Happy New Year.
Happy New Year, and what better way to begin than with some lucky white heather? Every January I tell myself I am going to do something different during the year. Usually I get to September/October, with nothing having been done and I decide it is too late to start for that year, but promise to get down to things once another new year is upon us. Will this year be any different? Possibly not, but I do have some incentive. I have a new publisher for my next novel, which is due out around October - a dark fantasy/horror set during an Arts Festival on a remote Scottish island. (Not sure where I get my inspirations from). I have a marketing guru friend who tells me the best time to begin marketing a book is before it is written, so I've missed the boat on that one, but I am already thinking up a strategy. Visiting the States isn't quite on the schedule, although perhaps Helmsdale, Auchterarder and Monrose. You may find some little snippets of the story find their way into a few of