When I get asked about running a blog, one piece of advice I always give is this: Think carefully about the commitment and be honest with yourself about how frequently you are going to be able to publish your blogs. If there's one thing that readers hate, it's a blog that opens with words along the lines of, "Oh my goodness! I've just looked at the date on my last blog - and it was six months ago!"
In ten years of blogging, I've never done anything like that.... until now. My last blog was at the end of November and here we are now just a few days away from Christmas.
Why the silence? Well, this month I've had to get two books edited - the fourth instalment of the Home Front Girls series, A Wedding for the Home Front Girls, and also the first book in my new Maisie Thomas series, which will be another WW2 saga series. I can't tell you the title yet, as I'm still waiting for the Marketing people to confirm it.
Incidentally, here's the cover of Wedding. Isn't it a cracker?
I organise my writing schedule so that doing edits, copy-edits etc for two different publishers gets spread out; but for various reasons, early this month, two books popped up in my inbox twenty-four hours apart, both needing to be edited. Yikes!
To get all the work done before Christmas, everything else basically got chucked overboard. Sincere apologies to you if you are one of my regular blog-followers and you come here every week to find out what's going on in my writing life and to meet my guests bloggers and find out about their books.
Anyway, all the work got done and the two edited books were returned to their respective editors. Phew!
Sending you all warmest wishes for the festive season. See you in the new year xxxx
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