Quick News Roundup
I’m still shuffling from doctors to hospital and back again while ingesting various chemicals and being scanned for things. CT scan yesterday, in which they tried to put a cannula in me in three different places and my veins played hide and seek. Back for another day of being sedated on the 4th of November… So, normal life has still not resumed.
On the plus side I had an absolutely gorgeous review of Blessed Isle today:
Which can’t be bettered
I am half way through writing Trowchester Blues, at a wordcount of 36K, which means that it seems well within reach to plan to finish it during NaNoWriMo. We have here the ex-cop falling for the not-quite-ex-enough con, both of whom are mature gentlemen in their forties. I remember the mid-life crisis up close and personal, and sometimes it’s nice to write characters who are closer to your own age.
But the most exciting thing going on at the moment is the imminent release of Too Many Fairy Princes described by Publisher’s Weekly as an “effervescently charming fantasy romance”
It’s due out on the 5th of November, which is fortunately a day on which I’m not due to be sedated, huzzah! I can’t wait 🙂
Remember remember the 5th of November,
nefarious fairies and plots.
The Queen has her two-bore and she’ll always be sure
she welcomes those goblins with shots.
Well, life is certainly mixed for you at the moment! So sorry that you’re still unwell and being investigated. But what a lovely reveiw! And I like the sound of Trowchester Blues very much.
Good luck with your fairy princes!
I’m sure I don’t wish more than you do that the doctors would find out what’s going on and fix it, but I still keep adding in my best for you to be well, and I will keep doing so until normal life has returned. On the other side of the coin, it’s lovely to see good things happening. That was a wonderful review, and so true. I hope people will take the recommendation and discover what your readers already know, how great your writing and stories are. Thank you for the reminder about Too Many Fairy Princes so I can get that pre-ordered. I hope you’ll spend its release day only thinking about the readers like me who are immersed in Dave and Kjartan’s story!
Thank you for keeping us updated.
Thanks HJ 🙂 I’m glad you like the sound of Trowchester Blues. I’m having much more fun writing it than I thought I would. It’s nice to have your own town in which you can put all the things you like, and it’s not as though other authors haven’t done it like that rather than try to replicate a real place.
My fingers are crossed for TMFP. I gather fantasy is not a particularly popular genre, so I don’t expect too much. But I did enjoy writing that too, so it’s all good 🙂
Thanks Carolyn! Yes, I really hope they either find something wrong which they can fix, or at the very least they allow me to go back on the iron supplements so that I can manage it. Still, it’s great to have good things happening in the writing world. It’s funny, when I wrote Blessed Isle I thought I was taking a big risk, doing it in the diary format, but people seem to have loved it. I should probably do more like that! It was certainly easier to write than third person.
Hee! Thank you for the preorder. I really hope you enjoy it. Though I feel like I ought to warn you that Dave is now called Joel. My editor felt that having a Dave and a Drake was too confusing for everyone, and as I’d made such a big deal about Drake’s name suiting him, Dave was the one that had to go. She was right, of course!