Cobwebs


Here is what happened. When I tried to wrench open the doors of this blog to actually post something, the handles refused to move; the whole thing was glued together with an amalgam of months-long dust and neglect. Everything covered in cobwebs …

So in keeping with the season I have done some Spring-cleaning.

BIG sorry to faithful followers.

But I have negotiated my way through two more units towards my Masters, started another blog – Ruby Rainbow Reviews – and have completed a first draft of the sequel to Dog Gone. Working title of novel for older readers is Fish and I’ve been having fun trying to distil the storyline into one sentence. Here’s one possibility:

One ill-begotten moment of deceit leads Ish to unearth a terrible truth and now he must live with the consequences …

Anyway, it’s been so much fun working with Ish and Molly again. Sometimes I feel as if they are real people living in a parallel universe. One day I was so involved in writing a scene, when I looked out of the window of my study I had a momentary ‘what are those trees doing there?’ moment.

Hope you like the new look and will try to post again before next winter.

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