Amandababble Week Nine
Phew what a week! It’s lasted about two days – I think maybe I’ve been living in a microwave and someone pinged me forward in ultra quick time. This might actually be very useful. I can think of a couple of applications, childbirth, root canals, the kids school plays – where every little angel has one line or a bit of a dance and you sit with a numb bum on a plastic chair waiting for your baby to have their fifteen seconds of fame… and the Eurovision song contest, where the only bit I like to watch are the results and the smiling faces of those coming last, as if to say, ‘we don’t mind! It’s just lovely to take part’ whilst crying off camera into their Cinzano and lemonade.
But I digress. This week we launched the ITV This Morning summer read – I was very nervous. Thank you so much for all your lovely words of support, it really made a difference. Everyone made me so welcome and the first Amanda Prowse summer short story is available to read here for free; http://t.co/JvPPSti4Xx if you like it – please LIKE it – if you get my drift!
Look out for next weeks story, which is a bit special and I think you will love!
One of our boys has been on holiday this week with his friends in Turkey – we received an email after a few days which read ‘Hi. It’s hot’ I wish this was précised or edited, but no, this was in its entirety – a man of few words. Let’s hope he’s also a man of few items of disgusting laundry upon his return, ha! Fat chance.
I have spent this week writing all day, every day and the first draft of my next novel ‘A Little Love’ is ready – it’s fab and I am chuffed as chips with it. I have already started the one that comes after that. I’m sworn to secrecy by my publishers and can’t say what its about or who it features, but its so lovely to be spending time with Poppy and Mart again – Ooops did I say that? You didn’t hear it from me!
We are having our annual family summer party next weekend. Thirty of us from near and far, all camping in the back garden and eating burnt BBQ food, bliss! The Major is in charge of organizing the family Olympics and has just arrived home with Hula Hoops (the playground variety and not the crisps) a stack of beanbags and four air rifles– the mind boggles.
Clover’s Child continues to receive the most heartfelt reviews on Amazon, probably some of the nicest and moving reviews I have ever received for any book – ever. I can feel that Dot’s early story has touched a nerve and I am glad, because she touched me and is without a doubt my favourite heroine, so far. I like knowing what her life was like before she slipped into the icy grip of dementia – how we first met her in Poppy Day.
I had a very funny conversation in the ITV studio when I announced that I didn’t have a telly. You could have heard a pin drop! What? No telly – but how do you watch, telly?!? My answer, ‘we don’t.’ The consensus was that I am a weirdo – could’ve told them that!
Hope this week is full of good things for you and that kindness comes knocking on your door.
Right – off to hunt down the kids old paddling pool as the Major needs it for his planned party game and any snorkels that might be lying around, apparently… wish me luck, I’ve a feeling I’m going to need it.
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