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'Scruffy and Maisie' continues to sell quietly no big orders just a trickle on a weekly basis. I have a number of people waiting in the wings for 'Dizzy Izzy and the Singer' but I have also had a lot of interest in my new proposed series that I will be starting to write as soon as I get this Dizzy Izzy book sent off to the publishers. I have hit over 52,000 words and the party are on their way to explore the campsite where they hope to meet up with other fairies and learn all about fairy hotels before heading off to explore the beach and find the seaside fairies. I still have another day to write about before I hit a natural break. On current form I imagine we won't be far off 100,000 words so this book will probably be another £9.99 as anything over 85,000 words costs me more to have published so I need to retail it for more to offset this cost.

Once I finish this book I will be taking off a couple of days to write the narrative for a book for Shear Wensleydale which is a company that has sheep but spins their own fleeces and uses the yarn to make garments. They want a little book writing following the story of a fleece from growing on the back of the sheep to the completed ball of wool then a few simple patterns at the back of it. They have the photos so I will write the main body of the story and then they will add the photos. It won't take me very long to write so I can slot it in between my own books. Another branch to pursue

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!

I have completed 4 chapters of 'Dizzy Izzy and the Singer' hit 21,500 words and still haven't finished the first day yet! Another chapter should see the end of this first day and then I will be going on to the following day in the story. Now as Izzy, her deputies, her operational heads of the kingdom and Penny are visiting Danny's garden as he grows a number of different kinds of fruit and vegetables to get ideas what to plant in and around Penny's garden to supply the kingdom with a variety of food and then on to a camp site in a wooded area where Danny has a log cabin holiday home very close to the sea there will be lots of adventures and new experiences to describe so I imagine by the time I have finished that day we could very easily be 50,000-60,000 words into the story. As it is the weekend they have another full day planned for the following day when Izzy takes Penny and Danny to meet the deer and the goats in their own home and they all get busy placing pots and pans and building fairy houses, fairy doors and bird nesting boxes for Penny's garden I can see another rather long book emerging. Izzy meets a very surprising fairy who is a performer and introduces Izzy to a whole new world that she had never imagined existed hence the title.