I hope
you’ve all had a very good start to your New Year. Many are asking what the
year of the Rat holds for us. For myself I’m hoping the rat’s aptitude for
survival and its prodigious breeding capacity bodes well. I’ve thankfully
survived the bad bout of migraines brought on by my Lupus last year. It made me
reassess my needs and how I want to live my life going forward. I made the
tough decision to give up my teaching which has provided me with the bulk of my
income to date. For years I’ve wanted to concentrate solely on my writing and I
think now is the time to do it, nerve-wracking though it may be. I’ve got a
clutch of stories, poems and novels incubating and ready to hatch.
Those born
in the Year of the Rat are said to be ‘industrious and thrifty, diligent and
positive’. While I’m not a product of one of the Rat years I certainly hope the
traits of this particular rodent will rub off on me. I’m going to need all
these to complete and publish the projects I have in mind.
Here are
my current WIPs and what I’m aiming to do with them all:
Memoirs of a Feline Familiar – Advance Reader Copies will go out to
readers at the end of this month. Readers will have all of February to read,
comment and suggest alterations. Depending on how many changes are needed it
will then be published in March or April. If you wish to join my Advance Reader Team details will follow
in my next newsletter at the end of this month.
Zoo Nation –
Complete the final stages of format and length of this collaborative poetry
collection with my fellow poet Dr Bev Cross. Send out to Advance Readers in
April and publish in May.
The Witch Adoption Project –
Complete edit and send out to Advance Readers in June/July for publication in
August if there are not too many revisions required.
The Prodigal Relative –
Complete edit of this short story collection and send out to Advance Readers in
October/November for publication at Christmas.
Too
ambitious?
Not in
the slightest. I was already working on these projects last year before I became
ill. So this year I need to get them out to you and the world in general.
This
is the Year of the Rat after all.
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