How wonderful that we’ve managed to get through the 1,345 days which is January! Sadly, I finally lost the battle ((Not the plot?)) I lost the plot many years ago, Brackets! ((I’m saying nothing)) to the cold/flu which has been doing the rounds.
The 1st of January arrived and I’d transferred my diary ready for the start of a new year. New plans. New lists. We went for a lovely walk around a country park and watched herds of deer running around – amazing. What a treat to the new year. 2nd January I woke up with a cough. Oh dear… nearly 3 weeks later I still have an annoying cough ((I have something that annoys me but it’s been around for years)) anyway, this did stop some of my plans as any energy I had needed to put into my freelance paid work. Obviously when ill, I need more coffee and more Baileys to help me recover.
Despite all this, my book sales are going very well. Over 45,000 pages read on kindle unlimited and in total over 500 books sold for just Lost the Plot ((Wow I didn’t know your mum had enough room for so many books!)) I’ve finally submitted my thriller book to a few agents and publishers so keep everything crossed they want to publish my thriller series ((Finally)) I have promised my mum it will be published at the end of the year, so if I haven’t heard anything by the end of March, I will be going firmly down the self-publishing route.
As I’ve said before, if you want to create a book you can do it for free but now I know much more about the publishing process I need to save some money to be able to publish the book to the standard I want. I’m lucky that over the years I’ve worked with editors, cover designers, The Book Typesetters and the Fosseway Writing Crew so I have plenty of people on standby to help.
As I said, getting through my cold required lots of coffee, Baileys and rest and I was very well looked after by my other half but it helped that we’d booked a holiday to Tenerife to look forward to. Mainly this holiday is to top up my Vitamin D, so really, it’s medically required! ((Honestly, you authors will make up any old nonsense to get what you want))
Lovely readers are enjoying The Sixth Witch and I am enjoying writing for fun. The characters and story are developing well and I use my tarot cards to help me make decision on the names and story lines and it’s working surprisingly well. A few readers have suggested I publish it, we will see. For now, it’s just for fun. I will try and release a chapter on Thursday’s at 7pm. I know I’m a bit behind due to being ill ((Always an excuse!))
I’ve got itchy tiller ((This is not the blog for that, Peachy! Lord have mercy. There is sharing and OVER sharing!)) which means I’m ready to start cruising again. The canal froze over for a few weeks and we are due to leave Warwick at the end of March, but I cannot wait. If we end up having a warm spell I will be untying the ropes!
One of my best friends is treating us to a working retreat in Cornwall ((If I could drink tea I would have spat it out!)) the plan is to chat about her new business she is setting up. I have a LONG list of things to do, as well as obviously enjoying the area as much as we can. I mean, we will need to have brainstorming sessions, with a coffee walking along the coast, it is a retreat!
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Hopefully some exciting news to share soon. Have a good month.
Clair x
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