the back of that early success.
Anyhow Nicolas made plenty of mistakes himself, thus I am glad to see, not all of my Top 10. Perhaps that's one small reason he's done substantially better than I did at this stage.
If you've read SaaStr for a while you've seen most of the Top 10, but watching and hearing from them in context, updates, and with Algolia added as a case study I think is pretty interesting.
The video also includes a full transcript for those of you like me who have trouble sitting still for that long. Click on the image below or here to watch and read.


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