It’s a long time since anything was posted on my personal
blog but things have not been quite so inactive off-stage. There’s the regular postings on the Compass
Books blog http://www.compass-books.net/blogs/compass
and Facebook facebook.com/JHPCompassBooks - not to mention the launching
of the new quarterly online CB magazine, Writer’s Wheel at http://www.o-books.com/blogs/obooks/writers-wheel-2/
and the typescript for Creating Meaningful Dialogue is now in production. There’s also a mini-series called ‘Starting
Your Writing Career’ on the CB blog that gives a step by step and book by book
guide to the different disciplines of creative writing.
I’m now
up to Chapter Fourteen of my novel ‘House of Strange Gods’ and hopefully the
first draft should be finished by the end of the summer. On the
home front it’s been quite a stressful year with hospitals playing a large part
in the drama and the loss of three of my beloved greyhounds: Alfie, Harry Boy
and Jack due to old age and accident.
Fortunately writing is my hobby as well as work, so work is often the
only relaxation at the moment – and I’m still working on two more novel ideas
in my head!
If you
want to keep up to date with what’s going on, go the Compass Books sites.
