This blog is more like a private diary at the moment, but I'm going to carry on posting as if there is actually an audience out there. I'm hoping that I can attract some attention to my book, and this is really to document the process, whether it be successful or not.

My profession is software development, something I've done pretty much continuously since university, except for the time I took out to write Earthdream. For the most part I've always enjoyed this big chunk of my life, and I'm rather proud of the product I'm working on at the moment, which is in the area of public health. The trouble is that programming tends to take over your entire brain. The rational side easily dominates and leads Reason to suffocate one's more delicate Intuition! This is the way it's been for a good few years now, working too many hours to get my small software company off the ground.

But with the help of a very talented and enthusiastic team of young people it is beginning to fly now, and the burden no longer sits so heavily on my shoulders alone. This year I've begun to use my bike to cycle either to or from work, and instead of sitting on the train working on the laptop, I've taken to reading. What a joy it's been. For logistical reasons, so I don't have to carry a pack on the bike (my route is very hilly so there is an incentive to travel as light as possible!), I've currently got several books on the go, keeping a reserve at home and at the office so I'm never without something to read. I'm rather enjoying this experience of dipping in and out of a number of books simultaneously. It helps that they are all quite different.

Enjoying my reading so much has I think played a big part in wanting to see Earthdream being read again. It's message is just as relevant as ever. I really want to know if my book is able to convey that message in a meaningful way. I may end up having to face the fact that it isn't, that it gets lost in simply too many words and ideas. If I'm honest, that is my fear. But I need to find out one way or the other. I can report that I've made a start writing my review ... but it's slow going at the moment.