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Another 5 STAR review

Just have to share it with you all...

Thank you Tinkertoo... I love it!

Just to let you know - I'm back

Gosh, who would have thought two weeks could pass so quickly. Even quicker than usual. 
Quest completed!
  We have found the dragon!
How was our holiday? I'll give you my full report in the following days. I promise. 
Now, back to work...

Going on holidays ~ be (right?) back

actually in two weeks. I'm a bit of a Bedouin. I love to travel and thankfully so does my family. And that means that we choose each year a different type of holiday. 
Last year we stayed on our own coast and we had lovely time. Two years ago, we were in Croatia. A year before that in south Dalmatia also part of Croatia, etc... 
In our "short" time of being a family we visited Tunisia ~ twice and had a marvellous time. But that was before current troubles. We were in Italy. Made days trips to Austria and Croatia ~ well, as they are our neighbouring countries, no wonder. And we travelled around our country. 
Five years ago we did a 'round' trip around south, south-west and east England with our own car. Travelling through Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium - have really interesting stories with our encounters with The R0 road around Brussels, France and back. And we had a marvellous time. 
It's a long story, why we did it that way. Perhaps next time. 
Having so much fun, seeing so many things and due to a bit of a terrifying situation in Europe and the Mediterranean, my OH and I decided to return back to the UK, hoping for other remarkable and unforgettable days. 
I'll try to post some photos, but as I'm not planning to take my laptop with me, this might be a bit difficult. 
You're probably asking: 'Where are they going?' 
Well, here is the answer...

Oh, did I mention I always name our travels?

Seven months

I started to write my WIP #3 in January. To be precise - on 4th of January. Seven months and eleven days later - the manuscript has 101.000 words and I'm almost nearly done with my first, second and third draft. But I'm not finished yet.

I know, I know... a lot of writers say that you should write first draft and finish it, without editing it during the process of writing. Well, I'm not most of writers. I don't do 'by the book'. I'm not a plotter either so my writing is a bit of a mess. 
I go where the characters take me and sometimes they take me back to correct their 'wrong' doings. And that's what I like with the writings. Nothing is set in stone most of the things can be corrected - including my characters' lives - until those last two words are written - The End . 
But here is another problem. I have an agreement with my editor to send her my manuscript till 1st August. You are probably thinking why I am panicking. Well, I'm not - yet. The thing is, I don't have two weeks’ time to finish my three drafts of my manuscript. I have one week only. 
Why, you ask?  
The thing is next Saturday my family and I are going away for our two weeks holiday. No. I'm not going to tell you right now where we are going. But the thing is - we'll be mostly travelling and... 
Well, holidays are holidays, right?

4th 5 STAR review or what I call... WOW!

Finding this review on Amazon.com for my novel  All That the Heart Desires made me put my phone away in disbelief. After several minutes I held it in my hands again and pushed the reload button once more to be completely and 100 percent sure that the review I saw and read before was really there. 
To read among other things: "Simply unputdownable!" and 'Definitely worth more than 5*.'
made me feel... how to put this - this has made me feel as high as a kite... (oops)...
It's another 5  review and I you can believe me - I've been smiling ever since.
 
Well, let's be honest - what's in there not to like?! 

3rd Review and

it's again for my novel All That the Heart Desires. This time on Amazon.com. Check for yourself - here is the link to ssterling's review.Or you can read it here:

2nd Review in 2 weeks

and guess what? It's another  review for my novel 'All That the Heart Desires'. 
Want to see it? You can head straight to 2nd 5star Review on Amazon or you can read it here:
  

There is always a first time for everything

Well, as my first 'debut' novel  All That the Heart Desires is now re-published (self-published) - and putting my second novel under submission to another publisher - I'm writing my third novel.


For some of you it will not be a surprise to tell you that I'm at 90K+ words with my manuscript. What actually is strange is the fact that although I know what the ending will be, the characters don't want me to finish their story. They won't let me finish it. 
Before this novel, every time I figured the ending, the story finished itself in a week or two maximum. This time this is not the case. 
It doesn't matter that in my head I already have a base story-line for my fourth (in English) novel. No! It looks like they want me to tell their story in their own terms, not mine.  

It looks like I will just have to go with the flow...

First review on Amazon

and you can find it on Amazon.co.uk. Here is also the link in case if you don't believe the photos... ;) 

 1st Review: All That the Heart Desires




Thank you katiematie ~ you've made my day!

Publication Day ~ Midsommer 2016

And here we are - finally. The road to the final destination of publishing my novel was a rough and bumpy one, with some detours. I might tell about that one day.

But here we are, finally!

From today forward you can get your own copy of All That the Heart Desires as an:

e-book ~ Amazon USAe-book ~ Amazon UK

or, if you prefer, as a  Paperback ~ Amazon UK
Paperback ~ Amazon USA


If you’re going to purchase my novel, I thank you. We all know time is scarce, so I thank you for taking the time to read it.

If you enjoyed it, please consider telling your friends or posting a short review. Word of mouth is an author’s best friend and it would be much appreciated. Thank you.