This is a knitted squirrel from Jane Bolsover's knitted garden project - which inspired one element of the book. Visit www.bhkc.co.uk/data/the_knitted_garden_jbol.htm to see more of it!
Just 16 days to go...I'm not sure this countdown thing was such a good idea now!! It's scary! I was on holiday last week and spent a vast part of it slashing the wordcount of Scotch Pine and trying to make all my subplots join up. I'm now in the middle of the final typo-hunt and still on track to publish on Midsummer's Day. This is the exciting part - this and the moment the first book arrives from lulu.
It's going to be a chunky book (tho' hopefully it is all muscle!) at 390 pages - my longest so far - and I was worried that people might be reluctant to part with their hard-earned cash during these rather trying times just to find out what happens to Grouse, Partridge, Marmalade and the others. But, so far, I've racked up quite a few pre-orders from readers of the last two books - handing out promotional postcards was a good way of alerting people that it was almost ready to read. I'm not very good at the whole self-promotion thing, though: I get very embarrassed!
Best Cake? Although we loved Kings Lynn, it wasn't that hot in the cake-stakes (at least, not in the places we visited!) so my best cake this week is another Durham one: very fresh almond croissant in Cafe Nero - delicious! They were playing Vivaldi as well, so they get extra brownie points!
It's going to be a chunky book (tho' hopefully it is all muscle!) at 390 pages - my longest so far - and I was worried that people might be reluctant to part with their hard-earned cash during these rather trying times just to find out what happens to Grouse, Partridge, Marmalade and the others. But, so far, I've racked up quite a few pre-orders from readers of the last two books - handing out promotional postcards was a good way of alerting people that it was almost ready to read. I'm not very good at the whole self-promotion thing, though: I get very embarrassed!
Best Cake? Although we loved Kings Lynn, it wasn't that hot in the cake-stakes (at least, not in the places we visited!) so my best cake this week is another Durham one: very fresh almond croissant in Cafe Nero - delicious! They were playing Vivaldi as well, so they get extra brownie points!
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