A courier brought me three copies of my new large print edition of Wish You Were Here yesterday. I had my pyjamas on again but he didn’t run away screaming …
It’s published by Ulverscroft, more details here.
I also signed off the *final* proof check for Just Say Yes so it will be off to the printers this week.
Decent Exposure and Wish You Were Here are WH Smith Online Summer Read Promotions.
I know, I know… I’ve not been around in blogland lately. I’ve had a virus (yuk), spent a few days in Paris with Mr B (yay) but mainly, I’ve been feverishly honing It Should Have Been Me, with deadline looming in a few weeks. When it’s done I can go away on our family holiday (Ms B is coming too this time) and relax.
Here are some pics of Paris which was wonderful but far wetter than it looks. And yes, I was very inspired to write a book set here. Very inspired indeed… 
Please, please, please visit Baldy’s Blog. This courageous young guy is a journalist with the Huddersfield Examiner and is now terminally ill with leukaemia. He only has a short time left but is determined to campaign for greater awareness of bone marrow donation. I saw him on BBC Breakfast this morning.
I think I’m a bit too old to register but if you can help, please do.
In what may seem an unrelated link (but isn’t actually, when you think about it) there is shortlist with book covers on the Melissa Nathan Awards site. The 2008 list includes two favourite authors of mine, Christina Jones and Lisa Jewell.
I’m editing It Should Have Been Me so off the web loop at the moment. I firmly believe that any ‘magic’ really happens in the revising and rewriting of a first draft. (That’s what I’m hoping anyway!)
In the meantime, there’s a great report and some pics of the RNA Summer Party here.
