Welcome to Newsletter #4
Hi everyone! Welcome to Newsletter #4. I did say in Newsletter #1 I had no strict schedule for releasing newsletters, but I am mortified to realize I last chatted to you in November 2018. Wow! All of 2019 has gone missing! It was a very busy year with lots of travel (lucky me) and lots of trying to fit writing in between, but no excuses!
So, what happened in 2019? Many of my ‘current projects’ were actually revisions of older projects. I mentioned in Newsletter #3 that I revised and augmented The Kira Chronicles trilogy, and released it with new covers, as the six book The Kira Chronicles series.
In 2019, I went one step further and released the six book series as a single book, to make the six books more economical for readers. The Kira Chronicles – Complete 6 Book Series also got a fabulous new cover that I really love.
Angel Caste was another of my revision projects for 2019 and, like The Kira Chronicles, all five individual books are now available in a single book: Angel Caste – Complete 5 Book Series. It also got a wonderful new cover.
I love the original The Kira Chronicles covers (when the trilogy was published by Allen & Unwin); the covers I used for the six book series; and the five Angel Caste covers, but these new covers are definitely a better fit for the genre as well as being gorgeous.
All this revision work was time consuming and didn’t produce any completely new stories. In Newsletter #3 I mentioned a new series I am planning, mysteriously called SOO, and although I have added ideas and bits of dialogue to the SOO folder, SOO remains just a collection of ideas.
This is because, as I also mentioned in Newsletter #3, my writing time was hijacked by a story with the working title of I Heard the Wolf Call My Name. It was this phrase popping into my head that started me writing the story. Well, the title stuck, and I worked away on the story during 2019 between our various trips, and was proud and relieved to launch the novel in November 2019 (available on KDP Amazon and KDP Select).
I have since had some very exciting news about I Heard the Wolf Call My Name, which I will share with you in Newsletter #5 (which won’t be too long after this one).
So, in 2019 I managed to complete two big revision projects and a novel, but wait! There is more! I also published two short stories: Dragon Sprite and Glass-Heart (available on KDP Amazon and KDP Select). And if my news about I Heard the Wolf Call My Name isn’t exciting enough, I have similar news to share with you about Glass-Heart (coming soon in Newsletter #5).
