Six days to go… and what inspires me!
I’m keeping up the pace, revising, revising, revising, ready to get ‘The Stalking of Rosa Czekov’ published next week. What keeps me going… many things inspire me but here are what really keeps me going:
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The Easthope stories
Most of my novels are set in and around the fictional seaside town of Easthope.
Counting down… 8 days to go!
I really am on the last lap now… I am doing one last read through of The Stalking of Rosa Czekov’. Even though I have been working so hard on it recently I came across “he was was staring at her,” today. There are other little things too… and I’ve got in such a muddle about commas […]
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Reading aloud
It’s the last lap now, doing the last that I can to make ‘The Stalking of Rosa Czekov’ as good as I can.. It’s so difficult to be objective about something I am so familiar with, I must have read it tens of times, I have watched it in my head, lived with it… but to gain objectivity, to spot the grammatical errors that spellcheck doesn’t throw up, to notice the […]
MoreIt’s getting serious… last editing going on NOW!
It’s June tomorrow… and at some point – I’ll let you know when, ROSA will be published on Kindle. So I am now in the last stages of editing, because as a self-publisher I have to do all that myself… and it’s tricky. I have to admit there were some typos and errors in ‘Farholm’ but I […]
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In the press!
This a repost of a previous blog: I was very grateful to my local newspaper, the Weston Mercury for publishing this article and my photo: They are not quite correct in saying that FARHOLM is based in the real islands of Steep Holm and Flat Holm, although I used their Scandinavian names. If anywhere, Rathlin […]
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Lois Elsden 