The first part of a trilogy needs to end with some
satisfaction but enough suspense to keep the story moving. Accordingly, The Book and the Baby concluded with the birth of our daughter, Meredith, but my
first novel, Wild Rose, was still on
submission and waiting for someone to publish it.
This second blog needs to start with a twist in the tale –
something to get the story started again. And life has obliged. My agent
emailed me this week to say that unfortunately the final round of submissions
was unsuccessful and that there is nothing more she can do for Wild Rose at the moment.
So, it’s over to me. Whilst I finish writing A New World, I want Wild Rose to be working its way toward publication, which means self
publishing as an eBook is the next step. Self publishing means self financing, self
promoting and self publicising – all of which are a challenge.
But the biggest challenge of all is to do any work whilst
taking care of our beautiful baby. As well as being the ultimate distraction,
at only four and a half months she needs a great deal of my time and energy.
Even as I write this Merry’s Granny is pushing her back up the garden in tears (Merry’s
not Granny’s) and work will be paused until the next free moment.
The path the publication will be trod with baby steps for
the time being.
