Back to school!

 September always has that 'back to school' feel. My youngest is about to enter year eleven and my middle child is returning to her final year at university. And I have to return to my writing desk. After a summer of publishing REWIND, watching the football, tennis and the Olympics, going on holiday in Wales and taking in some concerts at the BBC Proms, I really need to get back to writing now.

I've spent a lot of the summer thinking about my next MS. I started it earlier this year but had to put it on hold while I finished off REWIND. I'm not continuing my series though (for now) but writing something new instead. Still crime and still police procedural but a new location and new characters. In my head, everything is working but translating that to the page is something else. Will the plot hold together? Will readers like my new characters as much as I do? Will my agent be able to find a publisher who wants to buy it? That's the real question.

It's fair to say that the fiction market, especially crime, is over-saturated with novels. A lot of authors are struggling to find homes for their books. Why do we do it? Because we're compelled to write. This will be my eighth novel (only four of them published) and still I keep going. Stories have been living in my head since I was a child and writing them down is the only way to get them out of my mind!

So, I need to crack on and get that story down on paper. Time to delve into a make-believe world again! 

These photos are a clue to the new location in my MS!