It's been a while. OK, fine, it's been more than a while. A while hints at just a tad longer than expected. It's been forever, an absolute age, too long. But I have my reasons. Here they are in no order of excuse:
1. I've been writing my new novel.
2. I work twenty hours a week, stay home with the kids the rest of the time and I've started a college course in web design and development.
3. I am perpetually forgetful and slovenly. Not an excuse, just a fact.
The truth, however, is that like most people with busy lives, time just gets away from me. One minute Spring is gently tapping me on the shoulder with the promise of sunshine and fluffy new bunnies and the next moment it's winter and chilly winds are punching me in the face. Then before I know it, I haven't written a blog in a year. You see where I'm coming from.
There is light at the end of the tunnel though. Oh, yes.
Firstly, my new novel, HAPPY ENDINGS, isn't that far away. I'm hoping to have it out at the beginning of 2013. Can you believe it's 2013 already?
Secondly, I'm working on having THIS THIRTYSOMETHING LIFE, made into a paperback and available on Amazon very soon. This will give all of you the chance to have your very own copy of wonderful book. You can read it again, or for the first time, you can hold it and look at the photo of me longingly, you can use it as a doorstop or something to kill flies with. The important thing is that you buy it. I will update when I have a definite date for that. Hopefully before Christmas because it will be a lovely stocking stuffer!
Thirdly, I'm working on some snazzy (and I don't use that word lightly) cover designs for both HAPPY ENDINGS and THIS THIRTYSOMETHING LIFE. I hope this will make them look and seem as gorgeous and lovely as they are and more appealing to people like you.
Lastly, I am going to start blogging again and perhaps even join Twitter. Let me explain. I'm creating a delicious new website for my writing (as part of my web design course - two birds, one stone) and so I want to have links to my Facebook, Twitter and Blog. I'm basically doing the full social media assault. So be afraid.
Lastly, here is the brief synopsis for HAPPY ENDINGS. I hope you enjoy it and it wets the juices (not in a sexual way obviously) for it's forthcoming release (again nothing sexual applied with the term release).
HAPPY ENDINGS SYNOPSIS
Kate needs to go travelling before she reaches the big Three-O, while her long-term boyfriend Ed just wants to settle down.
Harry is desperate to be a published writer for many reasons, but mainly to save his relationship with fiancee Emily.
Emily wants to be an actress more than anything in the world, or at least that's what she always thought until she suddenly finds out she's pregnant.
Four people, two couples and six months that will change their lives forever. Told uniquely from all of their perspectives, this is a story about love, growing up and, of course, Happy Endings.
Hugs,
Jon X
