I’ll be on BBC Radio Berkshire from 2.00 this afternoon, talking with Sarah Walker about creative writing and getting published. You can listen live, or listen again, here.
In other news, my book has finally (at 79,850 words) hit its stride and I absolutely can’t wait to write it. Of course this has happened right before I fly off to the US to see my family and then go to a conference, and I will be so busy I won’t be able to write a word. Suffice it to say, though, that I have managed to get my heroine into my hero’s car, which is an Aston Martin Vanquish, and they have gone speeding through the Wiltshire countryside nearly getting killed before he practically kidnaps her and forces her to visit his vast ancestral Elizabethan hall.
This probably has nothing to do with the fact that I’ve been reading Harlequin Presents novels.
Awesome.
Sounds good! Think of all that nothing to do on the plane time you have, – perfect for a bit of writing?
Ahhhhh well, there’s the certain matter of a certain toddler sitting in the seat next to me needing to be entertained.
Maybe on the plane to the conference in DC.
Those children hey! Never taken mine on a plane, but I guess it’s colouring and the Gruffalo for the gazillionth time…(it is a great book though!) Oh and cloud spotting, from a different angle.
Have fun!
Hey, I had an Aston Vanquish zooming to an Elizabethan hall in one of my books. Then the Aston got blown up.
Perhaps he should have had a DB9.
Stickers, Lorraine. I plan to have lots and lots of stickers.
Kate, it really does sound like we’ve written essentially the same book. Without the explosives (so far).
Hey, sounds good. But so do the explosives…
Girl from Mars kept me up waaaaaay past my bedtime on the weekend. And you made me cry (again!)
Does yours have a magic ring and a Czech gangster? Does the hero dress up like Spike from Buffy?
(Okay, if you say yes I’ll be really wierded out)
Isn’t that always the way. You just manage to get going and life gives you a pinch again
Hooray, Mulberry! I love making readers cry.
No, alas, Kate. No magic ring, or magic at all, though there is a stone circle and there will be crop circles. And the hero is a tall, dark and handsome Viscount, who doesn’t dress as Spike. He wears fairly normal clothes, though the heroine is a bit disgusted that at one point he drapes a jumper over his shoulders.
Though now that you’ve mentioned it, I might have to see if I can squeeze some Czech gangsters in.
Which story of yours was this?
Yes, Lacey, yes it is the way.
Ugley Business, one of my Sophie Green books. And actually, the ring wasn’t magic, it just appeared to be.
The Aston still got blown up, though.