CYPRUS BLUES - MY NOVEL

A big thank you to my technical manager, John Knutson, who has posted the revised version of my first novel, Cyprus Blues, back onto my blog, plus a beautiful photograph of Kyrenia Harbour, which we took when we went to Cyprus a few years ago. (You can read the report that I wrote of my first visit to the Turkish occupied Northern Cyprus after nearly 30 years if you type in the title "Drinking our way round Cyprus.")

I decided to revise the novel before entering it into The Good Housekeeping Novel Competition, which closes at the end of March. I didn't need to re-edit much but I wanted to be confident that what I was sending was the best that I could write at this moment in time.

Since reporting on the competition, there has been much interest shown according to my stats information concerning hits on my blog. Have I shot myself in the foot by doing this? I should imagine that competition will be extremely stiff so I can only wait and hope.

Anyway, if you want to read the novel, you can do so on my blog and if you do, I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

I am now working on my second novel – a murder mystery set in a school in Winchester – Winchester Blues. I'm having a lot of fun writing it because I'm writing what I want to read and I'm basing a lot of my characters on people that I know/knew and situations in schools but I've experienced. It's definitely pay back time!