panic attack

28th May, 2010 So much for the yoga breath. Had a very bad moment yesterday afternoon. Suppose the calm before the storm is actually the calm before the absolutely deafening silence? The fact is that you simply never know what is going to happen at publication – certainly not as far as reviews are concerned. [...]

yoga breath

Thursday 28th May, 2010 Exactly a week to go until the launch. This is probably the worst part of publishing a book – the part when nothing seems to be happening, the calm before the storm (or so you hope) of reviews, events, lectures, the book finally appearing in the shops. One of my events [...]

Paul Pindar

20th May, 2010 Two weeks to go till the launch. My husband woke up this morning and said that he had a dream last night in which he had written a novel with a character in it called Paul Pindar. How odd, I’ve been dreaming a lot recently about the new novel, it must be [...]

Blog landscape

18th May, 2010 Still in a state of complete stasis. Would really like to begin work on the new novel, but somehow even the reading and research for it is proving hard to concentrate on. Every time I try to settle down to it my mind wanders onto other things. I have this permanently uneasy [...]

Wading through Mud

Monday, May 17th, 2010 Exactly three weeks to go until the official publication of ‘The Pindar Diamond’ (June 7th). Only two and a half to the launch….. The place I thought I’d be able to get all the wine from has let me down, so today I’ll have to find somewhere else to get it. [...]

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