Sniff. Another ending...
Making it Personal was my first ever self published book, back in 2013, and it marks a changing point in my life.
Up until then, I'd spent twenty-three years teaching French and Spanish, but 2013 was the year I got out of teaching. The previous two years had been... stressful. And when everything came to a head in April that year, I knew something had to change.
My dad was the one who put it into words.
He asked if I could make a living writing.
Whoa.
That was a scary thought. Leave teaching?
But the more I thought about it, the more I became excited. Terrified. Excited. Nervous.
Did I mention excited?
When Making it Personal was released in July, it went to #1 in Gay Romance and Gay Fiction on Amazon. In fact, there was one point when it was trading #1 and #2 with An Unlocked Heart.
Yes, it's had its share of readers who didn't like it, but it remains one of my most popular books.
At the end of 2013 I released Personal Changes, the story of Rick, who worked at Trinity Publishing, and Angelo, the hero who saves him from a nasty piece of work.
But the following year, Ed got his story in Personal Secrets - and a whole load of admirers. Ed, my Cockney bear of a rugby player, who finally meets someone that completes him. He just hadn't figured on it being another guy...
Ed is one of my favourite characters. He's brash, doesn't mince his words, loud - and has a heart the size of the Atlantic. Only this weekend, I met a French reader who told me he absolutely loved Ed.
When Valentine's Day 2015 came around, I gave Ed and his lover Colin a weekend to remember - just not for the reasons Colin had envisages - in Strictly Personal.
And in More Than Personal Will and Blake, my original couple, saw the birth of their daughter, Sophie.
And now? It's the end of the road for this series. Next week sees the publication of the final novel, Personal Challenges and it deals with all three couples - but three very different storylines.
I've kept this one close to my chest. There has been a hell of a lot of research gone into this one, and although I regularly share extracts from my WIP with my Facebook group, none of its members - with the exception of my beta team - know about two of the plots.
Yes, I'm nervous.
Today I sent out the first ARCs, and you know I'm trying not to think about it. I'm just going to get on with my edits, my writing, and not jump when someone tells me they've reviewed it....
Up until then, I'd spent twenty-three years teaching French and Spanish, but 2013 was the year I got out of teaching. The previous two years had been... stressful. And when everything came to a head in April that year, I knew something had to change.
My dad was the one who put it into words.
He asked if I could make a living writing.
Whoa.
That was a scary thought. Leave teaching?
But the more I thought about it, the more I became excited. Terrified. Excited. Nervous.
Did I mention excited?
When Making it Personal was released in July, it went to #1 in Gay Romance and Gay Fiction on Amazon. In fact, there was one point when it was trading #1 and #2 with An Unlocked Heart.
Yes, it's had its share of readers who didn't like it, but it remains one of my most popular books.
At the end of 2013 I released Personal Changes, the story of Rick, who worked at Trinity Publishing, and Angelo, the hero who saves him from a nasty piece of work.
But the following year, Ed got his story in Personal Secrets - and a whole load of admirers. Ed, my Cockney bear of a rugby player, who finally meets someone that completes him. He just hadn't figured on it being another guy...
Ed is one of my favourite characters. He's brash, doesn't mince his words, loud - and has a heart the size of the Atlantic. Only this weekend, I met a French reader who told me he absolutely loved Ed.
When Valentine's Day 2015 came around, I gave Ed and his lover Colin a weekend to remember - just not for the reasons Colin had envisages - in Strictly Personal.
And in More Than Personal Will and Blake, my original couple, saw the birth of their daughter, Sophie.
And now? It's the end of the road for this series. Next week sees the publication of the final novel, Personal Challenges and it deals with all three couples - but three very different storylines.
I've kept this one close to my chest. There has been a hell of a lot of research gone into this one, and although I regularly share extracts from my WIP with my Facebook group, none of its members - with the exception of my beta team - know about two of the plots.
Yes, I'm nervous.
Today I sent out the first ARCs, and you know I'm trying not to think about it. I'm just going to get on with my edits, my writing, and not jump when someone tells me they've reviewed it....
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