Notebook: Hallam *Update*

Afternoon lovely readers 🙂

This is just a quick post to say I have now done some more on the first of my Notebook series of posts, Notebook: Hallam (read it here). I began this series with the intent to show how my own personal writer’s mind worked (scary I know lol). I also intended to write the story ideas down before I forgot them, which no matter the desire can sometimes happen with me (elephant I am not, well memory wise anyway 😉 ). Please enjoy the story for what it is and if you can add anything to the author’s notes I have inserted please feel free to comment 🙂

Thank you.

Shiney Update Incoming

Evening lovely readers 🙂

I hope you’re all well 🙂 This is just a quick post to explain why I’ve been a naughty girl and been off the radar recently. Well as most will know I have the daily ins and outs of life with a nine month old. Add to this I have been packing like a maniac as my little family and myself are moving to our new house on Tuesday. Yay, our own space 🙂 Suffice it to say you know I’ll be cleaning for a week solid. We’ve also managed to set a date for the wedding so I’m floating from that too 🙂

On the literary front I am now working on the edits of my first novel and I have to say it’s exciting. I, perhaps like many others, was dreading what the editor had found. Did he like any of it? Was it cut to ribbons? Should I even bother writing anymore? However, my editor is a lovely bloke and has done a fantastic job. Where I was worried all of it was pure rubbish he liked it and pointed out certain points that needed work. He even liked my story telling abilities. I’m so happy right now I can’t even tell you 🙂

Anyhow I must get back to it 🙂 There’s so much to do and I’m loving every minute 🙂 My next post will be here before you know it 🙂

Thank you 🙂

A Posty Update

Evening lovely readers.

This is just a quick post to say I haven’t forgotten about the literary World I’ve just been busy with my baby girl, organising her christening and the pain in the ass that is my boyfriend. I am however working on a post for my daughter, my next review for Helena, a new flash fiction and my novel of course. These will be posted from tomorrow and I hope you enjoy them.

Oh and a quick question: I seem to be having an influx of spam comments on one of my posts, is anyone else having this problem?

Thank you 🙂

I Can Be A Grown Up Too, But Sometimes My Passion Runs Away With Me

Afternoon lovely readers 🙂

This is just a small post to inform you I have rewritten my book review from yesterday. I let my passion for literature run away with me and perhaps didn’t put much thought into the description and order I wanted to use to describe the series. I now have so I apologise to those inflicted with my first draft and I hope you’ll read the second draft now to see the wonder and excitement of the book. I respect this author greatly and hope she can see that I tried to do justice to her work 🙂

Thank you 🙂

Where Am I? An Update and a Smile Go a Long Way

Good evening lovely readers 🙂

Right about now seemed like a good time to flesh out where I am with my writing. So many exciting things are happening at the moment that it felt right to post about it. As mentioned in the previous post, the new anthology for Dagda Publishing is available from Amazon. All Hail the New Flesh is a collection of thirteen futuristic stories with a dystopian feel and a general theme of ‘technology gone mad.’ In this I have been lucky enough to have my short story Requiem chosen for publication; it’s a great honour and has been wonderful fuel for my creative fire. As I got overexcited and bought the kindle version this morning, a full review will be posted shortly 🙂

Next some wonderful personal news. Today I have had confirmation that I can get my novel professionally edited. The wonderful people at Dagda Publishing have agreed to edit my draft so I have the perfect version to send to publishers. I cannot begin to say how much I appreciate this as they are very busy with bringing out their fabulous novels and anthologies. I would in turn try to submit my novel to Dagda but I’m a self proclaimed fantasy nut through and through; give me sword and sorcery any day 🙂

And now to the blog news. I have to say that I do have a lot of rough copies of writing on here that I have stored for future use such as my novel idea Frozen. I do fully intend to carry on with this initial idea but as the paragraph above states I am concentrating on my original novel I Cast Magic Into the Darkness and intend to take this as far as I can. So in the meantime I hope you enjoy any posts I put on here in the future and for now take them as they are 🙂 Keep an eye out for improvements in the future.

And lastly I have a new #FlashForFriday in the creating which will be posted on here on Friday. It’s in reply to a flash fiction challenge my friend told me about where you have to rewrite a fairy tale and include a sub genre that wasn’t in the original. I am so excited in writing this and can’t wait for you to see what I have done. I hope you like it 🙂

Thank you 🙂

I Have Updated My Excitement…

I have taken time to update the announcement of Christine Feehan’s exciting news with the correct info. I believe I got a little too carried away in my excitement, damn my love of literature 🙂 So please reread and enjoy.

Thank you.

Updated Book Review

This is just a little post to say I have updated my first book review slightly. I added a little bit about tone etc and hope it only adds to the review and to the novel itself. Please check it out and I hope you enjoy 🙂