Phew and finally

Well I finally managed to complete day one and we hit a total of 31,700 words so I am afraid I think this new book will be hitting 100,000 words before I get to the end of the weekend. As usual we got another twist in the tail that I wasn't expecting as 2 of the wild goats decided that they wanted to join the fairies, elves and Penny in her garden. I can see some fun times ahead!

I am still on target to hit my deadline of getting this book ready for retail by early December but I think I will be having some late nights on the way. If it is any longer than, I am sure it will be, 85,000 words finished article then it will have to retail at £9.99.

Once this book is complete it will have to be straight into my new series 'Little Bear' as I want to release 3 books next year in the following order 'Little Bear', 'Scruffy and Teddy' and finally the next Dizzy Izzy book which as yet I don't know the title.

I also need to get on and write some short stories to submit to the People's Friend. As an avid reader of the magazine I am sure I could write some that might help to make a bit of bread and butter money to keep me ticking over between the big novels. I actually went on a workshop day for them which was a wonderful day and gave me some very good guidelines to work to.

I think I need to submit 5 a week as they say that they usually only use about 1 in 5 stories submitted to them to make an extra £200 a month that might help to pay the rent!