GOODBYE 2021

I'm going to be asking this question on Twitter but I'll ask, and answer it here in my blog too.

A. Highlights of your year 

B. Low points of the year

C. Regrets

D. What do you hope for in 2022?

A. For me, it was the fact that my family did get together at Christmas. I did complete NaNoWriMo, although the novel remains incomplete. I gained new friends both on line and in my local community, and my health is fine.

B. Bad news is always a low point and there has been a steady stream of that this year. For me personally? You know there hasn't been a really shocking event, but I was sad we couldn't go to France.

C.I would have liked to get my second book of The Farm trilogy out for Christmas but it couldn't be done. I always think I could have been more patient, more accepting and more encouraging. 

D. Check my end of year thoughts and plans for my 2022 writing. Also, I'd like to get an editor and a publisher for 'Over the Hills' before I finally cave in and put it on Amazon.

Finally - on a high note. We have booked our trip to France for 2022. Not sure if we'll get there but it's something to look forward to, for now.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

End of Year Status

So, despite the orb-shaped virus (that shall remain nameless and goodness knows what strain we'll be living under in the future), it's been a busy year both for my writing and in other aspects of my life. 

I haven't published anything since 'Black Mantle' but there are several WIPs that are nearing completion.

📙Scattering - Book 2 of The Farm series

This is in it's final edit before we launch it into the Indi-Universe, sometime early in 2022.

📘Reaping - Book 3 of The Farm series

Currently working through my final draft before I offer it up for diagnostic evaluation by SuperEd.

📗Anarii 

Stand alone novel about a Swiss village and a water goddess. Still trying to decide if this should be a YA novel or for an adult audience. I have rough drafts for each and I can't decide which to settle on.

📗Over The Hills 

YA story set during the Second World War in Southern France. The story of two teenagers, one, a German Jew avoiding the round-up of Jews by the Vichy authorities, the other, the daughter of a village doctor. Surrounded by Nazi spies and Marquis resistance fighters, the two decide on a course of action that could end in their deaths in the Pyrenees mountains.

📔First Draft - This Year's NaNoWriMo effort 'Maybe Next Time'

YA Time travel enables a girl to visit a village in 1913. Through regular trips, she becomes involved in a family's troubles and the effects that the First World War has on village life. The Spanish Flu is about to take the lives of many of villagers. Does she risk changing history to save a friend or watch them die?

SCATTERING - Final Edit

The survivors of the pandemic are beginning to imagine a better future, but a second wave of sickness, coupled with unrest in the cities brings new challenges for the people of The Farm and their neighbours. When Sheffield is once more in turmoil, Lexi finds herself at the centre of a desperate plan to restore order. Help comes from an unexpected source and the Laughton's are the key to solving a mystery.

Hopefully this will be published in the early part of 2022.

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