HUNTED is published, now I'm writing COPIED

 HUNTED is now published, and I hope readers enjoy it as much as MUTED and RESCUED. It's such a worry when you release a new book in case the story and characters you love are not appreciated by readers. As usual, it's a complicated, twisting plot with an emphasis on horses and romance. There are subplots, including the lives of the brumbies, and when Elise  tells her crystalline palace story to Andrea. 

I've started writing COPIED: When Winning is Everything, which is Book 4 in the series. If I wasn't such an apathetic procrastinator, it would be out in a few months, but, whatever. It's not that I sit around doing nothing - I babysit my grandson two days a week, I work with the horses, I'm trying to keep up the running each evening (just 2 - 5k, nothing amazing), and I end up not spending as much time writing as I'd like. 

It's nearly 6pm now, so time to feed the horses and go for a run. It's 600m to our mail box, so if I run that three times it gives me over 3k. I need to slash some running tracks up to the back of the farm because the grass is too long to run through at the moment. It's about 1.5k from the front to the back of our place, which may seem big but on the station it was about 20km from the front fence to the back, or more.

Hunted will be out soon!

A photo of me with my grandson Carwyn. 

 I'm waiting on some changes to the cover of Hunted (The Dimity Horse Mysteries #3) and then it will be available. I hope readers like it - I love it but that's not always a good indication of what readers will like.

 I've started Book 4 of the series, and hope to improve my output this year. It's too easy to become discouraged and disheartened, which slows everything down. Negative self talk is difficult to overcome. 

I've found running is helping with the positivity. Most evenings, I run 2 -5kms. Well, when I write 'run', I mean run+walk as at least a fifth of the distance is walking. It's been good to get the excess weight off, too, and enjoy running again. I want to ride more again, too. I'd like to have a go at winning some more national titles with the horses but I don't know how the 2022 shows will go with the pandemic - so many were cancelled last year. Maybe I'll aim for 2023. Or not. Maybe I'll just write - there are so many books to finish!