I’ve written a new post for my Unbound blog, about the book that I was writing when I got the idea...

I’ve written a new post for my Unbound blog, about the book that I was writing when I got the idea for Oh, I Do Like To Be…, and why I never finished it. The book was an adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and I’ve included a few extracts from it in the blog post. Nobody has ever read a word of it before: not my agent or my publishers, no one. As this is unseen work, I wanted to keep it exclusive, so I’ve made this particular post private, so that only supporters of the book can read it. If you want to join them, you can pledge at the Unbound site: https://unbound.com/books/oh-i-do-like-to-be

Here’s a little bit of the blog post, to whet your appetites:

I was completely incapable of coming up with a good personality for Snow White; maybe she could have been sweet but stupid, or so good-hearted that she is almost impossibly irritating. I can’t remember what options I considered; in the end I made her bratty and teenage. And vegetarian. It’s never a good sign when your key character trait for someone is ‘vegetarian’. Similarly, my entire character plan for Otto the dwarf appears to have been 'secretly alcoholic’. I can’t remember which of the dwarfs he was meant to be, which is a major issue when I was supposedly basing him on one of the Disney dwarfs who are literally named after their personalities. Perhaps he was Doc.