Summer is coming and the weather certainly feels like it is headed that way at last. May saw my birthday – another year older, probably not another year wiser! Maybe a coincidence, but I’m noticing an increase in age in my characters. Often the heroines at least have been in their teens when the book starts and only in their twenties when it finishes. But my main WIP sees a heroine in her mid-twenties, while the next Women of the Dark Ages book will follow a woman from her late teens through to her 60s!

Birthday celebrations

Progress report

Lots of good progress to report on all books this month. The next Mysteriously Medieval is onto its edits. It will soon be time to think about the cover & title reveal. Meanwhile I am creating a plan for the book that will come next in the series. This series is proving to be one rich in inspiration as I have yet another idea to add to my list for future books.

The next in the Women of the Dark Ages is at over 26,000 words and yet I feel the story has barely begun. I have long assumed it will take two books to properly tell her story. I’m now wondering if it might be three. This could be problematic as there is a natural break in her story that slots it easily into two. I’m not sure how I will break it up if it takes three.

Tales of the Wasteland book 3 is now at 30,000 words. Slow and steady and will get there in the end!

Bargains

Beat the cost of living crisis and get your holiday reads for less. As always several of my books are on a Kindle Countdown Deal this month. Just click on the titles to find out more.

Rising from the Ruins 27th May – 3rd JuneCall of the Viking Dead 4th – 11th JuneThree Times the Lady 12th – 19th JuneDawn of the Franks 20th – 27th JuneFisher King 28th June – 5th July

Teasers!

With Mysteriously Medieval bk2 coming on so well, perhaps it’s time to start to hint at what’s in it. Earlier this week I paid a visit to the location where it is set…

Looks like an idyllic spot, doesn’t it? But perhaps all is not as it seems…