April's Writing Progress

I finished the audio version of Simon and the Birthday Wish that I mentioned last month, and it's now on sale from most audiobook retailers. I was pleasantly surprised to realise how much faster I've become at audiobook production since I started. The first one I did, The Accidental Dragonrider in 2015, which is a similar length to this one, took two and a half months to record, edit and get accepted by the distributor. This one took a week, and that included some time to write a couple of computer programs to make the process smoother.

I started another audiobook, this one of Dust & Water. I'm about a third of the way through recording that.

Our local writers' group held a couple more book signings, one of them to raise money for Cancer Research UK.

Breda and I were on holiday for the latter part of the month, officially for the wedding of one of her cousins. After that, we had a week in Dublin (finally!). More about that in the next post, but for now, the relevant point is that I found somewhere I wouldn't be disturbed in the evenings (the hotel lobby) and managed to write 4500 words of my "war of the gods" story. That now stands at 31,000 words, so I think I was probably right not to include it in the Barefoot Healer omnibus...