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I am so excited that my latest book has just reached the end of the first drafting stage. It is a more complex and multilayered book than I have ever written before with many new characters. At the moment it has a working title that I don’t want to share as it gives away a big secret, but you can be sure that I’ll share it here first as soon as I have a better one.

My favourite character that I’ve written so far is Yardin, who appears in ‘The Witch Woman’s Prophecy’. I tried so hard to make a character that would surprise the reader and I think that I have succeeded, judging by the comments I’ve had about her on Wattpad. And that’s a true thing!

I have posted another story onto Wattpad which you can find here This was a fun story to write and as I limited it to a thousand words it mean that I had to make every single word count. The garden in the story was inspired by my grandmother’s. Gran grew beautiful flowers but surrounded them with random pieces of junk to keep the neighbourhood cats off the flower beds. You might see parts of old cookers, yoghurt cartons or shoes surrounding her favourite dahlias!

Hey you, what’s happening?

I’ve just put one of my short stories up on Wattpad. It’s a fun little story that I wrote after seeing a photo of an anglo-saxon woman doing some spinning and wondering what her life might be like. The story doesn’t end quite how you think it will at first…

My NaNo novel will follow on Wattpad soon. I’ll let you know when we have lift off!

Hello my lovelies!

After a good break it’s time to get down to editing the second draft of the NaNo novel. I’ve had time to lots for thinking and planning over the holiday season and I’m ready to add lots of twists and surprises.

How did you spend your holidays?

It’s now over the 65K word mark. I’m writing much more slowly than I did in November, but I’ve been spending a lot of time refining details in the plot and establishing how the characters are growing and changing.

I’d love to tell you about all the things that happen, but I don’t want to spoil the surprise. All I can tell you at the moment is that the more I write the more I discover there is to write! I’m so looking forward to getting it ready to share with you all.

Anni X

I’m so excited to be starting on my first NaNoWriMo!

I have an idea that has been wandering around inside my head looking for a chance to escape and make itself known to the world for the last couple of years and now is its chance.

Can I manage 1,667 words a day for the whole of next month? It seems a tough thing to do, but I’m going to give it my best shot. Tune in for updates throughout the month…

Anni X

I wonder how many of you have discovered BookCrossing?

It’s an amazing social network for books and book lovers. If you have never found a BookCrossing book then just head over to their site at BookCrossing.com now and take a look and see where you can find some.

The basic idea is that you donate a book to BookCrossing, register it and put a sticker in it with a BookCrossing id. You then place it somewhere to be found (you can hide nearby and watch what happens if you are nosey!). When somebody picks it up and discovers it is a free book, they can take it away with them. This is known as a ‘controlled release‘. Hopefully the finder will set up an account, if they don’t already have one, and add your book to their journal by quoting the id from your sticker. This way you can see who has found your book and where it travels to. The finder can also rate and review the book.

It is free to join and use BookCrossing. If you want to support them you can make a donation or buy supplies, such as stickers for your books. You can, of course, print your own stickers to add to the books you ‘release‘.

You can also find and set up BookCrossing zones. Two or three cafes near to where I live have shelves where you can leave and take books. Members arrange social gatherings at these zones to swap books and chat.

I recently went to a BookCrossing Unconvention and met so many people, from different countries, who loved books and reading, and were also generous to pass their books along to others when they had finished with them. I can’t think of a nicer bunch of people to spend time with and have made lots of new friends.

Give it a try, free books and new friends. What’s not to like?