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YA romance / fantasy re-released and themed weeks for productivity!
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Hi All! Hope you're having a good day / week / month? As I'm writing this, the sun is shining on my little corner of the UK, temperatures are in the warm-ish range (though the natives would argue it's "bloody hot"!), and I'm getting on with all the tasks I'd been pushing aside for the past three to four years (busy day job + severe burnout + trying to write and publish novels = bad combo). Book news:I have re-published the paperback for my first YA novel, Beyond the Threshold (click here for more info), and it should be available everywhere you buy paper books by the second week of May! It's really exciting for me, because it's something I'd been wanting to do for months but...."see intro". Life news:I've been playing around with a different way of working, and it seems to be really working for me (while really exciting for me, it's killing my friends because I won't shut up about how much I got done!). This most likely won't be viable for most of you, but sharing anyway: I work in blocks of weeks - that's it (kind of). Put simply, instead of trying to do all the things every week (then beating myself up because I couldn't, or I was too tired, or I had procrastinated, even if it was sometimes productive procrastination), I "theme" my weeks. Lately, I've set aside one week do do my website and newsletter, another week to re-publish my first YA paperback (see "book news" above), another week to do house-stuff*, a week was set aside as a catch-all random publishing stuff, and I'm setting aside next week as a do-nothing week (that's in addition to my do-nothing Sunday). And it's been great! I'm still tinkering, but I'm finally seeing the number of tasks I have in Todoist starting to reduce, and more importantly (for me), some of the old ones disappearing. *In case you're curious, that week, I fixed my loft insulation (been meaning to do it for 9.5 years), fixed my freezer that kept icing up (for at least 8 months), fixed my toilet flush (16 months in the making), got a better credit card, applied for a new business bank account (related to the day job) etc, etc... there is still stuff to do, but essentially, I prioritised by focusing on things that would save me money and/or improve my quality of life! I'm done rambling for today, I hope you have a great rest of your day / week / month! Love, Sophie
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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...