Author, editor, drinker of tea
It's launch day for the sequel to A House of Mirrors - In Sherlock's Shadow! The second instalment of Nell Hudson's adventures is available now in ebook, and, all being well, will be out in paperback later this week. The ebook is £3.99/$3.99; paperback price to be confirmed. As usual, the book will also be available to read …
Continue reading Here she comes! It’s launch day for In Sherlock’s Shadow…
It's been a looooong time in the making, but here, finally, is the sequel to A House of Mirrors - In Sherlock's Shadow! Why did it take me so long? Well, there are a few reasons. A House of Mirrors was my first proper full-length book, and people seemed to like it quite a lot. So I was, …
Please forgive the pun-tastic title, but I can’t help it. You see, it's November, NaNoWriMo month, and other people are posting on social media and blogging about their super word counts and how far they’ve got with their stories and how they feel it’s all coming together. Normally at this stage of the year, I’d …
Hello all. The sun is shining, the sky is blue and I am feeling smug because I've written 1250 words this morning and started a new book! CampNaNoWriMo has begun. Well, it started yesterday but I was running a poetry and short story event at Stockton Heath festival, so for me today was the day. …
So Camp NaNoWriMo is over for another year. I achieved my modest target of 25,000 words on April 25 (how apt!), finishing Something Blue the next day with just over 28,000 words. Here's the graph: I was aiming for between 25 and 30K, so I'll take that. Once I got started, the writing was fairly easy, …
I finished the first draft of In Sherlock's Shadow last night, at 9.50pm GMT. That should sound more celebratory, but my overall feeling was one of exhausted relief. It may have something to do with having written 4500 words in a day, packed one of the kids for a residential trip, and taken a 7-mile walk, but …
OK, I invented FebuWriMore, but anyway... I'm not blogging as frequently, due to an increase of STUFF to do, so it was only when checking the last few posts today that I realised I hadn't actually written an end-of-January post. Maybe I did it in my head! The image at the top of the post …
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