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November round-up: Exclusive first 3 chapters of my new cozy mystery!
November is always a busy month, and this year was no exception. Between drafting the new novel, getting A Slice Of Mystery ready for publication, and promoting my back list for Black Friday, all that while travelling and fighting a cold, I'm glad to see December just around the corner. The new novel (tentative title: Two Sparks Of Mystery) is progressing, not as fast as I wish, but the first draft will be complete in the next couple of weeks. After that, it will need a month of resting time (just like proving bread!), and I'll tackle revisions and edits in January and February. The scary bit is that I really should start work on that cover now, when the cover for A Slice Of Mystery was only just finished! Talking of which, I'd promised you a sneak peek... Do you like it?! And... I'm also ready to share the first three chapters with you! Now, the usual disclaimers around formatting and typos apply, and some words may change between now and publication day (I always have a "genius" idea right at the last minute!), but it's here! Can you tell I'm excited? Because I am!!! Click here (link removed - subscribers only) to download, and do let me know what you think. I'm hoping to share it with the rest of the world next month, once I have had a chance to set up the pre-order links, so this is exclusive to my mailing list ( this means you!!!) at the moment.
As expected, this month has been really bad for my TBR pile - not much time or energy to read, and I'm visiting friends and adopted family in the US for Thanksgiving... what's the link you ask? Easy - lots of great secondhand bookstores, with amazing Black Friday deals - my suitcase is full!
Not much to report. Novembers are always full on writing, which means no cooking (that's when the batch-cooking frenzy of October comes in handy - I eat out of the freezer!), and not much downtime for hobbies etc. The good thing about spending a couple of weeks in the US is that my writing group is here, and quite a few members have become close friends over the years, and my college friends are here too, so, paradoxically, I have a richer social life in November than any other month of the year!
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Neurodivergent author who has always been tagged at weird (but why be normal when you can be weird?) and universally acknowledged as a troublemaker. Subscribe and be the first to know about sales, new releases, and events. PS: You'll also get some random snippets of what happens to be tickling my AuDHD brain that day...
Hi All! If you're new, welcome! It makes me so happy to have you here, you have no idea! I send this newsletter just once a month, on the last Friday of the month. Of course, I'm hoping you'll stick around, but if you don't want to, you can unsubscribe right here. I'll be sad to see you go, but I understand, we all get way too many emails on any given day. That said, without further ado, let's dive in! Book news: Let's talk about how you can't make everybody happy: I've never considered...
Hi All! Hope you're having a good day / week / month? I'm not one for chit-chat, so let's dive in! First of all, welcome! A lot of you are new to this newsletter, and it makes me so happy to have you here, you have no idea! If you're wondering how you got here, chances are high you downloaded the first 5 chapters of my upcoming cozy mystery, A Slice Of Mystery, on this page. If you missed out on the download, here it is! I send this newsletter just once a month, on the last Friday of the...
Hi All! Hope you're having a good day / week / month? I'm not one for chit-chat, so let's dive in! Book news: I started my first proofread expecting to find a few typos (and I did), but not things that I thought I'd edited in the previous draft! I guess that's why we (authors) proofread, again and again, until we're sick of the story (but we still love it, too... it's complicated!). The pre-orders for A Slice Of Mystery are officially open (or at least I pressed the button... some retailers...