Odd couple of weeks, I had the unpleasant experience of going into hospital for some quite invasive surgery. I won't go into gory details, needless to say, it is not on my top ten list of things I like to do. Oh, and we also found out I'm allergic to morphine - the hard way.

So now I'm resting and recovering at home and, despite the pain and inconvenience of not being able to move about, I must admit to quite enjoying this time of stillness and quiet pursuits. I've read a lot, plowed quite a way through my TBR pile and cranked out a few, long overdue reviews. I've done a lot of promoting and marketing of The Book of Eve, trying to make more people aware of it. Also, of course, I worked on the release of my second book, Lifesong.

And it's here, today is my book's birthday, all shiny and new with its gorgeous bright yellow cover lighting up my kindle. I really hope people buy it and, more importantly, enjoy it. We have a long history, Lifesong and I, from its earliest conception in the 1990's, when the vocal music of Adiemus was sweeping the charts and it triggered a thought in my head about a whole world living in harmony to music.

This rattled around my skull for years until in 2005 I saw a listing for the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future novella competition, the vague notion coalesced into a thought, which solidified into a plot and thus Lifesong was born. It took six months of writing, polishing, editing and re-editing until I was happy enough with it to put it in a crisp white envelope and send it off. Not expecting anything, I was thrilled when it was very highly placed, achieving a certificate of merit and a personal letter from the judges telling me how much they enjoyed it and not to give up on my writing,

Flash forward to 2017, I wanted to try my hand at kindle self-publishing, and felt it would be sensible to start with something small, Then I remembered Lifesong, a few tweaks, a little editing and some 1500 extra words later, it was ready to publish and here it is, my second novel.

On a more bizarre note, my website was recently hacked by an anti Isis organisation! I think it must have been a random hack, otherwise surely they'd have chosen a site with more traffic than that of a struggling author? My 13 year old daughter thought it was the coolest thing ever, photoed it and proceeded to snapchat it to everyone she knows. I was not so impressed, and whilst I might have agreed with the sentiment behind them, could have done without the offensive images and obscenities that were now splattered all over my website. Thankfully, the guys who maintain my website were able to remove the images and so now I'm all squeaky clean again.

That's it for this time, guys, as always, any comments are always much appreciated, and if any of you do have a spare £1.99 and fancy a good read, why not treat yourself to a copy of Lifesong, it really it rather lovely, even if I do say so myself!

Till next time...