I’ve now completed the 2nd round editing journey for witchy fiction novel The Music of Flowers. I’ve changed the seasons of the novel to suit the flowers which need to be there. On a practical level, I discovered that what I think are French windows aren’t French windows at all. So I changed that to sliding doors and hope it make sense. Fleur and I have also learnt exactly what her key decision of 30 years ago means for her life now and there’s some unexpected romance, yay!
I’m writing more of my MM romance about surviving grief, Jack’s Party. Ralph is still determined to tell his story in his OWN way and not in the linear fashion his author would prefer … So at the moment he’s taking me through a key scene for him later in the story so I’m going along with that. I’ve now reached the 20,000 word marker which is very pleasing.
Your midweek poem is Empty Garden. This is found in my Learning to Swim poetry collection. I wrote this one because, no matter how bleak life becomes, we can always find beauty if we look closely for it.
I’ve read Really Good Actually by Monica Heisey: there's a rather touching love story between Maggie and Simon here which is buried somewhere in the middle of this very sprawling and repetitive book, but it's never allowed the opportunity to shine. There's also very little comedy in the story of a self-obsessed woman having a marriage break-up and falling headlong into depression. In fact it's achingly sad. There's very little (if any) character development and the ending is rather unsatisfying.
I’ve also read The Face of My Killer by Jordan Victoria: this is a high-octane very angsty 2nd chance MM romance which I absolutely loved. Both Theo & Bailey have terrible things in their histories that they need to overcome to be together, and Bailey has a particularly difficult & violent family background which has left him very fragile indeed. I loved seeing the viewpoints of both men and was seriously invested in both their journeys. Which are very much two steps forward and one step back until they can learn to trust each other again. The moments of high drama are excellently portrayed and the romantic ending is very hard-won. I loved it. Highly recommended.
In thrilling news, we’ve managed to book tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry when it comes to the British Museum in the autumn, go us! We signed up as members earlier in the year and spent four hours in an online queue when the membership booking opened this week, but it’s so worth it. Can’t wait to see it …
Have a lovely week, everyone. And, if you are in a book-shopping mode, please spare me a thought or two. Especially as it’s my birthday this weekend, so buying one of my books would be the perfect gift, thank you. Don’t forget you have the choice of: women’s fiction, gay fiction, fantasy fiction, children’s fiction, Christian books & poetry. So surely something for everyone - happy browsing!
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