Hello,
I hope 2013 is treating you with a little respect and a big dollop of love. This is my second blog of the year and it's only the middle of January! If I keep this up it could be a record blog year for me. I do apologise. I am an awful blogger. More inconsistent than buses. It's a tough old game though. Between writing and everything else, blogs feature in the same bracket as cleaning, and as I actually need to do a bit of cleaning around the house, it's time for a blog!
Anyway, I wanted to write a short blog about dreams. Every writer has dreams. I think its just in our nature. Six months ago my dream was to get a publishing deal with one of the big boys. Admittedly, I would have taken a publishing deal from anybody six months ago, but luckily I got the attention of Hodder who are, without doubt, one of the biggest. They also publish quite a few of my literary heroes, which was a bit of a bonus! This was my big dream. In reality my only dream because until I got published, nothing else was even remotely possible. This changed everything.
My next and hopefully realistic dream is that This Thirtysomething Life (which comes out as a paperback on APRIL 25TH!) does really well and sells lots of copies. I hope it gets some good reviews and people love it. My next big dream is that my second novel Happy Endings (due out near the end of the year) does even better and sells even more copies. That's my two biggest dreams for 2013.
There are, of course, the bigger dreams. The dreams I think about when my mind starts wondering and I imagine the perfect world. For most people their BIG dream probably involves winning the lottery. Well, my lottery jackpot, my biggest dream is that This Thirtysomething Life gets bought and made into a sitcom. It's a crazy dream and one that will never happen, but like the lottery, I still dream about it from time to time. The reason I would like it made into a sitcom rather than say a film, is because a: I love sitcoms and b: when I sat down to write Thirtysomething, I wrote it as a sitcom.
I suppose I wanted to share this because it was on my mind. I was editing Happy Endings today, slaving away over the keyboard, and I started thinking how crazy the last few months have been. I'm editing a book for my editor. It's proper. My biggest life goal is now a reality. It's like someone playing professional football or an actor getting a lead role in a film. I've done that and yes, it doesn't mean I'm suddenly going to be super rich or stonkingly successful, it just means I have a shot at it. I have a shot at making my dream a reality, and maybe if I'm really lucky, if all the stars align, if miracles do actually happen, maybe, one day, I'll be able to watch my book on the telly.
It probably won't happen, but it doesn't mean I'm not going to dream about it from time to time.
Until next time.
Hugs,
Jon X
