So how's your year going?
I know we haven't spoken in a while, but if you've been following my socials, you'll be fairly up to date. The last few months have seen me performing at zoom readings and even live on stage!
What a whirlwind releasing a book can be!
9 Months in and she still feels brand new in my hands, and yet I cannot deny that the ink has been flowing behind the scenes...
This year has already seen 5 new poems released to audiences through the pages of Punk Noir and Sledgehammer, and yet more to come in the next few months along with an exciting announcement I am not yet able to make - shhhhh!
I can however confirm that I am working on a new collection, alongside the novel, which is beginning to take a very interesting shape. Much like With Love, it takes a journey through some interesting spaces, looks back with yearning and moves forward with shaking knees. I am very excited about this project and am considering sending out a few poems on submission before presenting the completed collection to publishers. So keep your ears to the ground and I may be able to tell you more soon!
In all honesty it has felt somewhat difficult to balance promoting With Love and tending to budding submissions and invitations to read at events, I suppose that is the paradox of writing at work, the lone writer, whose habitat is the solitude of their thoughts and their keyboad, is forced into the helter-skelter world of book promotion and guest readings and people! Argh!
But I will bear this gladly and gratefully, I am very blessed to be a writer with a growing audience and I shall not take you forgranted! Just know that every time you see that awkward side-grin steal over my face on screen or on stage, I am doing this for you!
I'll check in with you again soon, friends! Feel free to drop by my Insta for more regular updates.
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