Shh...

Don't tell anyone but I've just set up laptop in the garden to work on Book 2 ALL MORNING!

Lost and Found

Printing off Witherstone Book 2: The Hunt Begins with progress so far to take on holiday and grab the opportunity of Time at last, and get back into Hephzibah Creswell's world.

Just have to remember to staple the pages together as the webcam shows that beach is lookin pretty windy...!

Time.

Spending too much of it on all the wrong things. Some of them are worthwhile doing, like the day job for instance, and building bee hives, and reading other writers' work and giving them feedback, and spending time doing Stuff with them indoors over the holidays, but when was the last time I wrote anything? It was so many weeks ago I can't remember. Think about it a lot though, especially in the middle of the night when I should be sleeping.

Love this. Crack open the wine Bernard.

interesting!

Well, that was interesting! Some nice comments came out of the YTB Bookclub discussion of Witherstone, and a few of these are:

§         loved this, and particularly liked that the family were an ordinary working family. I liked the character of Grandad Creswell, a sort of curmudgeonly socialist!

(which prompted this on Twitter -  RedScareBot Robot J. McCarthy
@Commies R here! RT @siancummins #yettobebooks 'a sort of curmudgeonly socialist' - http://tinyurl.com/6eyp7e9   - lol !!)

But back to the discussion...

§         there was a strong political string to the book, with Grandad Creswell and Grandma tugging not-neccesarily-opposite ends of it

§         It’s an enormously tense story, but with very careful detail that is very interesting and balances the powerful surge of the main plot

-      I mean detail in the sense of elemental happenings I think, rather than overdescription…there’s none of that. You can reach out and touch things in the story, so the characters’ ordinary lives are of as much interest as the unordinary things that happen to them.

o        I read the book as an adult without feeling it was written for a younger person and not for me, but could also see that it would be compelling and readable to someone of 9 – late teens.



So how does it work as part of a series?

-   ... it works very well as a stand-alone, but at the same time – knowing there are more – I’m gagging to see what happens next!

Favourite characters...?

- Grandad Creswell and Eppie – angry socialist grandad who makes a lot of sense, and tenacious, layered, likeable main character

And more from Twitter...

#yettobebooks 'I think the book is really exciting'- http://tinyurl.com/6eyp7e9

#yettobebooks the “truth” is always more complex than a simple one-side or the other'- http://tinyurl.com/6eyp7e9

Fabbo.