Tuesday, July 10, 2012

It's been a long long time (But kiss me once)

A very long time indeed -- and I’m not about to make excuses, but reasons? Simple. One reason only; I have been adjusting to widowhood. Two and a half years now, and still tough. But I wrote another book, I live on a different continent, a new computer, a new motorbike, and now a new book, due out in November.
Life does indeed go on. As yet in light with many shadows, as the metamorphosis of a  wife of thirty-six years and three months and three days to being a widow is ... I have no word for the state of just-getting-through-it-as-best-you-can.
I like the word ‘widow’. No messing around with that word. Like a knife to the heart.  In some cultures it is a taboo status, the widow as pariah, but the road towards ‘Merry Widow’ is the one I choose to take. Because my marriage was one of great joy, I hope to continue to love life and dance and travel and eat and swim and yes, write.
So, personal update (AKA excuses) out of the way, the books. The third in the Highland Gazette series is due out in November.
Beneath the Abbey Wall,  is out on the 13th of November, and I am now spending far too much time on the internet trying to work out how to travel the vast lengths of the USA on a book tour ...in yes, November, into December when I presume my woody undies will be needed.
I am also write the next book in the series. Just like that -- writing a book. If only it were so easy.
The working title is Mayday, Mayday but as my working titles have never made it past the experienced eye of Marketing people,  I don’t expect this one to either.
So (and I am notorious for not keeping commitments) I will endeavor to make this blog a record of the vicissitudes of an author immersed in a work in progress. Plus hopefully I will shame myself out of terrible procrastination (beach, motorbike rides, friends, beach...lying around doing not an awful lot)
But this much I do know ...I like Mae Bell, i can live with her for a while, this American woman who has turned up in the Gazette office searching for her information about her husband who was lost at ...no, better stop there. This is a blog about a work in progress and the many diversions to writing ---especially for a writer who lives in a small village in Viet Nam with a river at the bottom of the garden.
Until next time, aa’ the best.

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I'd love to hear from you, can't promise to get back to you, but will promise to try to answer questions ...except about typos --teh bane of my life.
Aa' the best.