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I'm working hard on the finishing touches of a new novel right now. It's a French-English themed mm queer romance. I chose the image for this blog because the view from this café in Brum reminds me of being in Paris - the art nouveau touches, and - if you could see them - the retro interior of the café itself with its old staircase winding up through the building. Everything was going well until the project manager of the launch had to pull out following a personal life challenges, at least...

Arcana Anthology

I missed going to the book launch for the new 'Arcana' Anthology. But I managed to pick up my copy at the writers' group last week.

I have a piece in the anthology called 'Rabindranath Bodhisattva'. I'm enjoying dipping in and savouring the different pieces, each one inspired by a different Tarot card.

Its available from Amazon: ...

I felt that there wasn't enough romance in my blurb, so I've added some! Here it is with added romance:

19-year-old Joe Coffin lives with his parents at Green Twining Farm, a place of bad memories and angry ghosts, which block Joe’s every move. His workmate at Scawthorpe Town Hall, David, to whom Joe feels romantically drawn, has a past which isn't what it seems, but if it became known to the wrong people could destroy what little standing in the town he still has.

When an unpredictably odd...

Here is my alternative new blurb for Green Twining:

When an unpredictably odd friend of a friend comes to stay at the farm, bringing with him his own...

I've been writing the new novel for about a year now. It started out as a fairly simple romance but the more I 'discovered' about the characters, the more complex the narrative became. I suppose that's what happens when you have characters living with neurodivergence. You have to work out what comes from where and how characters with different divergencies interact and fail to interact.

I'm having a break from it now, and letting it all sink in. Meanwhile, I'm reading about trauma, and Queer...