How long does it take to write a book form the initial idea to the final product? How long is a piece of string but here is my answer.
How it feels to publish a book
Next week my new book, The Last Piece, will be launched worldwide. This is the ninth time that the button has been pressed on one of my books – four times by me as an indie and five times by my publisher – and yet it doesn’t seem to get any easier!
The Class of 2020
Well, what strange times we are suddenly living in. I am fortunate enough that all my friends and family are currently well, I have food in my cupboards and a job that won’t stop paying me because of Coronavirus. I am feeling very privileged right now. But my poor children are feeling less so.
And the winner is . . .
. . . not me! You may have heard that my book Where the Story Starts was lucky enough to be shortlisted for the Romantic Novelist Association’s Contemporary Romantic Novel of 2020. You could have knocked me down with a feather when I heard. I don’t really think of myself as a romantic novelist but my book does contains three…
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Don’t look down!
This week I started writing my seventh novel for my publishers, Lake Union Publishing. . . and I would describe my current professional state as anxious. You would think that I’d have got the hang of this by now. After all, this will be the fourteenth book that I have penned in the last ten years, and whilst I would…
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