{"id":434,"date":"2015-11-04T14:26:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T14:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=434"},"modified":"2015-11-04T16:25:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T16:25:42","slug":"one-year-on-and-i-cant-stop-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"One year on and I can’t stop writing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday (7 November) marks my first anniversary as an indie-published children’s author <\/strong>(and, coincidentally, my beautiful great niece’s first birthday). So woohoo<\/strong> on both counts!<\/p>\n

I can’t believe it’s 12 months since I published\u00a0Hairy Fairy,\u00a0<\/em>or that I have managed to publish two more books –\u00a0Isabella, Rotten Speller\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Jamie and the Joke Factory\u00a0<\/em>since then. (Just in case you were under the impression I am frighteningly prolific, I should point out that Hairy Fairy\u00a0<\/i>was actually written back in 2012 and\u00a0Isabella, Rotten Speller in 2013\/14,\u00a0<\/em>though I did manage to complete\u00a0Jamie and the Joke Factory<\/em>, from start to finish, this year.)<\/p>\n

The best thing about having published books, available to buy from Amazon (among others), is that it somehow, at least in my own eyes, legitimises the time I spend on my writing and colouring in. I no longer feel I have to be secretive and apologetic about it. It’s what I do. It’s my job (albeit a not particularly well paid one!)<\/p>\n

Since finishing \u00a0Jamie and the Joke Factory,<\/em> I have been trying to address that last issue by sharpening up on my marketing. To be fair, I was starting from a position of almost zero effort, so it’s not much to my credit that I can say I have made some progress over the last few weeks.<\/p>\n

I had actually resolved to concentrate entirely<\/strong> on marketing between now and Christmas…<\/p>\n

But yesterday I dug out the story I started, and then got stuck on, back in the summer and realised I know how to move it on after all. So I’m afraid that marketing will once again be taking a backseat (though I’ll try not to ignore it altogether!) as I am now going to try very hard to complete the first draft of my next book before Christmas, ready to start with the pictures early in the new year.<\/p>\n

\"little<\/a><\/p>\n

In case you’re wondering, it’s going to be my first ever sequel (if you see what I mean), following the further adventures of my little witch, Isabella. I’m very excited about it!<\/p>\n

So I think it’s time I stopped doing this and started doing that. I am very much looking forward to my second year as an indie-published author and illustrator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday (7 November) marks my first anniversary as an indie-published children’s author (and, coincidentally, my beautiful great niece’s first birthday). So woohoo on both counts! I can’t believe it’s 12 months since I published\u00a0Hairy Fairy,\u00a0or that I have managed to publish two more books –\u00a0Isabella, Rotten Speller\u00a0and\u00a0Jamie and the Joke Factory\u00a0since then. (Just in case […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}