It's been a good year!

December arrived pretty quickly. Somehow the previous post didn't publish back when I wrote it. That's ok. It still shows my progress. This has been an amazing year for me, it's hard to think it took me this long to get this going and get into a routine of picking my brain for ideas and inspirations, and then following through on them.  

I finally transcribed and re-published "Twilight - A Collection of Poems"

which had been out of print since 2000. I'd had various requests for it over the years. It's on Amazon, Amazon UK and other Amazon outlets (I apologise for only having the direct links to the US and UK sites).

So far, my 2 most popular books have proven to be The Storybook Witch

(Amazon, Amazon UK) and 

In The Forest (Amazon, Amazon UK). I'm (naturally) thrilled that people are enjoying my books. 

I'm currently trying to work with an illustrator for Mister McAfferty's Cat but we don't seem to be making much headway, despite the artist making numerous revisions. I want an older gentleman that's appealing to children and, so far, all the renderings have been very unappealing. Not happy and content at all. I don't want a miserable scrawny looking old man. It may be that this won't work out, since I need 19 illustrations, and if we can't get the first one right then that doesn't bode well for the rest of the project. We shall see what prevails in the new year. I'm just getting over 2 weeks of being ill so didn't want to be stressing over it over Christmas and New Year.

But that's where I'm at, at the moment, with my writing. 

Then, I've been creating songs of some of my poetry, and some songs that I've written as songs, on an AI music creation site. My personal favourites list of my creations so far is here. They are different genres depending on the writing content, so some are gentle songs, some rock, some bluesy. I hope you like them, and it's a great site for young people (or oldies like me) who like to write and try setting their writings to music. I love it!

Have a wonderful weekend!