Publication Day

Well the day has come ... 29th March 2012 ... and I hope you will allow me a warm glow of satisfaction mingled with the terror. It is publication day. I've emailed about 400 of my LinkedIn contacts - (some are people that I really don't know that well) - and I have been overwhelmed by the kind comments and messages of support that I've had. Email, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter have all brought me an avalanche of messages - I even had a card through the mail from our friends in Bangor. So this is just to say, 'Thank You' to everyone. 


Thank you to Sue for putting up with me while I write. I know that writing can be a grumpy business. Thanks too for being my first reader. I really value your insights. I love you. You are the best.


Thank you to Jon for being my most constructive and critical reader (and also my most supportive). You are a better writer than I am Son. I couldn't do this without your help and encouragement. Thank you Zoe for being so supportive. It really means a lot. More than I can say. 


Thank you to Stan for discovering my manuscript among a pile on your desk that grows by fifty unsolicited manuscripts a day. If you hadn't spotted me I'd still be scribbling away - but no one would be reading. 

Thank you to Kirsty for being the best editor in Britain. Your edits are so brilliant they are scary. Your insights are profound. And you are so fiercely diligent (I mean that in a nice way). You've been so supportive - I owe you so much.


Thanks to Rebecca and Sophie and Claire and Jon Small and all the team at Orion Books. What an amazingly professional and likeable team of people. You guys totally rock. 


Thank you to Dimi and to everyone who has spammed the Internet with news about the book. You've been fantastic.


Thank you to you for reading my blog. I do hope you like the book. If you don't, I will crawl away somewhere and hide until the whole business is forgotten. If you do like it, please post a review on Amazon and please drop me a note to tell me. Invite me to your book group. We writers need that encouragement. 


Thank you to Maximilian Ponder. You may be fictional, but you were pretty real to me for the years when I was writing. I'm sorry you had to die. 


So thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Please hang around for Book Two ...


(BTW: I thought I needed more pictures. This is our dog Poppy. I sort out plot tangles in my head while I'm walking her. Thank you Poppy).