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Firstly I would just like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous new year. I have had a bit of a break to celebrate the holidays with my family but as from now it is back to work with a vengeance. By taking a couple of weeks off I will need to push on now with Little Bear or else I will run out of time to get Scruffy and Teddy and Dizzy Izzy and the other Fairy Kingdoms written and published before next Christmas. I will keep you all informed as to progress as we wend our way through the next few weeks.

I already have the front cover photographs for Little Bear and Scruffy and Teddy so I only have to source a picture for the new Dizzy Izzy book.

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

I have just had notification that Dizzy Izzy and the Singer is almost ready for it's final checks. They are just typesetting the front cover and then it will be coming over for the final checks before I say yes run it off the production line. I don't envisage any corrections will need doing but I remain vigilant. I am busy compiling a list of people who want books posting out so I can get them set off as soon as I receive them from the publishers. As usual I am running a bit close to Christmas but I remain hopeful they will get to my customers in time for Christmas. I am having to insist on receiving the money for the goods up front now as I have lost a lot of money by posting the books out to people and then they never pay. I am not a charity so this is the only way I can do it.

Little Bear continues her story as is usual with me there have been some unexpected twists in the story. I have several people working with me to help me to understand how it feels to have and live with the disease of MS as Little Bear will be supporting her adoptive mum through this progressive illness. Although it is tugging at my heart strings as I write the story I am really enjoying getting my teeth into a new type of writing.

I hope to explore writing for the People's Friend in the New Year as I can write 1,000 word story in about an hour so although they won't publish every story I send them I might get a bit of bread and butter money coming in for very little time spent. I have been reading the People's Friend for many years now following in my mum's footsteps so I am looking forward to this new journey.

I have completed the narrative to the little book called the story of the fleece which tells the story of how a fleece goes from keeping the sheep warm to it finally becoming a ball of wool. It is written from a baby lamb's point of view following her mummy's coat so she knows what will happen to her coat next year. We still have to sort and place the photos in and add a few simple knitting pattern at the back but it should be ready for retail by Easter. It was commissioned by a smallholding that has a few sheep and produce their own wool from their sheep to sell. They felt that having a book to buy would bring in another revenue and people might buy wool to try out the knitting pattern. I actually do the knitting for them. Another new avenue for me to follow