I thought I'd write a quick blog about what I'm up to at the moment. I'm technically on a two week sabbatical from writing so I can catch up with things like cleaning, gardening and all the boring, mundane things I don't get done when I'm writing. I have also have a few books to read as I never read when I'm writing. I'm excited about the reading.
Firstly, I just handed over the final draft of Happy Endings to my publisher! I started writing Happy Endings last January so it's taken just over a year from beginning to end. I'm so proud of the book. It's the first time I've worked with professional editors and I think they've managed to take my book from being just good to brilliant - not that I'm blowing my own trumpet, of course. They manged to squeeze more out of me than I ever could on my own. I think working with editors is like going to the gym on my own or going to a personal trainer. A trainer will push you far harder than you can on your own and in the end you get far better results. I'm so excited for it to be released in August.
Something else that happened this week was that I sold the Italian rights for This Thirtysomething Life. For those of you who don't know, but the way it works is that my publisher has the rights to my book and they sell them off one country at a time. So far we have Serbia, China and Italy and hopefully the list grows once the paperback is actually out.
That's it for now. I have some reading to do and then I'm going to start writing This Family Life, which I'm super excited about. Until then I'll just leave you with these little adverts I did for Thirtysomething. I like to doodle around on Photoshop.
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Until next time.
Hugs,
Jon X
