The Write Stuff Interview
Sharon of Shaz’s book blog invited me about how lockdown affected the release of my second book Laughing at Myself, and how it affected me in her feature ‘The Write Stuff’.
She says “as a reader I like to hear more from writers about their writing etc. so decided to introduce this new The Write Stuff with... feature where authors can talk about anything... well so long as it's loosely writing related. I'm hoping that readers will find the pieces interesting and informative”.
“So a little bit of background on book two, right from the beginning it seemed to take much longer to put together, not least because when I was supposed to be on full concentration mode Mr Himself decided to get a puppy, and he (the puppy, although this could also apply to Mr Himself) took up a massive amount of time and virtually all my energy.
During the writing to remind everyone that there really was a second book coming I ran a poll on my social media and website to choose the new cover, and the sunglasses wearing pineapple was a hit.
By and by I did manage to get the first full drafts to my editor, and thought that all I had to then was work harder to hit the deadline, right? Well no. The next hurdle was that for whatever reason the edits that the lovely Ruth (my editor) made didn’t seem to save on the document, and when it was emailed back to me it was exactly the same as when I sent it. Ruth could see her edits, and talk me through them, but we didn’t manage to get the technology together. I don’t need to tell you the stress and frustration that caused, I am sure my neighbours thought I’d taken in an Anglo-Saxon lodger so ‘traditional’ was my language….”
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