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Hello, and welcome to my website ~ here you will get a view on my books and life as a published author. It’s been a long journey to getting here ~ finally I am now writing full time and hope you enjoy what you find here. If you want to get in touch, follow the links, and I’ll get back to you soon.

Susan Jones writes romantic drama with a touch of humour, and historical sagas as Lydia King. She lives in North Warwickshire, and loves walking through the beautiful woodlands where she lives, and gardening and reading are her pastimes.

Writing Update

Now at last, I can say I’ve put THE END on the last chapter of Hats off to Love. Now all I need to do is prepare it in an orderly fashion for sending out.

That will take some time as I want to get it just right. This story has been kicking around since 2012, when I entered a competition and came on the shorlist. Then I did nano in 2013 with it to get it all scribbled down, and then entered the same comptetion in 2014, and came on the shorlist again.

When I got stuck half way through, I set up a yahoo group for other people writing a novel, to get some feedback. Thanks to Jan, complete with hat, and Patsy and Martin, also with hat, for your help. Not forgetting the lovely Christine, who left the group.

So you can imagine how thrilled I am to have completed it.

Jan in a hatPatsy CollinsMartin West

The story has been edited by Maureen Vincent Northam, who has her ‘Trace Your Roots’ book published on Friday. Great news that Maureen will be my guest on this blog then.

Hope you have a great week, see you on Friday, until then, hope the writing goes well. Only thing now is to find a publisher. Wonder who’s looking for a romantic story? Set in the seventies, in rural Warwickshire?

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12 responses to “Writing Update”

  1. Sally Jenkins Avatar
    Sally Jenkins

    Fingers crossed for you, Susan! I’m sure you’ll let us know when you find a publisher/agent!

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    1. susanjanejones Avatar
      susanjanejones

      Ha ha, you’ll hear me all the way from our house to yours, Sally, thanks for your crossed fingers.

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  2. rosgemmell Avatar
    rosgemmell

    Wishing you loads of success with finding a publisher, Suzy. You could maybe try Accent Press, Tirgearr (one of my publishers), Crooked Cat (my other publisher) if they’re still open to submissions.

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    1. susanjanejones Avatar
      susanjanejones

      Thanks for your kind words, Rosemary, and I’ll put those names on my list of suspects. Thank you, I’ll let you know how I get on.

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  3. Christine Howe Avatar
    Christine Howe

    Congratulations on having got to THE END. I enjoyed reading your early chapters. Such a warm story! Good luck with it, Susan.

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  4. susanjanejones Avatar
    susanjanejones

    Hey, it’s my lovely novel writing buddy, Christine, so great to see you on my blog. Thanks for all your invaluable help with feedback and suggestions. You made a difference, and will be the first to know when someone snaps it up. See my positive thinking:)) Thanks for the luck as well.

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  5. Ruth Livingstone Avatar
    Ruth Livingstone

    Congratulations Susan. I know what a tremendous achievement it is to just FINISH a novel. So, well done! Now the really hard part comes: getting it published 🙂

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  6. susanjanejones Avatar
    susanjanejones

    I know you’re right, Ruth. Now I’m looking forward to starting on the follow up book, and hope it doesn’t take so long to put together as the first one. Perhaps I’d better find a publisher for book one first though:))

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  7. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    Good luck with it!

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  8. susanjanejones Avatar
    susanjanejones

    Thanks, Linda. I think we all need a smidgen of luck along the way.

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  9. Jan Baynham Avatar
    Jan Baynham

    Congratulations on finishing and seeing the magic words ‘The End’, Sue! Sending you loads of luck with the next stage of approaching agents and publishers. Great to hear that book 2 is in the pipeline. 🙂

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    1. susanjanejones Avatar
      susanjanejones

      Thanks, Jan. An element of luck is important I think, but hard work is how it gets done, and putting my mind to it.

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