Notes on a Writing Life / 50

Notes on a Writing Life / 50    
June 14 2023

Dear All,

This is going to be the shortest newsletter ever, as I am about to flit across the Pond to France and then England.  We’re also coming up to number 50!  I can’t believe I’ve kept this going for so long; but it is still a pleasure, and all the more so for the messages and encouragement I get back from readers in return. Thank-you!

It’s mango season in the land of the mango eaters and I’m knocking back as many as I can before I leave.  There’s nothing like a mango warm from the sun, its thick freckled skin peeled off over the sink, and a bite into it that feels like a juicy kiss.  Mmmm.

News of my upcoming novel: “Bone Whispers” is at last in production with Epicenter Press in Seattle, and should be out by 2024.  It’s about England after the second World War, about children caught up in something beyond their understanding, about the reckonings that come with adult life.  It’s set in Dorset, in a place I love, and its inception came from a local shop-keeper (who is in the book) asking me a few years ago why I don’t set a novel right there.

Apart from that – and there’s nothing to do to it right now – I’m taking the summer off.  Unless, as it so often happens, in the midst of doing nothing, an idea pops up and I’m off to the races again…

Next month, I’ll be celebrating le quatorze juillet with you, in place.

Affectionately, Ros