Hello everyone! I’m still alive, lols
Hi everyone. I’ve been absent for a lot longer and more completely than I’d anticipated. I’m so sorry. And it’s about time I let you all know I’m still alive and almost kicking 
In my absence I’ve learnt a few things about how to manage my days whilst allowing for unexpected relapses. Oh and the hospital visits and eye surgeries, etc. Some days I’m not in so much pain and have some energy. It’s still limited and I can do only so much. Other days, it’s all I can do to climb out of bed and–hopefully–grab a cup of coffee.
So, while I’d love to outline my plans, I can’t commit to a schedule as I never know what will happen daily. Anyhooo … here’s an attempt to offer you some sort of an idea.
Plans:I haven’t written a word for months and desperately need to change that, but at a pace I can manage. For that to happen I need to stay offline whilst I work. Once I’ve completed any projects, I’ll stop for a while so I can visit your blogs and say hello. Then, when (and if) I start another project, I’ll have to disappear again until that’s done. When I say ‘projects’ that includes any editing/proofreading/formatting work I receive as well as writing.
For a looong time now I’ve taken work only from authors I’ve worked with previously, who know my struggles. Also that my work hours are cut severely from what they used to be. That said, I always give 100% and keep my folks up to date. Happily, I can say I still have happy customers 
Now I can, I’ll continue here with the Homonyms with Harmony series of posts I began on Story Empire. On Story Empire, in December, I got up to ‘G’ words, so my next post here on homonyms will be the ‘H’ words. I so hope you’ll be eager to see those resume, if somewhat slowly and not on a regular schedule. But, who knows? Miracles do happen, lols. I’ve included the link to post ten above as this contains links to all prior nine posts if you haven’t seen those yet.
Along with the posts here, I will work on getting the Homonym book together and ready to publish. Once that’s out there, I’ll have three writing books out. Somewhere in the distant future, I may put them into a boxset. Right now, though, I’m going to link the two already out into one series and add the Homonyms book to that to make them all easier to find. Once the series is up and linked, I’ll let you all know. The two books out are Polish Your Prose: Essential Editing Tips for Authors and Creative Solutions for the Modern Writer: Inspirational Tools to fire your imagination.
Along with the planned Homonym book, I’ll then have a trilogy of non-fiction and writing help available.
Harmony House of Horror planned series:
Origins: Harmony House of Horror book oneAfter I’ve finished all that, I shall use my time to be online for a while until I’m ready to recommence my Harmony House of Horror series. To the left is the planned cover for book one in the series: Origins. I’d made a good start before everything changed again, but I promise it will make it out of my head and onto the page.
It may be that I can manage one day a week online, even when working, but I’ll have to see how things pan out. For certain, though, this break has done me the world of good and helped me to best plan how to allocate my limited time.
Other news:
Hubby and I are both a tad down in the dumps, and having wind, rain, mist, and single-digit temperatures from about September last year (well, most of last summer too), isn’t helping. We’re now in official British Summertime, and it feels more like Autumn. If the forecasters have it correct for a change, we may experience a strange bright and warm orb in the sky next week. The darn 
isn’t up for letting us know how long it plans to stay, though.
Netgalley reached out to me after a little over a year and helped get me up and running again after deleting my whole profile and books read … everything! In the upcoming days I’ll have an audiobook review for you, and a warning to avoid a certain upcoming ebook, so please watch out for that post. As I need to focus on my massive TBR and your books, I won’t be doing as many NetGalley reviews as I used to.
I plan to come and see as many of you as possible after my eye surgery on Tuesday next week. I may manage on Monday, but those tend to be difficult days for me. So it’s a wait and ‘see’ (couldn’t resist the pun)! 
Moving House. Image courtesy of Pixabay.Also, my cleaner had to quit due to health issues of her own. With all of that, and my worsened health, we’re struggling to cope with the building we live in, let alone the large garden! So, on top of all else, we’re now in the process of locating a smaller place and selling ours.
We also need to future proof and move to somewhere with necessary amenities. Where we are is all fields, which I love, but practicality now outweighs nice views! As you all know, the whole selling/buying/moving thing is messy and stressy. On that front, I’ll do my best to keep you informed. For certain, even when I’m in an offline phase, I need to touch base with you more often than I have done. So here’s 
to it all.
Anyway, I’ve blabbed on for long enough, so I’ll shut up for now and let you get on with your day. It’s taken me over two hours to write this post, and I’m exhausted, which gives you an idea of what I’m up against. At least you can read it a lot more quickly! Teehehee.
Please know, I hold you all in my heart and thoughts and hope you’re doing okay. I’d love to hear from you in the comments if you have the time, and I promise to reciprocate as soon as I can.
Love and hugs, Harmony 
