Okay. I had a nice holiday – a few days off around Xmas and then a week at beautiful Yamba on the NSW north coast (Google it). I am back at work now, although it is hard getting back into the swing of things.

The Princess & The Travelers is still progressing – it is now the longest book I have ever written, for what that is worth. (over 160k) At this stage I can’t see it getting published until February – the length is adding like a month to the timetable sorry folks. Despite the title the Romans only play a small part in the story… just the way it went….

I have now retired from my graphic design position to be a full time author. So I am now dependent on you guys!!
Being full time will mean I should be writing more although how much more is still to be determined. Up until now I have been writing 1500 words a day in the main story and usually another 500 words in something else every day – 7 days a week. I would do the 1500 session before starting the graphic design and the 500 late in the day or at night. I am leaning toward keeping the total weekly word count roughly the same but using the extra writing time I now have to enable me to have a day off a week… that is one idea, anyway. Another is that I keep working as I was but upping the word count to 1500 + 1000 (I find 1500 to be about the limit for a single writing session) and simply take a day off whenever I want to or feel in need of a break. Not having the pressure of the graphic design work 5 days a week will take me a while to adjust to and it will probably be a couple of months before I come up with the optimum work pattern.

I hope you all had a good Xmas and that 2023 proves to be a happy and profitable year for all of you.

Peter