January Blues

I started the New Year with a new hair-cut....well a good trim if I’m honest. It was getting messy, which I mostly blame on having pulled so much of it out producing a fresh web site (oh the joys of transferring a domain from one provider to another, even if you think you own it!!) Still got there in the end....

Another New Year tradition I am adopting is a post-Christmas detox. Ergo, I’ve given up my coffee fix first thing and replaced it with hot water and lemon juice, cut alcohol (a bit) and started adding Epsom salts in my bath water. All this virtuous living is in the vain hope I can stave off cellulite from inhabiting my thighs as I have to get bikini-fit by April. In the meantime, in anticipation of ‘April Asia Getaway’ I have been making a holiday photo gallery on my fridge – I’m a great believer in escapism, and January is such a long month.

Since other half has decided to spend the long month in Australia, I have been consoling myself in creative endeavours (New Year’s Resolution being, ‘make more time for myself,’). This is a supreme effort to concentrate on getting A Feminine Crime published and into the marketplace, and spending more time on writing next novel and working on marketing. Believe me this is a MASSIVE task. I seriously wonder if I am the most disorganized person on earth. (I was only saved from sending my daughter to school with a raw bacon rasher in her sandwich recently, by a hair’s breadth of luck). Perhaps if I gave up sleep there would be time to achieve everything I’d like to fit in a day?

I’ve taken a fresh look at the book cover for Fair Game, drawing on the talents of friend and freelance photographer, Deborah Taylor, who will also be photographing the cover for A Feminine Crime. It’s been such a thrill working with her, and a privilege to have her artwork on my dustcovers. Check her out at http://www.deborahtaylorphotography.co.uk/

If you are interested in seeing some of the creative process involved and how the final product was achieved, please read Deborah's fascinating blog at https://dtaylordesign31.wordpress.com/