Good news! My Australian book, temporarily called Cade’s Revenge, has been sent off to my editor. I’ve been working on it for five months would you believe? The longest ever. I had so many problems with it. But now all I have to do is sit back and wait!
Sit back? Not likely! My office needs a thorough spring clean. I accumulate so much stuff when I’m writing, a lot of which I never use but it’s there just in case, that I can’t see my desk for papers. Cuttings from newspapers, endless printed versions of the current book because it always reads differently on paper, bills ready to file, magazines with gorgeous men in them! Women too! The list goes on.
I also need to spend time with my husband. Whenever I’ve finished a book he always says, ‘Welcome back!’ So we’ll be going out days and doing all the things together that get pushed to one side when I’m writing.
And don’t mention the garden. It’s so overgrown. If the rains don’t stop soon it will be like a jungle before I can get into it. (It’s close to that way already) I love my garden and usually find time for it. (I’ll say this quietly so that my DH won’t hear – he can’t tell weeds from plants – at least that’s his excuse!) I write two books a year, each normally taking about three months to write, so that gives me six months free. Or so you would think.
But you know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men….
It’s finished
Interview with Nicola Marsh
It’s there! The first part of my interview with Nicola Marsh. Do go and take a look. www.nicolamarsh.blogspot.com I’m so new at this game that I’m terribly excited. I’m supposed to be polishing my Australian book but I can’t resist keep popping into my blog – as well as others – to see see how things are going. I must try putting up book covers myself – and maybe a photo or two. When I have time!
Guest interview
It’s an exciting week this week. I’m being interviewed by Nicola Marsh in her blogspot. Nicola lives on the other side of the world to me, in Australia to be precise, and has been writing for Harlequin Mills & Boon for four years now and writes beautifully crafted fun and flirty romances. She already has twenty books beneath her belt and is going from strength to strength. I’ve just finished reading her Two Week Mistress which kept me entertained from beginning to end. It’s young and fun but also has all the right elements which make it a perfect sensual read. I loved it. Do look out for her books. And please visit her blog to read my interview.
www.nicolamarsh.blogspot.com
It’s finished!
My book’s finished. Hurrah! Except that I still have to go through it with a fine tooth comb! Which takes time, but making sure everything comes together, that I haven’t repeated myself, that I haven’t left out any explanations, is a really enjoyable task. So I’m looking forward to it.
What terrible weather we’ve been having here in the UK at the moment. Rain, rain and more rain. We have a fish pond in our garden and we were afraid it would overflow and we’d end up with fish on the lawn and the patio! We’ve kept a close eye on things because we don’t want to lose any more. A few weeks ago a heron made a lovely meal out of five of our biggest koi. We have an artificial heron as a decoy but we forgot to move it around and so the heron thief got used to it. So in a way it was our own fault.
Here am I talking about losing fish when hundreds of people have lost their homes to the terrible flood waters. My heart goes out to every one of them. It must be heartbreaking to lose your personal possessions in such a way. I don’t think I could cope. I hope I never have to. Do you know what I’ve always thought I’d do if I ever had to leave my house in a hurry because of fire or flood or whatever? That I’d snatch up my latest manuscript. (not a paper version but my faithful memory stick). I can’t bear the thought of losing all those hours and hours of work.
