For about a year now, I’ve been looking after this blog, posting wonderful excerpts and articles from other fiction authors, sharing news and new releases, and sprinkling this with my own observations about the book industry and the business of writing. It’s been a really interesting time, but at the end of February, I’ll stop doing all of this.

There’s a bit of a reshuffle going on, so a new blogger will take the helm here and I’ll leave it for them to make their own introductions and bring their own approaches and style to this space. Meanwhile the fiction imprints will keep bringing you unusual and original writing.

I’ll no doubt post the odd book industry observation on my own blog – www.druidlife.wordpress.com if you’re inclined to follow me. I suspect I’m going to be sending in the odd piece for Writer’s Wheel as well – http://writerswheel.com/magazine/ - the free creative writing magazine from Compass Books.

It’s a funny industry, this one. I didn’t set out to be a professional blogger – although it’s a job I’ve very much enjoyed. I set out to be a novelist. I’ve had some novels published, but have ended up writing non-fiction, graphic novels, I’ve been an editor and a writer of magazine articles, and I spend a lot of my day-job hours happily selling other people’s books. This year I’ve become a colourist – another thing I did not see coming.

I’ve made a life, a career of sorts, a living certainly out of just saying yes to things. Often when I’ve had no idea what I was doing. I’ve said yes to custom fiction, to press officer work (basically telling stories that happen to be real) to blogging, to colouring and to whatever comes next. I’ve just said yes to doing some other in at the deep end, out of my comfort zone learn by doing it sort of work, and I’m excited to be moving on to new things. It’s not untypical of the life of an author. Many of us do all kinds of things quietly and behind the scenes, and I hope I’ve managed to shed some light on that in interesting ways over this last year.

Thank you for reading, for wandering in here while I’ve been writing and sharing, and I hope to connect with you somewhere else along the way. May you be blessed with fantastic books that take you to places you’ve never dreamed of, satisfy your deepest desires and inspire you to do glorious things!

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