Off at a tangent

Dizzy Izzy and the Singer is now a proper complete book and I have fulfilled all the initial orders and got them posted. I still have some copies at home so I can continue selling them in the New Year but I won't be posting any more copies out now before Christmas.

I have been adding more to the Little Bear story and it is going quite well but I have also come across a couple of other stories that I started and committed to paper quite a while ago so as they were on scrappy bits of paper I have typed up as far as I had got with them so they are safe on the computer.

One is a romantic story that I began ready to submit to The People's friend but I am already over 2,000 words and not even halfway through it. It is going to be even too big for their other magazine that comes out every 8 weeks as the stories for that need to be no longer than 4,400 words and I don't think it will stay in that region but equally won't be big enough for a pocket novel as that needs to be 42,000 words. I can see I will just have to file that away and one day publish a book of short stories but will need to write several more stories before I am ready to do that. This one is called The Importance of Colour.

The other one I have been typing up is the notes to the next full adult book that I will be writing and publishing after Little Bear is finished is called Bombshells and it is about a family that consists of a mixture of born or homegrown children, adopted children and step children plus the parents. They all collect on the eve of the youngest twins 18th birthday party but each person in the family has a secret and will drop it into the family as a bombshell completely shattering the fragile bonds that formed the family. Even the parents have secrets of their own that they haven't shared even with each other and the twins, who everyone expects are going to university have their own secret kept even from their own twin. It will be a very intricate story to write so that I can keep my readers both interested but able to follow the complicated plot. If I pull this off then I will consider I have come of age in my writing career. I haven't even finished the notes yet and I have almost hit 3,000 words so expect this book to be a rather large story. Watch out for more information on this once I actually begin to write the full story probably early 2020 depends on how Little Bear, Scruffy and Teddy and Dizzy Izzy and the other Fairy Kingdoms work out