Back for Good

For those keeping track, the romance-writing textbook didn’t work out. Well, it kind of did, but I wasn’t at all happy with it.

Neither did the two romance novels I began. On top of everything else going on in my life, it’s been a pretty thin time for me.

For my paid subscribers, your subscriptions have been extended by a year. Thanks for sticking by me.

Over the past couple of months I’ve tried something new, and this has worked out.

You'll recall that in December last year I took a cruise. Not just any cruise but a literature-themed five-day cruise to Tasmania and back. I enjoyed it immensely and - naturally - it set some story ideas bubbling away.

I opened up a new project in Scrivener, put my longstanding character Carrielle Watson on the page, and watched to see what happened.

It was fun, branched off in odd directions as my characters came alive, and ended sweetly a month later.

Writing time, that is. There was actually a fair bit …