May 2009

Today has been all about quiet pottering. We got the shopping done and dusted first, if not quite as early as originally planned, and took a fairly leisurely drive home through the villages in search of pea sticks. Did you…

~ Okay, curse and damnation. One of the agents I sent my book to said that they take about a month to read and respond so since it was nearly two months I decided that it was time for a…

As previously reported in these pages I’ve been busy this week, earning a bit of an honest crust doing the old web design work for Bicester Concert Band, and its coming along nicely. Today though I decided to have a…

I wasn’t going to do this, but in conversation with Emma and my mum, I think that I am. When you hear of first time authors getting their first novels published, its always with the accompaniment of a load of…

Apparently I’ve been making Emma (and all the people she tells) laugh by my comments about what the weather is doing or is going to do vis-a-vis washing. For the record today I did do another load of washing… I…

A week on from sending my novel out to an agent I get my first rejection. Not unsurprising really, considering it was the first attempt but also not really positive or negative in either way… Dear Thomas, Many thanks for…

It’s kind of ironic that the best of the weather this bank holiday weekend was on Saturday – really warm and sunny – and I was in the theatre for 6 hours. Not that I begrudge Philip Pullman’s His Dark…

~ Two hours on and we – my parents and I – completed a Tesco order for two weeks on Friday. It was the biggest ever shop I’ve ever been witness to, even if I was just the monkey behind…