1 Year in Edinburgh – Melanie Surani
It’s been a year, and boy HAS it been a year.
I guess I don’t have to go in to the whole trash fire of 2016 – everyone knows what happened. It was so numbing I couldn’t get my thoughts down, and this blog has been largely inactive. My books aren’t for sale anymore, and that’s a huge bummer, but I’m working on new things, even if they’re ever only for me.
(not the cover)
Lorem Ipsum, for example. I’ve barely told anyone I’m working on it because it started as a self-comforting activity. When I arrived in Edinburgh last year, I was by myself trying to piece things together as an immigrant. It was tiring and frustrating. I was lonely. So when I wasn’t exploring the free museums in town (of which there are many), I watched 80s music videos, the entire series of Jem and the Holograms, and became way too dependent on listening to a single 70s/80s band every day. No, I won’t say which one.
