Some good news for a change
Hello everyone – a whole bundle of good news today.
In no particular order – I’ve just had my first vaccination. I wandered in, loaded down with potential reading matter, several notebooks and pens, some biscuits and an expectation of being in there for hours.
Well, that didn’t happen. I was straight in, clothes on the floor – you know what I mean – stabbed in the arm, into the waiting room for a bit of a really not needed sit-down and then released back into the wild.
Everyone was bright and cheerful – even me – and really well organised. I was so impressed. And then a lovely walk home along the canal in the wintry sunshine. And sausages for lunch to look forward to.
More good news – I’ve signed another a contract with Headline. The usual stuff. I offer them my soul and they publish another three of my books. We have:
Untitled St Mary’s 13 – published June 2022
Untitled Time Police 4 – published April 2023
Untitled Elizabeth Cage 4 – published April 2024
Together with the traditional Christmas stories, of course, and anything else I might feel like scribbling in the meantime.
The third bit of good news – for me that is – is the arrival of my sales figures up to the end of December. I don’t normally mention them but they are so utterly brilliant I felt I just had to say a huge thank you to everyone who has ever bought one of my books. Thank you so much. For an author there is no greater pleasure than curling up on the sofa, tea and chocolate within easy reach, and gloating over her sales figures. And just so we’re all clear – there was gloating. Massive gloating. World class epic gloating. And quite a lot of chocolate as well.
So thank you everyone for enabling my chocolate habit.
That’s it for today – I hope everyone gets their vaccinations soon and it all goes as smoothly as mine. And the weather will get warmer. And Another Time Another Place is out this coming April. In fact, I’m using the proofs for a footrest as I type – don’t tell Headline.
Happy Thursday everyone – and now I should get back to work. On the other hand – sausages for lunch!
Looking forward to new reading material, having read all the existing. In fact, if I ever get back to the UK, I mean to spend a few days in Rushfordshire, possibly staying at the Red Lion. (Is there any sort of decent bus or rail connection with Salcott St Mary’s, Orfordshire, which is also on the list? (It’s not like the Ordnance Survey to let me down like this.)
I feel we may be kindred spirits. Thank you for the absolute BEST books for escaping reality.
As a regular contributor to your chocolate habit, Jodie, I’m delighted to have the opportunity to carry on giving! Please don’t ever stop writing. I wish St. Mary’s were real and I wish I worked there.
I discovered your books on Audible during lockdown here in New Jersey. They were a recommend for fans of Douglas Adams and Jasper Fford. I’ve listened to everything Audible in the US had to offer, so I take credit for a teensy tiny bit of the the gloating… and chocolate. Oh, and congrats on the vax!
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