Better late than never…
I thought it high time I brought this blog up-to-date with a bit of news before the year turns the corner and 2013 is up and running with me scampering to catch up.
It’s been a lively couple of months and, what I thought might be a good long stretch of concentrated writing-time, turned into one of those mad dashes to get things done that left me in a hazy blur; among which, meeting a whole host of new people from the UK and USA since Mortal Fire was released in the summer, was a major benefit. Not that I didn’t do any work on my next project – I’m part way through a manuscript as I write, and the trials and tribulations of the characters are keeping me awake at night.
I also had my first opportunity to take part in an on-line interview for the Suspense Zone (http://www.thesuspensezone.com/?s=mortal+fire) which stimulated a few grey cells, followed by a Mortal Fire blog tour for Kregel Publications (http://www.kregel.com) in September, and a host of great reviews
Just the other week DearReader.com – an on-line book club with over 30,000 members – chose Mortal Fire as their ‘good news’ book of the week. This, and the responses from other readers from both sides of the Atlantic, have been very encouraging, and have had me beetling away on the final manuscript for Death Be Not Proud.
Recently, my lovely editor contacted me to ask for a synopsis of Mortal Fire for the beginning of Death Be Not Proud. For those who haven’t managed to get around to reading the first book in the Secret of the Journal serial, or any who might want a quick up-date before reading the second book, this quick synopsis should do the trick.
The question for me was: what should I include? Or more realistically, what should I leave out? Mortal Fire came to a hefty 360 or so pages, taking Emma from her simple, self-contained and rather insulated existence in one moment, to dodging amorous Sam and being stalked by a psychopath in the next. Not to mention the major complication Matthew posed and the questions he refused to answer. And then there were the secrets concealed within the journal itself, which threatened to blow Emma’s solitary world apart. A short synopsis? Hah! I could write a book about it…
The Next Big Thing
Jan Greenough (http://literaryteapot.blogspot.co.uk/) kindly tagged me in for this international on-line author promo and so next week, from Wednesday 28th November, I’ll be answering questions about up-coming projects and tagging five more authors; so why not pop on over and take a look?
Until then…
