It has been a strange few weeks, comprising of both good and bad stuff. I am very excited about my new novella which is shortly to be released as an ebook on Amazon. I originally wrote Lifesong many years ago and entered it into the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future novella competition, where it was placed very highly, receiving an honourable mention and a certificate. So, when it was suggested that I release a novella, Lifesong, immediately came to mind. I have been very busy editing and updating it, because although it was technically perfect, I felt it needed bringing into 2017.

So, what is it about? I hear you ask. Well, Lifesong I guess would fit best into the environmental science fiction category. But please don't let that put you off if sci fi is not your bag. It's not aliens and spaceships. Instead, it's a hauntingly beautiful love story of an alien woman who comes from a very different world from ours. A world where all live in harmony with the lifesong that flows through each and every thing. Suddenly, she finds herself on our world, a very different place, where we have no lifesong. A world hell bent on ecological suicide, a world where greed and self are worshiped. Travelling our planet, she sees much that shocks, disgusts and horrifies her and is left with the question - What kind of a world is this, that can treat itself so?

Lifesong will be available to pre-order from Amazon after the weekend and I really hope you enjoy it.

I have also had to go to hospital for some essential surgery, and am now at home convalescing. I hate hospitals, hate the whole stripping away of your dignity and privacy. I know it's essential, and that the nurses are doing an amazing job, a job I would not want for all the tea in China, but still I am very glad it's over and I'm now home. Especially as trying to sleep in a hospital is next to impossible. As noisy as a construction site, I was constantly startled awake by doors slamming, trolleys clattering, nurses shouting from one end of the corridor to the other and by the lady in the next bed (bless her, I know she couldn't help it) constantly ringing her bell for attention.

So here I am, home for at least two weeks to rest and recuperate, under strict doctors orders to do nothing physical, to just sit still and read and write. How. Absolutely. Awful!

Finally, do you remember the PE kit that went missing weeks ago? Well, it actually turned up! It was filthy and covered with mysterious stains so had obviously had an adventure, but it's back. Luckily, due to half term and the way my daughter's PE lessons fell, I'd only got round to replacing her trainers and rugby socks. As she needed new ones of those anyway, I consider myself lucky.

Anyway, that's it for now. Get in touch if you'd like to, would be great to hear from you. And look out for Lifesong, although I wrote it myself it is a very poignant, powerful tale, one that will make you really think about our world and what we're doing to it.