As belated as it is, welcome to 2023!
It's March already and the last two months have flown by. I hate to think how fast the rest of the year will pass, to be honest. The scary thing about time passing is that you try to keep up with everything and then discover months have gone without you really noticing. Case in point... my newsletter. I keep reminding myself to send one but get sidetracked. I think it's been well over a year now. If you find yourself here somehow and you'd like to sign up to a very infrequent, non-spammy NL, please groove on over to the front page. I really do want to get onto a more regular monthly NL, even have the topics outlined too. Latest news here: My writing buddy, Slinky, died in January. Thankfully for my motivation, I'd finished the draft of Southern Dreams the day before losing him. Slinky was the cutest black cat, with Burmese somewhere in his bloodline, and a flatter nose than our other cats. He would lie across my laptop/notebook/lap/chest to get snuggles. His gorgeous noises and random 'scare me half to death' appearances are sorely missed. It's weird not having my buddy to cuddle up with (or trip over). Ten years with him was just not enough. As a result, and work being constant, the process of typing up my draft has taken a little longer. As of now, March 5th, I have about 10K left to type up. After this comes self-editing, adding Slinky's personality to some of Finley's 10 cats, and cleaning it up for betas. More read throughs, tweaks, and edits, and I hope that June will be the month for release. In the meantime though, I have the cover for Southern Dreams done and ready. The revamped cover for Pineapple Dreams too, which I'll reveal soon. And ... a bunch of short pieces done in the writers' group I run each fortnight. They'll be bonuses for NL subscribers. So, that's the latest, and not so greatest, news from Down Under.
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AuthorAria Peyton is a mum of three, non-wife to one, pet-mum to many. Zany, crazy but never quite fitting in, she loves to write about all kinds of things! And her characters get up to naughtiness behind closed doors... and other times not so private! Archives
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