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I had a successful book signing and sales at the launch of Dizzy Izzy and even sold a number of Scruffy books too. Grosmont bookshop, Guisborough book shop, Coopers of Pickering and North York Moors National Park visitor center have taken copies of Dizzy Izzy to sell alongside Scruffy I have made a start on the second Scruffy book but it is going quite slow as Christmas has got in the way but I am hopeful that I will soon get my writing head back on. I entered an Amazon competition with my version of a rework of a Christmas Carol but it wasn't considered good enough to win. I struggled to keep under 1,000 words so I think I might have another go and submit it to the People's Friend as I would love to get involved in writing for my favorite magazine. I am in dialogue with someone who will be probably using the same photo on her new CD cover as I will be using on the cover of the next Dizzy Izzy book and we will possibly be linking the 2 items. In fact she has offered to write a song especially to accompany the launch of this book but as this will not be until the summer I will keep you all posted

Dizzy Izzy is now complete and is selling well. They are all signed and posted out now just waiting to see if there are many more orders needed before Christmas. I have just completed a rework of 'A Christmas Carol' for a competition run by Amazon. I only found out about it 4 days ago and it needed to be submitted before tomorrow so it has had to be a busy weekend. The biggest problem was it had to be under 1,000 words and as I am used to writing multiple 1,000 word stories i ended up having to chop huge lumps out of it. In my opinion was way too short but as it is for children and going to an illustrated book I can understand why it needed to be that short. Next job has to be getting my head around starting Scruffy and Maisie as I have set myself a target of getting 3 books published next year

Dizzy Izzy has now flown off to the publishers and I am now awaiting her arriving back as my own first copy of her as a complete book. The book is not as large as Scruffy was but it was a natural place to stop. We only managed the first 24 hours of adventures so there is many more to come. I think this series could very well end up as about 10 books in the series. I am just having a week off to catch my breath and then will be hitting the trail again writing Scruffy and Maisie as I want to get both the Scruffy and Izzy second books published and in the shops next year. I would like to kick off the 'Ty' book series next autumn well late autumn same as I did launching Scruffy last year and Dizzy Izzy this year and then the rest of the books in all 3 series will just come out at different times. Ty is about a rescue dog who goes to live in the city with a lady who has a progressive disease and will eventually become wheelchair bound and Ty will become her assistant dog but in the early days he is so scared and timid and is frightened of his own shadow. We follow their trials and tribulations as both grow into their partnership