Emma Munday cover titles...

My go-to designer, Andy Bloor, has sorted out the titles for the book now. 

And I'm very happy with what he's done. It feels nice and sci-fi-ish.

I just need to finish writing it now 😊

And then when it's printed I'll have a little pile of them, looking a bit like this...

One day...

Emma Munday - First Impressions

When my daughter Jemma was about 5 and I was reading her a bed time story, probably a Roald Dahl book, I thought to myself. 

"Wouldn't it be cool if I wrote her a book myself."

And so, every year I picked up Emma Munday's first story and added a bit. And changed the bit that I'd already written.

The trouble is that most of my free time was spent writing comic book stories or colouring in pages of artwork for comic books I'd written.

The years passed.

This year I am determined to finish it and commissioned Ian Ashcroft to do me a wraparound cover image.

I'm very happy with the result.

Yes, it's a science fiction story.

Yes, although it took me years to write Book 1 I have the next 3 books already planned in my head.

The next step is to get my go-to designer Andy Bloor to work out the title fonts etc.

Oh, and for me to finish the book of course.

And my editor, my daughter Jemma (and no, I didn't hold this up until she was old enough to edit the book I wrote for her... I really don't plan that far ahead) will then make it better 😆

Writer's retreat.

I've been writing a book for about 20 years. 

It started when my daughter was about 5, I thought it would be good fund to read her something I'd written amongst all those greats by Roald Dahl and the like. It's a Science Fiction tale, of course.

I wanted to see if she noticed 😀

Every year since then I've picked it up once or twice. Re-read, improved what I had and added another chapter.

I realised, and accepted, recently that at this rate I'm never going to compete it. And then I got chatting to a writer at the LFCC event earlier this year. 

She suggested that I needed to get away from the house and leave everything behind except what I needed for the book.

What a great idea.

I did exactly that and booked an AirBnB in Deal, Kent. I chose that as it meant I could also visit my parents whilst I was down there as they would be only 30 minutes away.

My window faced the sea and it was nice watching the waves come in and go out, mesmerising at times.

Despite that lovely distraction I did write quite a few chapters, and managed to get a few nice walks in along the coast.

..usually at night when I'd finished writing.

Did I finish it? 

Well... No.

But I'm closer 😉