When I finish writing my latest book I usually take a couple of months break from any actual writing But that does not mean that writing has been dismissed from my mind completely. Ideas for the next novel will come to mind and by the end of that two months I will be ready to start developing the idea that has taken my fancy. I am at that stage now having had two months break since I sent the manuscript of A TAPESTRY OF DREAMS to my publisher, PIATKUS. I recently visited my publisher in London. I had two ideas in mind but after that contact I came away with another possibility. During the two hour train ride back to York that possibility had grown to the point where I contacted Piatkus the next day to say, that was the novel I would develop. After Easter I will start work on a brief outline and first Chapter to gain their final approval and contract. This is an exciting time for me – meeting, talking with and listening to new chief characters; others will appear as the story develops.
I hope soon to put the title of the new novel on a post here – I like to have a suitable title at the start of a new novel as it focuses my mind on the story.
