Hello again!

As promised (quite a long time ago), finally some more writing from me…

When I launched this website back in those uncertain murky first days of 2021, I made a promise to visitors and readers: “I'll keep adding more to this page, diving back into old previously unshared material as well as new and current writing, so please read away – and then come back again soon!”

        It was exciting – and also daunting – to share my long-stored half-decent stories (‘A Single Gal’, ‘Measure for Measure for the 21st century’), the finally-finished novella ‘Professional Survivor’, along with a chatty post (I didn’t like the word blog at the time; I’m still not sure, it sounds too much like blob, or blurgh) about my writing, not to mention a new story for 2021, ‘Blessings’ with an audience.

And then I fell silent, for years.

I am sorry, I really am.

     I have a pretty good excuse, but an excuse it is.    

I didn’t write much at all for the next year and a half, and then our world changed: we became parents!

        Parenthood is, without comparison, the most challenging, absorbing, cataclysmic thing that’s happened to me. It has taken over every aspect of my life, changed my energy levels (physical and mental), my sleep pattern, and the way my brain processes on an hourly basis.

       But it also becomes normal life. This is how it’s going to be forever now, so I began to look for ways to fit writing into my life again. And I’m getting there…

        The main thing is: I have ideas again!

       Unusually for me, I have a big non-fiction idea I want to get out of my head and into book form, but hand-in-hand I have fiction story ideas floating around too. Have a look here at the synopsis of my work-in-progress, with a working title of ‘Now or Never’, aka 'Melanie's Big Adventure'.

It’s time for me to heed this little nugget of advice: get on with it, write this novel, share Mela and Cara’s story with other people, because if not now then when?

Happy reading, and happy 2025 everyone!