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Happy Halloween!

IMG_2122Also known as NaNoWriMo Eve!

I’ve not decided if I’m going to be doing NaNoWriMo this year – between work, family life and studying towards my degree, time to write is scarce at the moment.

That said, I’ve been reading my way through the fantastic Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody, based on the books by Blake Snyder. Brilliant resource for every writer, no matter what your experience or choice of genre(s). I’m hoping it’ll help kick start my writing mojo as it seems to have disappeared under the pressure of everything else.

In release news, the whole of the Knights and Brides trilogy is now available to buy exclusively from Amazon, and 10th November brings the final novel in The Realm of Larnasia trilogy. War of the Realms concludes the series in a hopefully satisfactory way so fingers crossed its readers enjoy it.

That’s all from me for now… Happy writing to those of you taking part in NaNoWriMo – whether you’re a plotter or a pantser, I wish you every success in hitting your 50,000 words!

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Release Round-Up…

It’s been a busy couple of weeks and that looks set to continue over the next few weeks. So, a round-up of recent releases from my little corner of the Internet…

 

Two of the above books are already available – Larnasia’s Heir and A Knight to Remember.

Larnasia’s Heir is the first in The Realm of Larnasia trilogy and is YA fantasy. Book two, Larnasia’s Queen, is available to pre-order now. Click here for more info.

A Knight to Remember is the first in the Knights and Brides series. It’s a contemporary romance with a big healthy helping of female friendship. It was released earlier this month and the second novel in the series, Knight and Day, will be out on the 1st September and is available to pre-order now. Click here for more info on this series.

The final book in each series will be published in October so expect more news about those shortly!

 

 

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Introducing The Realm of Larnasia…

That’s right, the first novel in The Realm of Larnasia is now available!

Published under the pen name GR Taylor, the trilogy is a fantasy series that follows the journey of Princess Alivia Farican from servant girl to Queen and beyond.

It’s a story 10+ years in the making, and I’m both ecstatic it’s finally getting out there in and nervous that it won’t be well received or won’t be read at all.

Details on where to buy it can be found here.

The second story in the trilogy, Larnasia’s Queen, will be out towards the end of August/beginning of September. The final instalment in the trilogy will be released in November.

It’s a terrifying thing to put your work out there when you’ve poured your whole heart and soul into it but here goes!

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Busy, busy, busy…

The writing bug bit again and I’m busier than ever.

Currently working on plotting/planning four different stories to see which one grabs my full attention… They all seem to be vying for dominance at the moment so it’ll be interesting to see which is the victor.

I abandoned the story I was toying with because it wasn’t flowing right – it’s now reinvented itself into one of the above ideas so we’ll see if it works second time around.

I’ve also made a decision about the YA fantasy trilogy I’ve had written for the best part of a decade gathering dust on my laptop: I’m going to self-publish it!

As it’s different to everything I’m working on now, and was written so long ago, I’m doing a vigorous edit and rewrite/polish and then will release it a story at a time this year under a pen-name (GR Taylor for anyone interested.) I’ll list it on the website as and when it’s available, too.

And that’s where life has taken me since I last posted in mid-March! It’s a lot to do and there’s limited time to do it – in non-writing news, I’m starting a degree through my day job in June so not quite sure how everything’s going to fall into place but we’ll see what happens.

Happy writing!

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Hello

I can’t quite believe we’re here in mid-March and this is only the second post I’ve made this year.

While I ended 2017 on a creative high, and have had a huge amount of ideas between then and now, I’m a little bit lost.

Lost.

That’s a word I’ve used a lot recently because it’s the only one I can think of to describe how I’m feeling.

I’ve read 9 books this year, some I’ve loved and some I haven’t, but I’ve written no more than 4000 words. I’m lost, I’m tired, I have the ideas but not the motivation to follow them through.

I can’t even blame the rejection from one of the publishers I sent the first LWL novel to, because this feeling started long before that email arrived and, to be honest, I was kind of relieved to receive it?

I’ve heard the term ‘writers winter’ bandied about on a couple of groups I lurk in: it’s apparently a known phenomenon that every so often, writers go through a sparse spell, where they struggle to get the words on a page, whether it be on screen or in a notepad. It’s a small comfort to know other writers go through this because mostly I’m just wanting it to be over.

It’s not like writers’ block. WIth writers’ block, I usually find switching it up a little – writing by hand, using a prompt generate, using write or die etc. – generally works to get over it.

This… This is something different.

To any writers out there reading this, how do you break your writers winters? Or do you simply just keep yourself busy in other areas and wait for them to pass?