Where am I, and what am I doing? And a few other things you were not going to ask, but I'll tell you anyway :)

The internet is an amazing thing, I can be in 100 places at once without even leaving my chair. Today I am on the lovely Cynthia Meyers-Hanson's blog. Check out my interview at the link below (at the end of this blog post). It also includes a couple of excerpts from my latest novel, The Dream, that you may not have read before, unless of course you are one of the fabulous people who have already read the book :)

For those who have already read the book and are shouting 'When is the next one coming out?', you will notice that I mention in Cynthia's blog that I'm working on a new novel at the moment. A quick update on that: I wrote my new novel with a pen and pad in the old-fashioned way. Not good, because I have to type it up and also try to decipher my handwriting as I do so. When I write, I write very quickly as the words tumble out very fast as ideas come to me, so my handwriting is often illegible. To add to my problems, I am not a speedy typist. I have so far typed up 37,000 words. It's a first draft, which means it will need thorough editing once I've typed it up, although I am trying to edit as I go along. Most writers will laugh at this point as we all know that it takes at least 5000 re-reads and edits before a book can be published :) But of course I am joking, it takes 10,000... At that rate my new book may be published in the year 2050 if I'm lucky. But seriously, I am hoping to finish the book by the end of the year, at a rough estimate.

What is it about? Well, I can't tell you, but what I can say is that it surprised me. I didn't set out to write the book that I've written, but that's usually what happens. The general idea and message behind it is what I wanted but the twists and turns were very unexpected. It's a crime fiction book, so new territory for me in a novel, but crime has made its way into some of my short stories in the past. And it's not the traditional type of crime fiction. That's about all I can tell you at the moment. More news as and when I have it.

Here's the link to my spot on Cynthia's blog: Latest Interview