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Three weeks & counting…

26 Friday Feb 2016

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‘You didn’t say you had no time for flowers.’

Three weeks to publication!
17 March 2016. From Honno – the Welsh Women’s Press
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7. You didn't say you had no time for flowers

The spaces in between

18 Thursday Feb 2016

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I talk quite a bit about ‘not writing.’ I don’t mean writers block – I’m either writing or I’m not – there is no blockage. I mean the times when for one reason or another, the head is distracted and there is little or nothing to be done about it. In recent weeks, with my focus almost entirely on promotion for Ghostbird, I find my writing time severely curtailed and my poor Sisters (working title – book two) languishing in a kind of creative limbo.

It goes, I am learning, with the territory. Published author friends warned me that once the book deal was signed my word count would suffer. They explained how necessary it was to enjoy myself because this ‘first time’ moment would never come again. What they didn’t fully explain was how much more than mere ‘happy dancing’ would be involved. How I would have so little time to work on my next book.

I am fortunate in that I’m being guided through the promotional minefield by an experienced and astute woman – my publisher’s marketing maven. Were it not for her, I would be floundering. Instead, I’m making progress and learning a lot along the way. In addition to the minutiae and nitty-gritty (and the excitement!) of the whole pitch to publication thing, there are guest posts to write for the blog tour and Q&As to answer. Although I love the creative challenge of this kind of writing, it’s not the same as getting on with my next story.

While I muddle through during the day and attend to business, I’m even more thankful for my crack of dawn mornings. By nature (and in spite of writing a book featuring an owl) I’m a lark. Early mornings suit me; I like the way they have no expectations, only the ones I impose. And I impose nothing. I feed the cat, make a pot of tea and return to my bed and my notebook.

These then are the spaces in between, when my mind is seduced by the sweet word birds singing snippets into the tangles of my bed hair. Pencil sharpened, I cover page after page, comforted by the knowledge that my scribbled words are there, waiting for me.

Fours weeks & counting…

18 Thursday Feb 2016

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“A ring around the moon means no end of trouble.”

Four weeks to publication!
17 March 2016. From Honno – the Welsh Women’s Press
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6. A ring around the moon

Five weeks & counting

11 Thursday Feb 2016

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“Waves of air ripple through her feathers, her wings billow and lift.”

Five weeks to publication!
17 March 2016. From Honno – the Welsh Women’s Press
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5 waves of air

Six weeks & counting (retrospectively)

11 Thursday Feb 2016

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In the excitement of the cover reveal, I forgot to post this here last week…

“There were more umbrellas in the village than cats.”

Six weeks to publication!
17 March 2016. From Honno – the Welsh Women’s Press
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4 More umbrellas than cats

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