Wendy's Writing World
“When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.”
Dear Reader,
I’m in my study, listening to my husband Peter growl at Pat the Cat. Pat is getting into trouble because one of his life’s delights is to get behind our fragile aluminium venetian blinds to enjoy the sunlight. He is doing a far better job destroying them than our two grandsons did when they at the toddler stage and into everything. With his big personality, Pat is the most weird (perhaps psychotic is a more apt description!) cat I have ever owned. Poor Patrick. Being abandoned at less than four weeks has really affected his psyche. But he knows when he has crossed the line with his behaviour. Pat stretches out in his submissive pose and looks at us with an adorable expression that always melts my heart. Not too certain if my husband feels the same. Yes, Pat greeted my arrival home after my long stay in London as my husband’s sweet homecoming gift, but Peter isn’t really a pet person. But — as Patrick would test the most patient of pet owners — perhaps I am wrong about that.
All is moving in the right direction with my new novel project. Since I’m already over 10000 words, which is always a magic number for me, I just know I will climb this new mountain.
AND for some good news to end this writing year.
Shades of Yellow — my novel about writing a Tudor novel — will be published by Other Terrain Press, a new publishing imprint starting early next year, come September 7th.
Very excited about that.
Smile, did you know you can already add Shades of Yellow to your reading list at Goodreads?
About Shades of Yellow:
Lucy Ellis has faced more than her fair share of challenges in the past five years. After battling breast cancer, she found solace in writing a novel about the mysterious death of Amy Dudley, the first wife of Robert Dudley, the man who came close to marrying Elizabeth I. As Lucy delves into Amy's story, she also navigates the aftermath of her own near-death experience and the collapse of her marriage. Taking a leave from her teaching job to research in London, Lucy is confronted with the possibility of a second bout of cancer. Fleeing to England rather than face that, Lucy must come to terms with her fears and find a way to finish her novel. Can she find the strength to confront her past and take control of her own destiny?
Time is running out to enter.
OZ and NZ writers with unpublished YA HF novels, want to be mentored? Why not submit here https://shorturl.at/9xUWO And for a lengthly discussion of the YA novel that situates The Light in the Labyrinth as such, here's the pertinent chapter from my PhD: https://shorturl.at/sx0Kr
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