I'm back...

Back from holiday, refreshed and raring to go! Or something - it's tempting to just sleep in the sun... But! I have plans!

I have a new novel growing in my head - its working title is the Emperor's Assassin, and it's got a fairly complicated plotline, with intertwined timelines, flashbacks and multicharacter points of view. It's going to be fun to write, if I can pull it off without my brain exploding!

The old novel is sitting gently stewing while I decide whether it needs to be gutted or not. My first brave beta reader has finished it and apparently not got so bored her eyes have started to bleed, so that's encouraging, and her suggestions have been very helpful. Her eye for detail is second to none!

I still think it needs a new opening scene, and a better-written ending. But, while I'm pondering that, if anyone would desperately like to read it, let me know. (Anyone who's coming to my wedding is ineligible, on the grounds that if you're that close to me, I'd be too embarrassed to know you've read my warped imaginings. Not because I don't like you, or trust your opinions. It's all about me, obviously.)