Working Mums and Edits

It's a good thing I checked on-line yesterday....because I discovered a wonderful article in The National (UAE) by Alice Haine...A Mother's Dilema.  The article features four different mothers and I'm one of them. You can read it here. If you scroll through the pictures at the top I'm the third one (the one with all the books behind me)....

This past week I met with my editor to discuss the edits...and despite my nerves it was brilliant. I am so excited about about them now that we have talked them through and done a bit of brainstorming. For so long as a pre-published writer I have worked hard in my own little head battling out scenarios....now I have two people (my editor and my agent) who will listen to my ideas and help me figure out which one is the best. Brilliant.

The other big news that came out of the meeting is that THE CORNISH HOUSE will be out in May 2012! Gulp.

No time to think about that...edits to do on TCH and a complete overhaul of AUGUST ROCK...

Filling The Well and Edits and Books

I haven't posted in ages...exam revision (DS1's  and DS2's) and general STUFF. However I have been to Cornwall which was glorious and it did refill my well so to speak. Below you'll see some photos I took on a walk with DS1...this walk was for my work on AUGUST ROCK (did I tell you that AR is book 2?). I also did some work on THE CORNISH HOUSE and a posted a little bit about that over on The Heroine Addicts blog here.

Also to replenish my inner resources I have been reading. First up was the biography of the writer Mary Wesley - WILD MARY by Patrick Marnham. WOW - she packed about ten lives into one.

Next up was GETTING AWAY WITH IT by Julie Cohen. Now Julie is a great friend so i suppose my view is biased but it is a fab book that deals with hard issues with such humour...her heroine is very kick ass too. I have always loved Julie's books but this one was a real step up in emotion, issues, and she made me cry (and blush too as I was reading one scene at the breakfast table when DS1 wandered in...I hasten to add I was blushing before his arrival!).

I am working my way through Stephen King's ON WRITING (enjoying it) and have just started reading the SOMNAMBULIST by Essie Fox and would be engrossed in it now but last night the edits arrived for TCH....a touch distracting....but I may just put the edits aside and enjoy the book for the rest of today....












I'll leave you with a glimpse of beauty...