Sunday 29 May 2022

IT'S FUNNY - FUNNY-STRANGE, NOT FUNNY HAHAHA!

 Been keeping this blog going for years now - maybe too many years. And I recently spotted that I have a follower who came here a week or so ago and I know this person does not like me! That feels funny - funny-strange, not funny-hahaha. Just quietly popped in, read a few posts then quietly left. That's allowed on the internet. I maybe do it myself a bit from time to time... 

Now I think about it, I am not really sure why I keep this blog going... it's not habit cos I don't come here often enough for that. It can't be for attention cos nobody ever comments. It might be a place for me to park things or a place to let the quiet people know that I am not dead or idle. I just don't know.

It's like putting a message in a bottle and tossing it into the sea... something hopeful, maybe. The hope though gets smaller and smaller with each passing year. Who knows, I might just take a rest from this place for a long while. Who knows.

Sunday 1 May 2022

Edits done... and something else!!!!!

Just updating news on the new book out in February next year... have completed all the edits to the publisher's satisfaction (that means the advance is winging its way to the old bank account!). Proof reading will be the next task... sometime soon maybe.

Have got permission to use photogrpahs of all the artworks for the book.

Title has been approved.

Waiting for news of a cover.

(Oh, and this week I wrote something new - another wee book, but it is something that has been nagging at me for more than a year... nearer eighteen months... and I have thought about it and made notes on it and then parked it, not feeling quite ready... did this several times actually. Then, this week, when I should have been doing other things, it spilled out. I don't usually do drafts but this feels like a first drafted piece and I know there is still some research I need to do to tie it all up... but at least the whole thing has been thrown down on paper and can't be lost now.... that was four days well spent and I suddenly feel like a writer again.)

More to follow!!!