A Day Like Any Other - Guest Post by Jan Edwards
January 1 st is a day like any other. Many of us like to celebrate the new year in grand style with parties and nights on the town. ‘Seeing in the new year’ has never been a family tradition for me. My father always maintained that ‘it would still be there in the morning what ever you do’ and he was right of course. Yet I still like to see the year out and in, toasting new ideas with those closest to my heart. Today I received a copy of SPARKS 2: A Year in E-Publishin g , the Authors Electric book of blogs for 2015. I also had a payment for a story about to be published in January and I had a meeting with fellow writer Misha Herwin to map out our plans for 2016 projects. Projects such as 6X6 - a series of quarterly reading cafes to be held at Central Library, Hanley, Stoke on Trent, and also the launch of our respective new titles with Penkhull Press . We have collections and novels already in proof stage and ready to launch in the spring, so 2016 is already busy before i...