Sarah’s Writing Blog

I have a writing buddy. We challenge each other, we compete and we also support each other in our writing. But we write in very different ways and an email from NaNo made me think about it this morning.

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November is here and I’m writing like a mad thing again. It’s day nine today and the NaNoWriMo forums have slowly come back up to speed after being clogged with the surge of new sign ups and heavy load that always happens during the first week or so.

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More LolCats

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There is a signed, hard back, dust jacket edition of The Portal Between up for grabs on the Mumzone forums.  Just answer a simple question and your name goes in the draw. One lucky winner will be drawn at random from the correct entries.

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I’m in the process of preparing The Portal Sundered for release now and I have some choices to make. Want to help?

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Sales figures for August are in and The Portal Between is still averaging between 5 and 7 copies sold every month since appearing on Amazon and being generally available.

It’s not millions but it’s a start and everyone has to start somewhere. and hopefully the release of the second book in the series, The Portal Sundered, will boost numbers in a couple of months.

The kids team read medals and last lot of stickers, a couple of books each for them, a ten minute sit down in the middle of shopping ……. and this…… (more…)

There are now four reviews on Amazon and they’re ALL good!

Sarah’s book moves from the cosiness of day to day life into the realms of magic and back again with characters so well brought to life that you can see them (well I can !!). I am very much looking forward to the next book Fiona xxx

Thanks Fiona.

But Gillian’s eyes are green. I think, certainly not the ice blue I had in my head for Lily. How much would it matter? Her hair isn’t quite right either. But just look at the expression, look at the eyes - isn’t that just stunning?

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Hypothetically, what if someone, one day wants to make the Portal Series into films? Or one of those BBC drama mini-series?

Starting with Lily first as she is the central point for the entire saga…..

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