Monday, 28 September 2009
Several readers have been nice enough to respond to my Dartmoor blog and now I realise, with horror, how long it has been since I last updated my website blog, due solely to current pressures on my work schedule.
Sorry, folks…especially those readers who regularly inquire about my next book. I am still here, writing seven days a week, and for those who have asked about my health, I am glad to report I am fighting fit and working as hard as ever. Writing fiction, as I found out long ago, is a full time job. I have delivered a new novel since TWILIGHT HOUR and am just embarking upon the next one. I have also signed a new contract with my publishers, Little, Brown. More about that, though, at a later date…for now it is under wraps.
I am safely back in Kensington since my longed for return from the wilds of Devon to which I vanished for half a year while my flat was being entirely rebuilt and refurbished. The architect and builders did a great job, knocked down walls and installed a glass roof-light which gives the illusion of summer the whole year through. It is also spectacular when it thunders or snows.
The cats have adjusted to city living and seem not to miss their wild summer of carnage though, whenever a visitor from Dartmoor appears, they act doleful and plead to be taken back there to their baby shrews, rabbits and (once) a fully grown pheasant.
Here they have their own private terrace plus access to the neighbouring flat via a long and dangerous windowsill, five floors up. They also have five flights of stairs to explore when they feel adventurous and make regular trips to the lobby to visit the porter.
I sit peacefully at my computer, working, and gaze across the Kensington skyline to the friendly trees of Holland Park …and I don’t miss the country one bit! The dull roar of traffic is reassuring instead of the mournful mooing of Dartmoor cows.
Thank you for your continuing interest. When there is further news, I will let you know.
