About time too!
February 3rd, 2009
Sorry, I’ve been really remiss with my blogs! January went past in a haze as not only have I been thumping the keyboard on the new book, but Shortbread went a bit crazy after its launch in December and we’ve been running hard to catch up! It’s been really gratifying to see how it’s taken off, and I think at the last count we have over 900 members and the site has been accessed from over 80 countries. We were always worried that there was going to be some stories that weren’t quite up to scratch, but the quality of story writing has been phenomenal, and the team feel really priviledged that they’re up on our site! Of course, there have been a few problems – rather like Top of the Pops, some of our writers have been quite cunning in trying to get their stories to No. 1, but we have a very good ‘policeman’ who writes them a kindly letter, asking them to abstain from such practises!
We went to the Winter Words Literary Festival in Pitlochry last weekend to promote Shortbread and I was asked to be the compere for a number of writer events and had a great time with Anne Perry, Andrew Greig, Stephen McGinty and Kenneth Steven – all wonderful people and excellent writers in their own different fields. Kenneth has actually got some lovely stories up on Shortbread, three of them being recorded this month.
The writing is going well – hopefully first draft should be finished in the next two weeks and then I’ll be sitting with bated breath, waiting for the reaction from my publishers! In the meantime, onwards and upwards!