Last week I told you that both my editing project was off my desk and my Hannah #5 manuscript was off my desk as it had gone to the editor. My editor has emailed me to tell me she has started to work on it so I should have it back within a couple of…
My Writing Life ~ Happy New Year
It’s been a couple of weeks again since I updated this series with how work had been going, what with Christmas being last week. I hope you have had a good Christmas and a Happy New Year, whatever you have been doing. I wish for you a positive and healthy 2019. If you remember last…
Merry Christmas
Wishing my blog readers a very Merry Christmas. May it be as you wish it to be. Don’t let stress in. Relax and do things at your own pace. Enjoy the day whatever you are doing. We’re having a quiet family Christmas at home and that’s just the way I like it. Dinner and then…
My Writing Life ~ Finished First Draft
This is a catch-up post as I didn’t manage to write one last week due to a funeral, but the reality is, it is still only a week-long writing post because over the past week I have been struck down by the terrible cold virus that is doing the rounds and I have got nothing…
My Writing Life – Drained After NaNoWriMo
It’s been a quiet week as far as writing is concerned. I’m ashamed to say I don’t have much to update you on. I’d say for some inexplicable reason, but I really do think it’s because of the amount of work I put in over November and NaNoWriMo, that I have been completely wiped out.…
My Writing Life – Winning #NaNoWriMo
Last week I talked about being in need of a rest because I was so tired from working hard on my NaNoWriMo project and my editing project. Well, this week I passed the 50,000 word mark on the NaNo project! That is the word count that everyone aims for when they start at the beginning…
The 3 Books of Caroline James
Today I’m pleased to welcome Caroline James to the blog to talk about the three books that have shaped her. Caroline James has owned and run businesses encompassing all aspects of the hospitality industry, a subject that features in her novels. She is based in the UK but has a great fondness for travel and…
My Writing Life – In Need of a Rest
It’s been a mixed week this past week. I’ve both excelled in my writing goals and needed to a day off and to rest. I’ve been saying that I want to write a full novel and not just the NaNoWriMo 50,000 words this month, but I haven’t really been doing the words to advance that…
Writing Crime – Formal Identification of the Deceased
This is a short post today. It’s an important subject but there’s not a lot to say on the matter. It’s on subjects like this that you think people know what happens, but I received the question as part of my consulting service, about how the formal identification of a deceased person was carried out…
My Writing Life ~ Working With Pain
Last week was the first week of this new series, My Writing Life, and I talked about the fact that I had started NaNoWriMo as well as having another project on which I was editing. Well, I ended the week on 11,009 words which were on track as far as NaNoWriMo was concerned. It had…