ON A ROLL

So, in my last post I said I had one more project in my head - the last of three. It will need a wee bit more research before I feel ready to embark on it, but meantime another wee project has popped into my head and I have started writing this... 6000 words in already!!!!

But then I am interrupted today by an email from a publisher. This publisher, hearing I had just finished two projects had asked if they might see them. So I sent them off. And today an email back from them to say they adored 'Hope Never Knew Horizon' and would be 'thrilled' to make me an offer and they were still reading 'Hand On My Heart' but expected they might make me a two-book deal offer!!!

'Hope Never Knew Horizon' - the writing was begun on April 1st; completed on April 7th; sent to a publisher on April 9th and here we are with a possible offer on April 12th!!!

Gobsmackinglyunbloominbelievable!!!

I am understandably a little breathless.

A MONTH TO MYSELF

So, I have had a complete month at home and to myself as my wife has been travelling in India. And what have I done with that month? Good Question. 

Well, firstly I did two great book events for the launching of WITH OR WITHOUT ANGELS - one at The Golden Hare Bookshop in Edinburgh and one at Night Owl Books in East Linton... lovely shops, lovely people, lovely audiences, and lovely chat about what I do and how I do it (beats me how I do it but it's good to talk about it). I have another launch event in the planning for nearer to where I live, but more of that when details are firmed up.

And the rest of the month? - Well, I had a writing project already started and parked at 15,000 words so I got on with that and completed it at just under 60,000 words. The working title for that is 'HAND ON MY HEART' and it's something that has been in my head for some years and is built around a personal experience, though the experience is really a springboard into the fiction. Then I still had plenty of time left so another project that has been rattling about in my head for a wee while came to the surface and I got on with that. Just finished today (Easter Friday) and my wife is back on Sunday, so that's pretty neat timing. This second project is just over 40,000 and is called 'HOPE NEVER KNEW HORIZON' and is something hopeful and full of voices. Had lots of fun just spread out in the house and writing like a dervish (if ever dervishes were to write).

I have one more project to get to and that will hopefully be done by the end of this year - I am just now averaging three of these projects a year so I am well on track for this year.

Now a wee rest, I think.

(I find when I am writing that I really do feel like a writer, but if the rest periods stretch beyond a couple of months then I feel like I am not a writer again and I get antsy.)