Guest Blogger: an introduction from Alice Kahrmann, new web editor of The Good Web Guide

Dear readers,

I am your new web editor and I’m incredibly excited about my new role in bringing you the very best content from the deepest darkest reaches of the World Wide Web. Just think of me as your intrepid explorer, searching out those rough diamonds and wayward needles lost in the vast haystack that is Google.

I love this site - the tips, the features, the guest edits, but most of all the incredibly inspiring interviews with successful entrepreneurs who have seen the power of the web and harnessed it in their own right.

Suffice to say, I cannot wait to get started.

Now when Arabella (esteemed MD of the GWG) told me my first task as was to write about myself, I felt a little nauseous. I’m a writer – yes, but I write about other people – real and fictional, whilst I stay, safely ensconced behind my little white Macbook, occasionally venturing out in search of a venti soya latte.

Since I find it hard to put myself into words I thought I would share with you some of my favourite quotations instead. ‘You can tell less about a person from the words they write than the words they read,’ - so says my very wise and very old friend friend Neville. Hence, here is my biog (in quotation form).

1) “When I meet God at the end of my life,
I would but have one thing to say to him,
That I had used all the talent he ever gave me.”
– Anon.

This will be etched on my tombstone. It came in very handy when I was redrafting my first novel for the sixth time, travelling round India researching it and every time before that I started another piece of writing. It also chimed merrily the first time I saw a piece of mine published and saw my work reviewed in a national paper. Not to go all Anthony Robbins on you, but I am of the humble opinion that life is just a block of time, and I would dearly like to use every second in the pursuit of great artistic talent – both online and off.

Secondly…

2) “If only we could have two lives;
The first in which to make one’s mistakes,
And the second in which to profit by them.”
– DH Lawrence.

I’ve made a lot of mistakes – this is evident. But I really do appreciate the experience they’ve afforded me. I’m quite looking forward to that next life ☺… If only I could have more light bulb moments in this one!

3) "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."
- Oscar Wilde.

I hold my hands up – I’ve spent more than a few hours considering a comma, this blog excluded - of course.

And last, but certainly not least…

4) “There is always some madness in love,
But there is always some reason in madness.”
- Nietzsche.

Good old Nietzsche - he really knows how to sum up the more defining moments of my life to date.

And just to finish - for a bit of real biographical detail, I have a cat called Charlie, a mischievous red tabby I rescued from Battersea. I love him more than life itself.



There it is - that’s my intro, dear readers. Approximately 500 words – not all of them mine.

I wish you all, the very best year ahead.

Please contact me on a.kahrmann@thegoodwebguide.co.uk with any thoughts or suggestions you may have for the site.

I would dearly love to hear from you.