A new addition to the family

I'd like to introduce a soon-to-be resident of the Jam Factory.

His name is Griffin and... awwwwwwww I got distracted by the cuteness. Sorry.

I'll be bringing him home in a few weeks and let's just say I'M A LITTLE BIT EXCITED! *does excited puppy dance*

Confession time

OK. Here goes. Deep breath.

I haven't written in ages. And I do mean aaaaaages. So much for being a writing demon this year, eh? Sure, I have my excuses reasons. There was the launch of ENTANGLED and then the book tour and then the whole moving house malarkey. But there's really no excuse. I could have found the time to write if I'd really wanted to. But I just... didn't.

Now I'm settling in at the Jam Factory. I have my lovely shiny new desk (it's BIG). I have my Wall of Books. There's a natty red desk lamp on its way. The cats are settling in well. SO WHY CAN'T I WRITE?! Or rather, why don't I want to?

Harrumph.

Little house on the prairie (except not ACTUALLY on a prairie)

Apologies for my absence. I have been moving house. I am writing this post sitting at my shiny new desk, looking out onto the front garden. Behind me is my Wall of Bookshelves. There are no actual books on the shelves yet, but that situation will be rectified today.

Random things that happened this week:

1. My neighbour gave me some leeks from her garden...
2. ... and I made soup.
3. I talked to a fat squirrel.
4. I drank gin and tonic in the sunshine.
5. I accumulated four mysterious bruises and two bloody knuckles.
6. I used a spade and a strange claw-like tool to do some weeding in the garden.
7. I cried when I saw how lovely the new flooring looks. Don't laugh.

What random things have you been up to this week?

The Demi-Monde and The Jam Factory

Thanks for all your lovely comments about TORN. In all the madness surrounding ENTANGLED I keep forgetting that I have this other book coming out next year. Lots of people have been asking me if it's a sequel to ENTANGLED and I hope they're not too disappointed when I tell them it's not. I must admit though, these questions have got me thinking about the characters and what happens to them after the last page of ENTANGLED. But for now... I'm saying nothing.

Here's a book recommendation for you. It's a book for grown-ups! I haven't quite finished it yet, but I am loving it and I think the premise is mind-blowingly awesome. The description below is from Amazon. Click on the cover to take you there.

EXPERIENCE THE ULTIMATE IN VIRTUAL REALITY.



The Demi-Monde is the most advanced computer simulation ever devised. Created to prepare soldiers for the nightmarish reality of urban warfare, it is a virtual world locked in eternal civil war. Its thirty million digital inhabitants are ruled by duplicates of some of history's cruellest tyrants: Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the Holocaust; Beria, Stalin's arch executioner; Torquemada, the pitiless Inquisitor General; Robespierre, the face of the Reign of Terror.


But something has gone badly wrong inside the Demi-Monde, and the US President's daughter has become trapped in this terrible world. It falls to eighteen-year-old Ella Thomas to rescue her, yet once Ella has entered the Demi-Monde she finds that everything is not as it seems, that its cyber-walls are struggling to contain the evil within and that the Real World is in more danger than anyone realises.

HOW GOOD DOES THIS SOUND?!

In other news, I'm moving into my new house (a.k.a. The Jam Factory) this week. I'm currently wavering between panic and excitement. So. Much. To. Do. But I'm going to have my own front door and a stripey rug in the hall and a couple of vegetable patches in the garden. That's what I have to focus on (rather than the chaotic lists of Things To Remember and Very Important Stuff).

I hope this week is treating you all kindly.