We booked a family holiday!!!

It sounds like such a silly thing to blog about, but we haven't been away for over a year, and this time, we splashed out and decided we should go to Center Parcs. Wowza. We're going on a grown-up family holiday, lol. Usually, we collate all the pennies we have and decide what we need to sacrifice to have a good time. We've thrown caution to the wind this time :) Nothing will be sacrificed!!!

In other, more work-related news, the proof copies of my paperbacks have arrived and YEY! - they look REALLY good :D Will be reading in the cafe with a giant coffee within half an hour...

Cry Of The Wolf (Eye Of The Storm #2)

I'm so pleased to say that the ARCs are picking up some great reviews at the moment - I hope all my readers enjoy it just as much :)

There will be a couple of chances to win some signed paperback copies via some review blogs, so look out for that from release day.

I've been thinking about the third book, Heart Of The Wolf. Thinking about it, but not dwelling on it just yet. I'm switching modes to write The Last Dragon (which I've also been thinking about, and freaking out slightly over, but then I always freak out when I write a new book of a series, so to speak... But this one won't just be a new book - it'll be the LAST book...).

I'm going to leave it there and get on with the paperback proofing.

FAMILY HOLIDAY!!! I am so looking forward to getting away into pampered surroundings to a bit :)

Have a great weekend, everyone.

Dianna x

"Away" from work.

I have a nice five days "away" from work, although even as I say this, I'm sort of laughing to myself, because my head never stops buzzing with characters and plot.

I won't be online so much over the next week.

I literally CANNOT WAIT for The Demon Bride to come out. All my other projects sort of feel like they're on standstill until this book is released, and if I was in any doubt before, I am now certain that I am a linear writer: it's next to impossible for me to write two books at once. I can sort of do it a little, but not really. And the book that I am writing, I need to write in order. I can't write chapter one, then chapter twenty, then back to a scene that will probably fit somewhere in the middle.

This is why writing The Demon Bride was a killer for me: I had to keep going back to previous scenes to fit things in after almost every chapter. I wanted to be linear - the book didn't want to be written that way, lol.

But I digress... am I ever really away from work? No. I'm not. I don't know if I can be, and I'm not sure why. I've always been very "in my head". I've always felt solitary, even when surrounded by people. I don't ever think I really come out of my head. I don't know if it's a good thing or not. Sometimes I think it is, and sometimes I think it isn't.

What about you? Are you in your head all the time? Does "real life" bring you out? Are you happy to be out? Do you find real life all shades of mundane, or do you find it enriches your writing? (<--- I believe this is how it should be, not that it always is, lol...)

Lastly, take a look at the blog post I wrote yesterday on my own blog. In relation to the above, and in an attempt to live in the real world a bit more, I am making my Facebook profile dormant... it will be a testing time, but I always look forward to a challenge!