Out in a Ferrari

Yesterday my neighbour came to introduce himself  and we spent a pleasant half an hour discussing things over a mug of coffee.  later in the day he called round again to ask if I would like to have a go in his Ferrari.  How many times does that happen during the average Saturday? so without hesitation I took him up on his offer.

His Ferrari is a rare beast as it has four seats, known as a Mondial 2x2 it sports a 3.5l V8 engine that delivers not only 300 horses but a tyrannosaurus roar when the throttle is opened up.  With 0-60 in just a few seconds the car took off along the bypass leaving us both with huge grins splitting our faces.  What a rush of speed and what a sound.  Fantastic doesn't seem to sum up the experience, but I'm sure its one that I will have the opportunity to repeat again soon. 

Book sales

Hoorah!

Copies of my books have been selling this week.  The Witness and The Belgae Torc have both displayed an upward trend in both book and kindle format sales.
May people continue to purchase my books but more importantly enjoy reading them.  Please don't forget to leave positive feedback.

April update and a weather rant!

The weather here has turned quite cold in the south of England after a rather lovely couple of weeks.  Spring flowers continue to colour the gardens and blossom is appearing on trees, but the temperature has dropped and of course as a bank holiday weekend approaches the weather does not look at all promising.   At lease it’s not as bad here as in some parts of northern England. 

Anyway, rant over, so on the subject of my next novel, the third book in The Torc Trilogy, last week I actually managed to write 3000 words.  Because of moving house and all the upset that goes with that, I found that I have not had the head space to write.  Over the last few weeks I have managed to edit the first 30,000 words and begin to pick up the many threads running through the plot.  This enabled me to write last week, so hopefully now with this kick start I will be able to meet my new deadline of October.

I so want to complete this novel as I want to continue writing my next book.  It's called The Cellist and is the second in a group of novels which started with The Witness.  Each book in this group, (there will be five), overlap.  The idea is that they are not sequels but characters from one book turn up in the next and each storyline overlaps.  The books are in the Psychological Thriller genre quite unlike the Torc Trilogy which are historical/modern day and are Action Adventure stories.

Well enough about my books, wherever you are and whatever you have planned for the weekend, I hope you have fun and keep reading novels.

 

Back to work.

With the Easter holidays now almost a distant memory, its time to get back to work.
Unfortunately I mean 'the day job'. 
During the holiday I only managed to write about 1000 words.  I was hoping for much more, but there are still plenty of jobs that need doing around the house and garden.
At least by having time off work the plot for my next book began to flow again, all I need to do is keep the momentum going and complete the book.  My deadline was supposed to be Easter, but with moving house earlier this year I found I had no head space left for writing so now the regenotiated deadline is October, just in time for the christmas market!
I will let you know how it pregresses. 

Author interview by K.A.Cross

To find out more about me and my books, visit Kaylea's blog and read her interview.

http://k-a-cross.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/meet-author_16.html

 

This weekend I took a few pictures of the views across my garden and the fields.

The weather was good although a little chilly in the wind.

Spring has definitely arrived.

 

 

View across the fields from my bedroom window



Covered walkway runs along the back of the house.  Its great for sitting in out of the chilly wind

The rear of my house; bedroom window

 

Rear garden looking left

 

Rear garden looking right

Springtime in Kent

It's a beautiful day here in The Garden of England.

There was a thin layer of ice on my car this morning but the sun is now shining and the air is clear. I saw lambs in the fields as I drove to work today. The sheep closest to my village seem to have not started lambing yet, they do look rather heavy though so should produce offspring soon.

There was a full moon last night which bathed the land around my house with a gorgeous silver light, and I felt so privileged to live in such beautiful countryside.  Owls were calling to each other in the distant hedgerows and occasionally a night bird would call.  I am rather perplexed though, I have not yet seen evidence of rabbits, no droppings, holes in the banks beneath the hedges around my garden or half eaten undergrowth.  I wonder if this has something to do with the farming methods or is it because of the recent spell of cold weather.  Perhaps they are all curled up somewhere warm and will pop out soon. 

Good weather is forecast for this weekend, so I suspect spring gardening will be at the top of the jobs to do list.  Where ever you are, have a great weekend and enjoy what good weather you might have.