Hi there me,

I thought I'd lost the way to find my blog for a few days! One really needs an 'ology in the World Wide Web to access anything easily. I'm sure if I asked one of the kids or even my granddaughters they'd roll their eyes and mumble stuff about me getting old!

This is just a quickie as I'm off to work in a bit and still sitting prettily (not) in my pj's. My eldest grandaughter is now recovering from an operation on Monday and is off school loving it as her little sister has to continue going.I mention it only as a picture her mum sent me of her, post op, made me smile and I wanted to share the feeling here. (Of course thats if the 'ology fairy stays around long enough to show me how to upload it!

OOhhhh, no there she goes, you can just see the dust off her wings! lol I will work it out eventually and you'll see the pic and say "Bless!" which is the only thing you can say really she looks so sweet!

I checked the progress of my book The Tessellation Saga, its slow sales but is selling which is gratifying as I love the story and really want other people to like it too. YES I know its a tad long but hopefully with enough going on in it to keep a body enthralled!

Gotta go, otherwise I'll be following the proverbial white rabbit down a very big hole!

BYEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Write a Blog, a what?

‘Mum, you’ve got to write a Blog’. 

    A ‘Blog, what’s that?’ I reply and as the eyes roll backwards into my eldest daughters head she explains it’s a sort of diary. So this is it, my thoughts and feelings on everything not just, 'The Tessellation Saga, Prophecy’s Heir.' Even though I am proud of it and it’s been published on Amazon as an ebook and I’m as nervous as a kitten, will people like it? Will they come to love the characters (well some of them anyway, could anyone love Toby?) as much as I do? Will they even be able to make it through to the end?  Like the title, the book is a long one. Well, to begin with it was just called ‘Work in Progress.’ It began like this…

    

    My nephew Max had written a book for a competition and as he knows I read avidly he asked me to read it. I did and liked it so I told him so. We discussed his book for a while and he suggested I write my own.  You would have thought that I came home and immediately began to write but being a busy wife and mother and working shifts at London Heathrow, full time too, time itself isn’t always a commodity I have a lot of. Anyway a few days later I found myself ‘bookless’ something that never happens… I have bookshelves in every room in my house, even in the loo! I also raided my son’s room to see if he had anything new but again was disappointed, so rather than chew my nails I sat with him and told him what Max (my nephew) had said. We then began a discussion of what would make a good book. So really from the notes I jotted down as he and I talked, ‘Work in Progress’ began.

     

    I always knew the hero was going to be called Gideon; I’ve always liked the name and have a dear memory of a cartoon goose on the TV called Gideon, it made my daughter Derry, cry every time she watched it. Wicked mother, I hear you say, but she cried when the short cartoon finished and because she wanted more.  The chapter where Gideon was born was actually the first chapter I wrote. When it was finished I sent a text to my son Simon and told him that Gideon had arrived, (silly really, anyone reading the text would have thought the baby real.) Then, ‘OK’ I thought, ‘how come a woodsman just happened to be nearby in a large forest when the young girl and her unborn baby lay dying.’ So the chapter about Jedadiah Green happened along, Blue, the wolf, was at first incidental as I happen to like wolves. Then the chapter about, why the young girl, (Gideon’s mother) was running wildly through a storm lashed forest with silk slippers on her feet and in fear of her life from soldiers? So that’s when I wrote the chapter about Lydia’s father King Gath.   Do you see where I’m going? Tess 1, as a work in progress was exactly that from the start, because I almost wrote the first part backwards!  Toby came to be initially because again, I liked the name. My daughter was expecting at the time and Tobias was ‘on the list’ for a boy. I hasten to add when her son arrived he was called Hendry; the name Tobias, or Toby had a very different feel by then! Strange isn’t it how one can be influenced by a few words on a page.

    I have to add I've had to edit Tess 1 again myself as the company I paid to proof read and edit did such a bad job. Perhaps I should ask for some of my money back!  So my apologies to the folks so far that have brought it before I edited it myself!

     Got to go, need to do the ironing!