Update on JASMINE'S STORY (plus my new novella)

I WAS hoping to share JASMINE'S STORY with you this week, but sadly Amazon have a conversion backlog at the moment, so we'll be waiting until July 7th apparently, though perhaps they'll catch up and it will come out sooner! Here's hoping.

In the meantime, I'm talking to crime author & psychiatrist @rosieclaverton on her fantastic Freudian Script blog again, this time about teenagers and mental health issues. I'm also talking in more detail about JASMINE'S STORY's two lead characters, Jasmine & Olivia, so if you want some more info on what underpins the story, check it out HERE.

In addition, I'm on the brilliant @VirtualWriters site, talking about dealing with rejection as a writer. It's something that EVERY single writer has to learn how to handle in this business; working with my Bang2writers, I've discovered the same fears and misconceptions abound, especially amongst new writers. So don't let rejection put you off your writer's journey, check out the post HERE.

As far as my own writing goes, I've just completed a draft (finally!) of my New Adult romantic comedy, WEEKENDED, which is about three young women who fall in love and/or have to deal with its fallout in the course of one weekend. I've had a blast writing it and its characters first got an outing in 2003! Sadly I was never able to get a cohesive draft together and after a disastrous attempt last year, I thought that was the end ... Until they knitted themeselves into THIS one! Shows you should never write off (arf) some stories, they're like those monsters in old horror films, coming back when you least expect it! I sent the novella off to beta readers last night, so fingers crossed they like it. I plan to enter WEEKENDED into the Jonathan Cape open submission call and (of course!) into Salt Publishing's "Modern Dreams" call. Make sure you're following @saltpublishing on Twitter, too.

Keep your fingers crossed for me! Best of luck with your own writing and hope you're all reading something GREAT!