Hello fellow void inhabitants,
How is the world treating you? Nicely, I hope.
How is the world treating me? I can hear you all shout from the rooftops. (in my clearly overactive imagination anyway!) Well it's been a busy time. From decorating our house and getting it to a point of it looking FINISHED. To then deciding to move house, as soon as we laid the final brush stroke on the walls. It's been a bit hectic. But the move is now in the hands of the solicitors. We are keeping fingers, toes, even hair crossed it processes smoothly.
We are moving to an Edwardian built house which requires renovation, It's also mahoosive! We love it and I am sure I will be sharing many snaps on Instagram as we go.
I also dabbled in home-schooling whilst schools were shut during lockdown in the UK. I learnt all manner of things that I never previously knew and my respect for teachers grew exponentially. My 6 year old son, became adept at sneaking a toy to the table with him, ready to deploy whenever I became distracted for even a millisecond. Our dog also became accustomed to a 9.15am stroke from the school workers. He would wander in like clockwork and lean against them both until they lavished all the ear scratches and butt pats required to fulfil his floofy dreams.
I even managed to squeeze in work on some books!
I had my book beta read by another aspiring author, who pointed out some areas for improvement. Including pointing out my tendency for waffle. So I removed some parts which didn't move the story on and also added a few scenes which will drive the story in a more interesting way and it's being read again by others. Mr GH.B is also reading and editing when he can.
Whilst I am (impatiently) waiting for this, I decided to write a series of short stories which I'm thinking of making available for free-undecided yet. They are based on an idea which, as usual, struck me unexpectantly...
What if...
Work with me here...
What if the The Horsemen of the Apocalypse weren't actually male but female? I reckon they'd be pissed with Humanity, for being portrayed incorrectly for thousands of years.
Expect some fierce and extremely opinionated ladies, tons of snark, many jokes and some hot scenes.
Each HorseWOMAN will have their own story; War, Pestilence, Death and Famine and then a final story tying them all together, which will probably include - you guessed it - an Apocalypse.
I have so far finished writing War and Pestilence. And let me tell you, War is a fucking badass. I'm not ashamed to admit she scared me a few times in her 10,000 word story.
Pestilence is more of a lazy plague slinger, who prefers to argue on the bottom half of the internet then bother with much else.
The other two have been planned as well. Death will be a naïve Twi-Hard and Famine is going to be a lush.
I find it all extremely hilarious and hopefully some of you will too!
I am also 10,000 words into book 2 of my main series. They will all be standalone stories of different people, but linked together with a main story thread.
I really want book 1 to be out soon. I will keep posting updates when I can.
That's it for now.
See you in hyperspace.
GH
xx