Escaping reality – sometimes needed

In light of all the events in my home country recently I have been forced to take a leave of absence from my other life. This has been one of those entirely unavoidable times when work must boil over and become the be all and end all of everything, even more so than family sometimes which again has taken its toll. Although I don;t go into my work life very often it’s clear to say the family within which I work has been tested to almost breaking point and whilst I may be on the fringes it has been felt.

To that end I offer my apologies for not being “Tobey Alexander” and not devoting enough time to being present. I know it is easy to assume this writing/author identity and believe me I have used it to escape the pressures of day-to-day demands quite effectively recently.

I have also introduced a new addition to my already substantially large family and now add a puppy to the three children, two cats, wife and me! Ironically unlike more conventional authors (I never claimed to follow convention) but I have named my dog after my own character, not the other way around. So my Cockerpoo (yes that name makes me laugh) is called Archy in homage to my fake great grandad!

He is, of course, demanding some of my attention, again a welcome escape from work but that does not mean I have not been doing at least a little behind the scenes work as Tobey Alexander.

I have compiled some approaches to Agents To be truthful I’m not sure why because I suppose being self-published gives me full freedom. Indeed it adds a lot of pressures going it alone (I despise poorly presented book covers so spend as much effort as I can coming up with covers I would like to look at without employing the services of others). I think an Agent or someone in the elusive “industry” would in a way add some credibility to me, maybe more to massage my own ego and stroke the sense that maybe I am not just a hack at all of this.

I don’t know, I know it is what “should be done” so I will go with it and see what doors, if any, it opens.

As you’ve guessed already by now I do tend to speak my mind as it comes into my head which is why some of my Blog entries spin-off at tangents. But I can be forgiven for that……..can’t I!?!

Alas I can confidently say I have no idea which cover I like at the moment for my next big project INTO THE DARK. I still have the final Origins Of The Magdon book to release in Autumn that will bring Archy’s own adventure to a close. Albeit that is designed, edited and completed and sat waiting to be released.

As I keep saying, my ability to promote my own material, advertise my books and be the noticed rising star is about as reliable as being guaranteed to see the sun for the entire of summer in England! That being very little! I really do need to bite the bullet and either pay or get my finger out of my own posterior and add yet another new skill-set to my ever growing attempts at being writer, editor, designer, publisher and who knows…….publicity attemptor!

Well I should get back to Archy (the puppy not the character although…..sorry I will shut up).

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Smile everyone, as much as you can.