Just stopping by
Hi everyone. Sorry to say I’ve not been at all well but I seem 99.99% fine now and I’m trying to catch up with a few things. I’ve published my page here for my upcoming release: An Act of Generosity via the Arachne’s Labours page (or you can just click here). There you can see the cover and read the blurb (although the blurb is also set out in my previous post). Release date for this is August 20th. Sorry, I haven’t selected an excerpt yet but I will do so this week — it’s also difficult when I don’t know which excerpt the publisher will use and I often try not to duplicate it (you’ll be surprised how many times I’ve had that happen!).
I’m still pleased every time I think of my short story, which first inspired me to use the phrase Arachne’s Labours and indirectly led me to call my website ‘Aonia’, up at Full of Crow. It was one of those stories the first editor I showed it to didn’t like, and rather hinted would never be published, and yet it consistently gave readers who saw it a ‘shiver’, and I’ve had some wonderful comments since. Not the first time that’s happened to me, I can tell you!
On the home front we’re refurbishing the bathroom — fitting should take place around the beginning of next month and then I’ll be tiling like a mad woman. Yes, I am the tiler and also the wallpaper-er in this house. Hubby does the painting unless I can have a paint pad instead of a brush. I’m quite the DIYer at times. Well, we both are, having mostly learned through necessity, not being the rich famous author all writers dream about…yet. Ha! LOL.
On the writing…hoping to have an announcement or two very soon.